Have you all seen this column by markbreit

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Originally posted by JRutledge
Not everyone is hired from NFL Europe. Many are hired directly from D1 conferences. The Big Ten and the MAC have many officials that came from those conferences.

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Dommer1 is correct. Nowadays they all will do at least one stint in NFL Europe before NFL. I know that from 3 current sources in the NFL. That doesn't mean a whole year necessarily. Often they will go over for a couple of 2-3 week stints and get in 3-4 games each time.