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Maia Chaka will begin refereeing NFL games during the league’s upcoming 102nd season.


out of that pool of 4,000. The 21 has now grown to a larger number — closer to 30 or so — but pretty much the criteria are [that] you have to show promise and have a lot of potential. You have to be coachable. Obviously, you have to have a good under- standing of the game of football, and you have to be excelling on the level that you’re currently working. At the time, I was working for [NCAA Division I] Conference USA, and I just finished working at my first bowl game. Obviously, there was something that they saw in me that they liked, and they


wanted to just bring me into the program and train me and work with me. I really can’t pinpoint exactly what the formula is and why the NFL chooses who they choose to be a part of the program. I just know that they just look for solid officials. You have to be solid both on the field and off the field.


VB: When you go to training, how much time does it take out of your regular, everyday life? Chaka: Pretty much once the spring hits, you have to prepare for July. All this is


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before the season even starts. Like, the football season itself doesn’t really start until August, when they really start going pre-season, but after you go to [a training] clinic, you’re sent to a training camp. At the training camp, you work a pre-season game. Once you finish your pre-season game, you now go back and work your college season. That goes from August all the way up until December and January. At the end of your college season, you’re invited to come back and work for the College Football All-Star Game [in late January].


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