FAA ground stop could cause havoc with officials getting to games, per report
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The Federal Aviation Administration ordering a nationwide ground stop on Friday night “due to extraordinary circumstances” has carryover just about everywhere, including the world of college football as the sport gets ready for Week 11.
But in addition to the teams themselves being hampered in getting to their proper destinations, there is another problem looming for college football.
What about the game officials?
With the SEC having 3 teams listed in flight limbo, according to ESPN insider Pete Thamel — Ole Miss, as well as Tennessee and Texas — Thamel also reported later Friday that game officials who are scheduled to work all of these games on Saturday could have serious issues now getting to their destinations for Week 11.
Thamel posted on his social media just after reporting about the 3 SEC teams as well as many others being held up that the game officials’ issue is a whole separate issue that could make for more chaos in college football.
“Another issue to track here will be officials. They tend to fly in the day before. There could be a scramble for officials or crews compromised by travel,” Thamel reported.
While the Rebels, Volunteers and Longhorns are held up in trying to get to their road games on Friday, Thamel wanted to point out amid the college football chaos there are the needed people who wear the black and white strips.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
