AFCCG Officiating Crew
 

Here is the crew that will be in New England on Sunday. In parenthesis, after the official's name, is the head of the crew for which he worked this year:

R- Jeff Triplette
U- Butch Hannah (Walt Anderson)
HL- Steve Stelljes (Mike Carey)
LJ- Gary Arthur (Walt Anderson)
FJ- Tom Sifferman (Ed Hochuli)
SJ- Greg Meyer (Triplette)
BJ- Greg Steed (Triplette)

By process of elimination, it looks as though Mike Carey will get the Super Bowl, but it's too soon to say who the rest of the crew will be, although my best guess for the U is Tony Michalek. Congrats to Carey. His first.

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A few more details: Corrente will likely be the ALT and Reels will be the replay official, probably.

Interesting note: Sifferman (on Hochuli's crew) worked the first NE/SD game.

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Can you give anymore info on Triplette? Like any Pats or Charger games he reffed?

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Ugh, Jeff Triplette. :( Wasn't he the one who called that infamous pass interference on Asante in the Denver game?

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Triplette was the Ref, I believe, in that game. But I suspect that Triplette hasn't called a PI penalty since he reffed high school. Refs don't call PI. The only penalty that the Ref would ever really call that would affect the game materially is roughing the passer or kicker.

Steed was the back judge in the Denver game, and he's in this game too. Mayer was the side judge. He's no longer on Triplette's crew. I don't know which of them called the PI on Asante.

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great...yet another game the pats will have to play agaisnt the other team and against the refs....surprise surprise?

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I know Triplette's crew did a Pats game this year, but I can't remember which. I remember they were fine. It will come to me.

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The ref actually has little impact on the penalties that fans care about -- the most significant thing is that he's the guy that goes under the hood. You care about the line judges and the back and side judges, and some of these are from Triplette's crew and some are not.

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Hate Triplette. He's got an attitude, and rushes to announce penalties without talking it over. Yes, he was the ref in Denver 2 years ago.

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@#%% Bob Kraft should pull a Polian and refuse to let him anywhere near the stadium. :mad:
Why not Ed Hoculi.