Scott Green will head the Pro Bowl crew from Hawaii on Sunday. As the sun sets on paradise, so will also end Green’s 23-year NFL career. Side judge Larry Rose is retiring after the game, also. The Pro Bowl assignment goes to officials that did not have a postseason game, although five members of this…
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Terry McAulay gets Super Bowl XLVIII nod, 3rd in career
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The NFL has announced that Terry McAulay will be the referee for Super Bowl XLVIII on Feb. 2. This will be McAulay’s third Super Bowl ring in his 16th NFL season. McAulay previously worked Super Bowls XXXIX (Patriots-Eagles, 2004 season) and XLIII (Steelers-Cardinals, 2008), both as a referee. McAulay was a conference championship game referee…
Assignments, Playoffs
Conference Championship referees set: Corrente for AFC, Steratore for NFC
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Tony Corrente will head the AFC title game. Gene Steratore will head the NFC game.
Assignments, Playoffs
Corrente, Steratore likely to head Conference Championship crews
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Earlier this week, we narrowed the field of potential conference championship referees down to five. Through multiple sources with knowledge of the grading and the assignment process, Football Zebras has now reduced that number to two. It is not known which conference title game will go to whom, but our sources indicate that Tony Corrente…
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Boger, Carey, Parry out of playoffs
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In an attempt to narrow down potential assignments, Football Zebras has learned from multiple sources that last year’s Super Bowl referee, Jerome Boger, did not receive a playoff assignment this season. Also not receiving an assignment are Mike Carey and John Parry. Missing the playoffs the year following a Super Bowl assignment is not unprecedented.…
Assignments, Playoffs
Referee assignments for Divisional round: Blakeman, Cheffers, McAulay, Morelli
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Clete Blakeman, Carl Cheffers, Terry McAulay, and Pete Morelli are the referees in the Divisional Playoffs.
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Referee assignments for Wild Card games: Anderson, Vinovich, Triplette, Hochuli
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Football Zebras has confirmed the officiating crews for the Wild Card weekend. Officials are listed with their uniform number, years experience (including this season), the crew each official worked with in the regular season (by the referee’s name), college, and outside occupation. All times are Eastern. Three alternates are assigned to each game: one is…
Assignments, Week 17
Week 17 referee assignments
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It’s the final week of the regular season, and the officials will take the field not knowing if they are working their last game until August. The later playoff games are released to the officials after the Wild Card games. The Sunday night game is the NFC East play-in game between the Eagles and the…
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Week 16 referee assignments
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Walt Coleman — seen here during the Falcons-Seahawks divisional playoff game last season — will oversee the Falcons as they visit the 49ers in the final game in Candlestick Park. Coleman was the referee for a 2011 game at The Stick when the lights went out. Jeff Triplette’s crew has the week off. Sunday, Dec.…
Assignments, Week 15
Week 15 referee assignments
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Bill Vinovich will handle Thursday night duties this week, the final NFL Network game of the season. All 17 crews have worked the 17 Thursday games (including the kickoff and Thanksgiving games) this season. John Parry’s crew has the week off. We haven’t confirmed all of the assignments, and we will update this post as…