'You can battle through things': First woman NFL ref chronicles challenges in new book


Shannon Eastin, the first woman game official in the NFL, describes in her new book, Lady Ref: Making Calls in a Man’s World, one of the ugliest scenes of workplace sexual harassment I’ve ever heard. It happened before her appointment to the NFL but it’s remarkable in its disgustingness, and also instructive because she’s likely far from alone in facing discrimination as a woman game official. She’s just one of the few women to publicly talk about it.

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