Super Bowl Officials

[Ed Hickland]

Originally posted by johnSandlin
Wanting to know if anybody has any inside information as to the NFL has assigned to the Super Bowl this year? Of the crews that I saw work the playoffs this year, I am hoping that Terry McCauly(Referee for the Tampa/Philly game last week) gets the white hat assignment.

Al Hynes, former NFL supervisor, told a group of us before the season started, the Super Bowl officials usually work one lower level game and are re-evaluated for the Super Bowl after the playoffs. Most of the time these officials are taken from a wild card game.

The top 11 officials at each position get playoff assignments. No official can work two consecutive Super Bowl so any of last year's officials are ineligible. You must have two years to work the Super Bowl.

This pretty well holds true this season:

Carollo - Cle-Pit
Coukart - Ind-Nyj
Williams - Atl-Phl
Steinkerchner - Atl-Phl
Sifferman - Ind-Nyj
Don Carey - Ind-Nyj
Patterson - Ind-Nyj

Remember, the Nyg-Sfo game had a controversial call. Williams and Steinkerchner were in divisional playoff games.

Also, the number two officials make out better than the number one officials because they get a trip to Hawaii for the official and their spouse for the Pro Bowl.

I believe Terry McAuley is only a second year referee.