GPFOA

🚨 Update!
The GPFOA website now has the new Preseason Training Tape from PIAA Rules Interpreter Dave Blair.

www.gpfoa.org

PIAA Preseason Bulletin released with pertinent information ahead of tomorrow's scrimmages and next week's Week 0 games!

www.piaa.org

🏈 Need new GPFOA gear? Now’s the time!

Check out the 2025 GPFOA Sports Locker for official apparel and accessories:
👉 https://sportslocker.chipply.com/GPFOA2025/?action=viewall

Orders will be delivered to your home—expected mid-September. Don’t miss it!

With the season right around the corner, make sure to visit www.gpfoa.org for updates on leagues, meeting schedules, and everything you need to know!

Greater Pittsburgh Football Officials Association Good luck to all players, coaches, and officials as the 2025 season kicks off!

Congratulations to Jen Burke, who launched her officiating career as a member of GPFOA, on her assignment to the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl!

It's official: Hampton resident Jen Berke, a mother of 2, enjoys making the calls on football Saturdays - Pittsburgh Union Progress Jen Berke’s children have never thought twice about what their mother does on the weekends in the fall. For 11-year-old Mikayla and 9-year-old Calvin, having their mother don her black-and-white striped uniform to officiate NCAA football games is merely a fact of life. “For the first many years,...

Tips are still available for both boards. Purchase yours today to support GPFOA!

Last call! The GPFOA apparel store will close tomorrow at 11am. Get your orders in before the store is closed.

Traffic update! Plan ahead and be prepared for your route to your game tonight.

An important traffic advisory from PennDOT!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 24, 2023

Southbound I-79 Bridge Work Friday Night in Aleppo Township

Local Lane Detour at Emsworth/Sewickley Exit 66 Interchange


Pittsburgh, PA – PennDOT District 11 is announcing bridge work on southbound I-79 in Aleppo Township, Allegheny County, will occur Friday night, August 25 weather permitting.

Bridge parapet and approach slab work will occur on southbound I-79 at the southbound bridge over Glenfield Road from 7 p.m. Friday night to 11 a.m. Saturday morning. Southbound I-79 will close between the Emsworth/Sewickley Route 65 (Exit 66) off-ramp and the Neville Island Bridge. To allow the work to occur, southbound I-79 traffic in the local (right-hand lane) will be detoured at the Emsworth/Sewickley Route 65 (Exit 66) interchange. All southbound I-79 through traffic should use the express lane.


Local Lane Detour
From southbound I-79, all traffic will take the Emsworth/Sewickley Route 65 (Exit 66) off-ramp
Turn left onto Glenfield Road
Continue straight onto Kilbuck Street
Turn right onto Deer Run Road
Turn left onto the ramp to southbound I-79
End detour

Back by request is the GPFOA store. Get your apparel today. Included in the store is uniform approved items and items to wear around town. Don’t wait, the store closes at 11am on August 27!

https://sportslocker.chipply.com/GPFOA2023/

There are times when it is appropriate to watch the ball and the player controlling it, but many times, it’s vital to transition your eyes away from the ball and watch other immediate action.

Ball-Watching Afflicts Veterans and Newer Officials Alike - Referee.com Two mistakes that football officials make are ball-watching and officiating air. Both problems afflict veterans and newer officials alike.

Tips are still available for both! Support GPFOA, our membership, and student athletes across the WPIAL

GPFOA’s state rules meeting willl be held tonight at Montour High School in the cafeteria. The meeting will begin promptly at 7 p.m. and will review the changes and points of emphasis for the 2023 season.