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Then for Super Bowl XXXVIII and Super Bowl XXXIX, the NFL selected the highest rated crew during the regular season. This was a reaction to several officiating mistakes during the 2002-03 playoffs , and the league felt that preserving the familiarity and cohesiveness of the officiating crews during the postseason might reduce the errors.
Think of the referee crew for the Super Bowl as the NFL's all-star game for the people wearing black-and-white striped shirts. All season long, the league tracks the performance of each referee at ...
The only officials with prior Super Bowl experience refereeing this game are Torbert and side judge Boris Cheek. Here's the rest of the crew: Umpire Mike Morton. Down judge Max Causey.
Mike Carey (1990–2013) side judge 1990–1994; referee 1995–2013; former NFL on CBS rules analyst (first African-American referee in a Super Bowl, Super Bowl XLII) Don Carlsen (1989–2012) side judge; Bill Carollo (1989–2008) side judge 1989–1996; referee 1997–2008
Torbert is in his 15th season as an NFL official and 11th as a referee. Super Bowl LIX will be his 14th career postseason assignment. Torbert most recently worked Saturday's Washington Commanders ...
Jim Tunney (March 3, 1929 – December 12, 2024) was an American professional football official in the National Football League (NFL) from 1960 to 1990. In his 31 years as an NFL official, Tunney received a record 29 post-season assignments, including ten championship games and Super Bowls VI, XI and XII and named as an alternate in Super Bowl XVIII.
The call was largely credited by the media and NFL executives in helping Markbreit land the assignment as the referee of Super Bowl XXI two months later. Markbreit refereed Super Bowl XVII . During the coin toss Markbreit became confused by the similar design of both sides of the coin: one side had two helmets and the other side showed two ...
Torbert has been the referee for one other Super Bowl, and that had a controversial call too. With the Cincinnati Bengals leading the Los Angeles Rams late in Super Bowl LVI, Bengals linebacker ...