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.

R 63 BILL CAROLLO
U 71 ED COUKART
HL 8 DALE WILLIAMS
LJ 84 MARK STEINKERCHNER
FJ 118 TOM SIFFERMAN
BJ 126 DON CAREY
SJ 15 RICK PATTERSON

Alternates:

Ed Hochuli and
Scott Dawson

Super Bowl Officiating Crew
 

Fellow Officials,

Here is the official crew assignment for this Sunday's Super Bowl game along with alternate officials as well.
Referee: Bill Carillo
Umpire: Ed Coukart
Head Linesman: Dale Williams
Line Judge: Mike Steinkerchner
Field Judge: Tom Sifferman
Side Judge: Rick Patterson
Back Judge: Don Carey
Alternates: Ed Hochuli & Scott Dawson

<a href="http://football.officiating.com/x/article/3020">"Amateur" Football Officials Make Good</a>

You'll find the Super Bowl and division playoff assignments there.

Thanks,
Brad

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.

self-reffing
 

just a query, why don't the players ref themselves the way we do in Ki-o-Rahi?

[Edited by Taha Maori on Feb 1st, 2003 at 05:23 AM]

Just exactly DO you folks drink down there??? Whatever it is, it obviously has serious delibitating qualities!!!!

Kia ora TXMike I'm enjoying this sports debate. I usually drink water and we have many deep mineral springs in our country (NZ)that give excellent town supplies.A good bottled water to buy here is called 'Pump', it comes from the very picturesque Blue Springs of the Waihou River near the Waikato township of Putaruru.This has been certified as our countries purest water supply having made a 100yr underground filter/flow from its source in the Kaimai Ranges to reappear at the much lower level in the Waihou River.

The reason we self-ref here, and yes I agree it would be somewhat of a culture shock to you, is to assist the flow of the game. We try to assist making the rules work rather than spend our time trying to figure out how best to cheat them or circum-navigate them or having to "buy" officials off or having lawyer assisted dramas behind doors.

We also have rules so that women can play in the games at the same time as the men, and remember this is full-on contact sport.

This unique aspect of the game therefore relies heavily on self-reffing.

Thanks for the enquiry.

Where's Derock!?

Has anyone seen Derock and Taha Maori at the same time???? Maybe they are one in the same???