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Not sure if this poses more questions than it answers. From the Bylaws: "Commencing in 1970 a club in a four-team division in each conference shall play home and home with each club in its own division and five (5) games with clubs in the other divisions of its conference, and three (3) games e...

Very happy to see Art McNally get his due. I know this sounds like splitting hairs, but I feel there's a little revisionist history by the Hall on the biography of Shorty Ray. I keep seeing references to him being the "supervisor of officials" but that is simply not the case. The commissio...

Ben Dreith — referee and field judge for 31 years (AFL/NFL), tied for second-most all time — passed away at 96 on April 25.

http://www.footballzebras.com/2021/05/b ... ies-at-96/

RRMarshall wrote:If you need the officiating crews for the College All-Star Games from 1969 to 1975 I have some of them.

Thanks. That will fill in a few gaps.

Ah! On each team's season page. Many thanks!

I am looking to compile the postseason officiating assignments, and I decided to expand the scope to include the Chicago All-Star Game. Oh, and yeah, there was the New York All-Star Game in the 1930s and 1940s. However, like a low-quality infomercial will tell you, "but that's not all." In...

superbowlfanatic wrote: 27-28: Yes Same TV network, so to get to my fact and make it unique, you have to take it one step farther.

Same booth tandem

14-15 have teams from the same 2 states, but not the same teams 27-28 not only was a repeat matchup, but they were awarded to the same single TV network (unique by that wording to not count the split for CBS-NBC in the first Super Bowl) 9-10, I believe it's that the safeties were scored by the same ...

Probably not what you're looking for, but XI and XII were the only time a referee, Jim Tunney, worked consecutive Super Bowls. That won't happen again unless they remove the clause from the CBA.

Ron Botchan, umpire for an NFL record 5 Super Bowls and linebacker for the 1960 Chargers and 1961 AFL champion Oilers, passed away this week at 85. http://www.footballzebras.com/2021/01/ron-botchan-5-time-super-bowl-umpire-passes-away-at-85/ Bob Boylston, umpire for Super Bowls XXI and XXVI and repl...