SUPER BOWL Officials Predictions

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Originally posted by Bob M.
REPLY: It looks like the NFL is pretty much rewriting its policies on the fly. Or maybe they were rewritten for this season and we weren't privy to them. In the past, the only officials who worked multiple playoff games were those who were scheduled to work the Super Bowl. And they typically came out of the Divisional playoff round.

Absolutely true. From '94 until '03, the only crew to work two games was the SB crew.

Last year, Hochuli's crew came out of the Wild Card Round. And this season, all officials who worked the Conference Championships last weekend had already worked another playoff game--either the wild cards or the divisional rounds. That's new! And we can assume that the SB officials have also worked before in the last few weeks.

Actually last year, the two crews that worked the conference championships, Coleman and Kukar also worked a wild card game. Hoculi work the Philly-Green Bay divisional game and the SB.

This year, Carollo is the only R to work 2 games so far, a divisional and a conference championship. But the only official on both of those crews was the LJ. McAulay worked a divisional.

http://members.tripod.com/refereestats/playoffArc.htm

http://members.tripod.com/refereestats/05playoffs.htm

Doesn't seem to be much of a pattern.