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Looks Like The NFL Is Finally Hiring A Female Official

 |  By Maxwell Strachan

Posted: 04/03/2015 12:12 pm EDT Updated: 04/03/2015 1:59 pm EDT

pin_icon_onhover.pngSARAH THOMAS
Line judge Sarah Thomas blows her whistle to stop the clock during the second half Little Caesars Pizza Bowl NCAA college football game between Marshall and Ohio Saturday, Dec. 26, 2009, in Detroit. Thomas is one of five women officiating in major college football, but Pizza Bowl spokesman Tim Moore said she was the first to draw an assignment for a Bowl Subdivision postseason game. (AP Photo/Duane Burleson) | ASSOCIATED PRESS
 
 
 

Aaron Wilson of The Baltimore Sun reports that the NFL has hired Sarah Thomas as an official, the first female official in the league’s history.

The NFL has had its eyes on Thomas for some time, and she has already participated in the league’s officiating development program and worked preseason games. By the time she takes the field for a regular season game, it will have been nearly 20 years since her career began.

"She was in our pipeline for a while," NFL VP of officiating Dean Blandino said in 2013, according to CBS Sports.

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Sarah Thomas, right, walks off the field after a Cleveland Browns mandatory minicamp practice on Thursday, June 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

Thomas is an accomplished official who already holds the honor of being the first woman to ever officiate an NCAA football game, in 2007, and NCAA bowl game, in 2009. But last summer she said she simply wished to be treated not as a trailblazer, but as an official.

"Being raised with brothers, I'm just one of the guys, I guess," she said at the time. "I don't try to be one of the guys. I am a female, but I don't look at myself as just a female. I look at myself as an official. With their respect and the respect that I have for them, it just doesn't feel like it's a male-dominated profession."

In all likelihood, there will be bumps along the way, similar to earlier this year when Chris Paul implied that NBA referee Lauren Holtkamp was maybe out of her league after she called a technical foul on him with which he disagreed. And then there’s stuff like this, which has already been written about Thomas herself:

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Another woman, Shannon Eastin, has officiated a regular season NFL game before, in 2012. But she was a replacement when the NFL locked out the regular officials.

UPDATE -- 1:55 p.m.: Welp.



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I'm impressed that she is that knowledgeable. I bet she will be a good official. Women are very detail oriented.

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