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Carl Cheffers would be the Tremendous Bowl referee for the third time prior to now six years.
The NFL introduced the eight-person officiating crew for this 12 months’s huge recreation, led by Cheffers:
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Cheffers and his crew known as 214 penalties this season, most amongst all officiating crews within the NFL. Their 244 flags thrown had been tied for the second-most.
Roy Ellison was the umpire on Adrian Hill’s crew. In January 2019, Josh Peter of USA At the moment famous Ellison has been disciplined twice by the NFL for utilizing derogatory language towards a participant. In 1991, he was arrested on fees of aggravated battery in opposition to his then-wife, Nichelle. He served one 12 months of probation and took court-ordered anger administration courses.
Ellison was employed by the NFL in 2003. This will probably be his third profession Tremendous Bowl after serving to to officiate Tremendous Bowl 43 and 52.
Line choose Jeff Bergman, facet choose Eugene Corridor and again choose Dino Paganelli have all labored the Tremendous Bowl twice earlier than.
Corridor and Paganelli had been each on the crew for Tremendous Bowl 55 between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Kansas Metropolis Chiefs.
Down choose Jerod Phillips, discipline choose John Jenkins and replay official Mark Butterworth are all making their first look on the Tremendous Bowl. Jenkins is essentially the most expertise member of the trio with 9 years within the NFL.
Butterworth is in his sixth season as a replay official. Phillips is in his seventh season and labored on Clay Martin’s workers in 2022.
Tremendous Bowl 57 will happen at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on Feb. 12. The matchup for this 12 months’s recreation will probably be decided after Sunday’s NFC and AFC Championship Video games.
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