List of Super Bowl officials
- List of Super Bowl officials
The Super Bowl officials are the officials chosen for the Super Bowl, the championship game of the National Football League (NFL), the largest and most prestigious professional American football league.
election
The NFL's highest-rated official at each position is selected to work the Super Bowl. This is determined by the league using an evaluation system to grade each officials calls during the year. However, only officials who have worked in the league for at least five seasons and have previously worked during the playoffs are eligible to officiate in a Super Bowl. [cite news | url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07032/758554-66.stm | title=Super Bowl notebook: Ex-Steelers QB Miller likes Bears | first=Ed | last=Bouchette | publisher=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | date=2007-02-01 | accessdate=2007-09-15]
This has not always been the case. From Super Bowl I to Super Bowl IV, when the game was the "AFL (American Football League)-NFL World Championship Game", the officiating crews consisted of members from both leagues. 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. [cite news | url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/news/2003/03/25/playoff_officials_ap/ | title=NFL to scrap all-star officiating crews for playoffs | publisher=SI.com | date=2003-03-25 | accessdate=2007-09-15]
List of officials
"Note: A seven-official system was not used until Super Bowl XIII. Beginning with Super Bowl XXXIII, the league swapped position titles with the field judge and back judge."
AFL-NFL World Championships
ee also
*List of NFL officials
*Official (American football)
*Super Bowl
Notes and references
*cite book | title=Super Bowl Notes, Quotes & Anecdotes: Games I-XL | publisher=NFL | date=2006 | pages=123
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