Football Zebras commentary
Our annual tradition is to predict which referees are assigned to the postseason and the Pro Bowl. As we find every year, there tends to be a razor-thin line at the playoff cut, so an omission on this list does not necessarily mean we thought the referee was not worthy of a playoff assignment. We simply ran out of room.
You can see how we did in previous years (2014, 2013, and 2012), and feel free to make your own predictions in the comments section below.
| Ben Austro | Mark Schultz | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Super Bowl | Walt Coleman | Walt Anderson | ||
| Conference Championship | Tony Corrente | Tony Corrente | ||
| Bill Vinovich | Ed Hochuli | |||
| Divisional Playoffs | Clete Blakeman | Brad Allen | ||
| Walt Coleman | Walt Anderson | |||
| Terry McAulay | Carl Cheffers | |||
| Craig Wrolstad | Terry McAulay | |||
| Wild Card Playoffs | Carl Cheffers | Walt Coleman | ||
| Ed Hochuli | Gene Steratore | |||
| John Parry | Ron Torbert | |||
| Ron Torbert | Bill Vinovich | |||
| Pro Bowl | Jeff Triplette | Clete Blakeman | (1) | |
| 36 | 30 | |||
Scoring
We will score the predictions as follows: 5 points for a correctly slotted referee, 3 points for selections off by a round, 2 for two rounds, 1 for three rounds, and 1 point each for a Pro Bowl guess who works the playoffs and a playoff guess who works the Pro Bowl.
Super Bowl: Carl Cheffers
Conference Championship: Bill Vinovich, Walt Anderson
Division Playoffs: Gene Steratore, Walt Coleman, John Parry, Brad Allen
Wild Card Playoffs: Ron Torbert, Clete Blakeman, Terry McAulay, Tony Corrente
Pro Bowl: Jerome Boger
My predictions:
Super Bowl: Tony Corrente
Conf. Championship: Cheffers and McAulay
Divisional:Corrente, Vinovich, Coleman, Blakeman
Wild Card: Anderson, Hochuli, Parry, Steratore
Pro Bowl: Morelli
Super Bowl: Clete Blakeman
Conference Champ: McAulay, Parry
Division Round: Blakeman, Hochuli, Anderson, Coleman
Wild Card: Steratore, Corrente, Cheffers, Wrolstad
Pro Bowl: Peter Morelli
Super Bowl: Corrente
Conference Championship: McAulay, Anderson
Divisional: Cheffers, Blakeman, Coleman, Corrente
Wildcard: Hochuli, Parry, Torbert, Vinovich
Pro Bowl: Morelli
Super Bowl: Walt Anderson
Conf. Championships: Allen and McAulay
Divisional Weekend: Anderson, Cheffers, Corrente, Wrolstad
Wild Card Weekend: Blakeman, Coleman, Parry, Torbert
Pro Bowl: Gene Steratore
Super Bowl: Corrente
Conference championships: Hochuli, Anderson
Divisional: Corrente, McAulay, Cheffers, Blakeman
Wild card: Steratore, Coleman, Vinovich, Torbert
Pro Bowl: Allen
Super Bowl: Corrente
Conf Championship: McAuley, Vinovich
Divisional Playoffs: Cheffers, Coleman, Corrente, Torbert
Wild Card: Allen, Hoculi, Parry, Steratore
Pro Bowl: Blakeman
Super bowl: carl cheffers
Conference championship: John parry clete blakemen
Divisional round: walt anderson carl cheffers bill vinovich tony corrente
Wild card round: ed hochuli terry mcaulay Ronald torbert brad allen
Pro bowl: pete morelli
Why the red “x” on the Terry McAulay/Carl Cheffers divisional assignment? Do we know something already?
I thought the super bowl referee would be any Tier 1 referee that has not yet been assigned to a Super Bowl, not just the best one throughout the year. Which means Blakeman, Steratore or Cheffers would be favorites.
The only thing that is for sure is that no first year officials will be calling a playoff game
SB-Blakeman
conf champ-Corrente (even though I think he is undeserving)
-Coleman
Divisional-MacAuley, Parry, Cheffers, Wrolstad
Wildcard-Hochuli, Torbert, Vinovich, Anderson
Pro Bowl-Triplette
super bowl Steratore.
Finals Hochuli Vinovich(considering the tough year many refs had perhaps the rule might be waived and Vinovich gets 2 in a row only time was Tunney)( if it happens you heard it here first).
divisional corrente coleman steratore anderson
wd. card parry boger cheffers blakeman
pro bowl Triplette.
WC: Vinovich, Torbert, Esq., Gene, McAulay
Div: Coleman, Hochuli, Blakeman, Corrente
Champ: Cheffers, Perry
Pro Bowl: Morelli
Super Bowl: Coleman
Wild Card: Boger, Allen, Cheffers, Corrente
Divisional: Corrente, Anderson, Hochuli, Torbert
Conference Championships: Blakeman, Parry
Pro Bowl: Coleman
Super Bowl: Anderson
Super Bowl: Coleman
Conference: Corrente, Parry
Divisional : Anderson, Coleman, Torbert, Morelli
Wild Card: Blakeman, Vinovich, Cheffers, Boger
Pro Bowl: Hochuli
TOILET BOWL: McAulay (Final Game of his career)
Why is nobody discussing Bogar. Is he not eligible for a playoff game? I thought second year referees were not eligible for a playoff game.
Wild Card: Coleman,Blakeman,Parry,Wrolsted
Divisional:Cheffers,Vinovich,Hochuli,Anderson
Conference:Corrente,Steratore
Pro Bowl:Triplette
Super Bowl:Blakeman
Super Bowl: Clete Blakeman
Pro Bowl: Jeff Triplette
Conference: Terry McCauley, John Parry
Division: Clete Blakeman, Carl Cheffers, Tony Corrente, Ed Hochuli
Wild Card: Bill Vinovich, Gene Steratore, Pete Morelli, Walt Anderson
Super Bowl: Gene Seratore
Championship Games: Terry McAully and Bill Vinovich
Divisional Playoffs: Walt Coleman, John Parry, Ed Hochuli, Carl Cheffers
Wild Card: Gene Seratore, Walt Anderson, Clete Blakeman, Tony Corrente
Pro Bowl: Jerome Bogar
I swear, I have no inside knowledge, but I pegged three of the four for the WC. Missed on Vinovich only because he did the big game last year and didn’t think he’d go deep. Might be a divisional pick.
SB50 Carl Cheffers
Championship AFC Tony Corrente
NFC Ed Hochuli
Divisional Cheffers, Mcauley, Vinovich, Parry
Wild card Allen, Torbert, Coleman, Anderson
Pro Bowl Triplette
You left off Jerome Boger, the best referee in the history of the NFL.
After pegging three of the four in the wild card, I pegged three of the four for the divisional. Missed Cheffers and Wrolstad got it instead.