{"id":842794,"date":"2026-03-30T12:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/842794\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T12:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:28:15","slug":"art-rooney-ii-wary-of-new-nfl-rule-proposals-that-could-slow-down-game-definitely-have-some-reservations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/842794\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Rooney II Wary Of New NFL Rule Proposals That Could Slow Down Game: ‘Definitely Have Some Reservations’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steelers owner Art Rooney II has long opposed new NFL rules that slow down games. He\u2019s wary of the league\u2019s latest proposal. At the league meeting this week, the owners will consider whether to expand New York\u2019s reach over micro-officiating games. And he has some thoughts\u2014and reservations\u2014about that, as he told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette\u2019s Gerry Dulac<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s kind of crossing a new line there, in terms of allowing New York to put a flag on the field\u201d, Rooney told Dulac about the NFL\u2019s proposal. \u201cSo far, we have not done that, and we\u2019ve had discussions about not wanting to do that. So we\u2019re taking a step across a new line doing that\u201d.<\/p>\n

Rooney said he wants to hear the NFL and competition committee\u2019s arguments regarding the new proposal. Even so, he made it very clear that he is hesitant to see the league take this step. \u201cI definitely have some reservations about that one\u201d.<\/p>\n

There are two rule proposals the NFL is considering concerning officiating<\/a> regarding which Art Rooney may have reservations. One is a more general proposal that would essentially allow NFL headquarters to throw a flag for flagrant fouls and non-football acts. This would apply to the Steelers\u2019 DK Metcalf situation in Detroit. Because on-field officials did not flag the incident, the league was unable to order an ejection. This proposal would allow New York to intervene, throw the flag, and eject Metcalf<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The NFL\u2019s other proposal, I suspect, Rooney fears may become a permanent rule. As of now, the league is framing it as a one-year trial rule predicated on there being an officiating lockout. In the event the league has to use replacement officials, the rule would allow the NFL to \u201ccorrect clear and obvious misses made by on-field officials that impact the game\u201d.<\/p>\n

In 2012, the NFL experienced a work stoppage for officials that bled into the regular season. Several high-profile blown calls were highlighted that year until we reached the \u201cFail Mary\u201d play, which coaxed the NFL into rushing back to the negotiating table and hammering out the loose ends of a new collective bargaining agreement with the NFLRA.<\/p>\n

This offseason, especially with these rule proposals, the NFL is already going full-court press against the NFLRA. In case you didn\u2019t notice, that CBA is set to expire. The league has already employed its most loyal media personalities to push its narrative and leak its intention to begin hiring scab officials before the CBA actually expires. But Rooney\u2019s concerns about the NFL\u2019s rule proposals seem to be more fundamental to the game itself.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt could definitely impact some of these things we\u2019ve done with the idea that it would improve pace of play,\u201d, he said. \u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019ve really shortened the game in a meaningful way recently. That is a concern in terms of, just for me at least, I don\u2019t want to see more flags on the field than we have now. I would hope that if we cross this line and go down this road, it would be kind of a rare use of that new rule\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steelers owner Art Rooney II has long opposed new NFL rules that slow down games. He\u2019s wary of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[4393,7,6,520,57,2360,426],"class_list":{"0":"post-842794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-art-rooney-ii","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","13":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","14":"tag-steelers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116318129756414340","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}