NFC Championship
We will be live blogging the calls and rules interpretations from the Giants-49ers game.
If you have any questions or comments, use the comments section of this post, or tweet us @footballzebras.
Today’s crew is headed by Ed Hochuli. His crew contains members from other officiating squads that were rating in the top three this season. The full crew list is at the bottom of this post.
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Today’s officials, listed with their regular season crew chief:
- R — #85 Ed Hochuli (22nd year, 20th as referee)
- U — #81 Roy Ellison (9th year, Walt Coleman)
- HL — #28 Mark Hittner (15th year, Hochuli)
- LJ — #35 John Hussey (10th year, Pete Morelli)
- FJ — #4 Craig Wrolstad (9th year, Hochuli)
- SJ — #39 Don Carlsen (23rd year, Morelli)
- BJ — #46 Perry Paganelli (14th year, John Parry)
- Alternates — Jeff Triplette (#42, R), Jimmy DeBell (#58, SJ from Alberto Riverón’s crew)
I have a question regarding the flubbed punt last night… Was the giants player recovering the ball eligible since he did run out of bounds down the sideline and the first one to possess the ball?
Rule is first one to touch the ball.