Who is officiating the game?

This could really affect our LOB if they are handing out ticky tack calls. Anyone know?

Looks like last week they were assigned/published on Wednesday.

link to last week's article... http://www.footballzebras.com/2014/01/01/9805/

please don't be Mike Carey, please don't be Mike Carey, please don't be Mike Carey.

JonRud":385kuhtv said:

please don't be Mike Carey, please don't be Mike Carey, please don't be Mike Carey.

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But Carey is the highest-ranked ref... :sarcasm_on:

HoustonHawk82":1vlmklgg said:

JonRud":1vlmklgg said:

please don't be Mike Carey, please don't be Mike Carey, please don't be Mike Carey.

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But Carey is the highest-ranked ref... :sarcasm_on:

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Bigger question is why is Carey a ref (anymore) at all?!! :dead_pan on:

Terry McAulay is the ref per football zebras

BTW. He is an LSU grad

McAulay was last seen in the Thursday night game in Arizona. Penalties - Seahawks 10-70, Cards 3-22.
But all things considered, I'm happy with this news.

Barthawk":i28k39jw said:

Terry McAulay is the ref per football zebras

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Graduate of LSU, and a native son of Louisiana.................

oh good

Saturday, Jan. 11
NFC Wild Card: Saints at Seahawks, 4:30 p.m. (Fox)
Terry McAulay is the referee, who is in his 16th year and 13th as referee. This is McAulay’s 13th postseason assignment (2 wild card playoffs, 2 divisional playoffs, 7 conference championships, and Super Bowls XXXIX and XLIII). His Super Bowl assignments were both as a referee.
Yr. Crew College Occupation
R 77 Terry McAulay 16 Louisiana State college officiating coordinator

AFC Wild Card: Colts at Patriots, 8:15 p.m. (CBS)
Pete Morelli is the referee, who is in his 17th year and 12th as referee. This is Morelli’s 14th postseason assignment (6 wild card playoffs, 5 divisional playoffs, 2 conference championships, and Super Bowl XXXVI). His Super Bowl assignment was as a field judge.
Yr. Crew College Occupation
R 135 Pete Morelli 17 St Mary’s high school principal
Sunday, Jan. 12

NFC Wild Card: 49ers at Panthers, 1 p.m. (Fox)
Carl Cheffers is the referee, who is in his 14th season and 6th as referee. This is Cheffers’ 8th postseason assignment (3 wild card playoffs, 3 divisional playoffs, 2 conference championships).
Yr. Crew College Occupation
R 51 Carl Cheffers 14 California-Irvine sales manager


AFC Wild Card: Chargers at Broncos, 4:30 p.m. (CBS)
Clete Blakeman is the referee, who is in his 6th season and 4th as referee. This is Blakeman’s 3rd postseason assignment (2 wild card playoffs, first divisional playoffs). Blakeman missed the playoffs last season; because he could not earn a playoff assignment in his first year as an official or as a referee, it was the only season in his NFL career that he did not qualify.

Via the link above....Backlinked and then copied it here. Good day to all.
Edited for clarity between the games. (my cat told me to do it)
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If I recall correctly, his crew was calling PI against Seattle quite a bit in that Arizona game. Luckily, it was already a blowout.

I would probablöy have prefered Moreli or Carl Cheffers. Moreli calls the fewst penalties, and Cheffers seems like he would be scared to call anything against the crowd...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk1dHrit5ZU

Best known for bottlegate. Terry McAulay stopped play to review a catch by the Browns after the Browns already ran a play. In short, the catch was ruled an in completion, plastic bottles littered the stadium field and with 48 seconds still left in the game made the announcement all Browns fans remember to this day, "The game is over"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQjaPVwmnAM

This is another attempt to keep the hawks down. the NFL hates that there poster child Kaepernick will have to play in seattle and this will allow them an opportunity to play at home if they win and close out Candlestick with an NFC championship game. Just like in 05' when the BUS retired, they had to make sure he got his ring. There is no way this guy should be refereeing this game.

sflahawk":319gtdfx said:

This is another attempt to keep the hawks down. the NFL hates that there poster child Kaepernick will have to play in seattle and this will allow them an opportunity to play at home if they win and close out Candlestick with an NFC championship game. Just like in 05' when the BUS retired, they had to make sure he got his ring. There is no way this guy should be refereeing this game.

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The way it looks from last weeks games was that the ref's were told to let the guys play a bit more which is good for us. It seem pervasive across all the games I saw.

I like this, obviously, because it lets our physical play freelance a bit but I don't like it because it should be consistent across the regular and post season. How are players suddenly supposed to change their gameplay just because we've swapped over to the postseason? Not fair imo.

sflahawk":1zhp40bo said:

This is another attempt to keep the hawks down. the NFL hates that there poster child Kaepernick will have to play in seattle and this will allow them an opportunity to play at home if they win and close out Candlestick with an NFC championship game. Just like in 05' when the BUS retired, they had to make sure he got his ring. There is no way this guy should be refereeing this game.

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Hope you're not serious, if so? Please stop.

Mike Carey hasn't reffed a game yet, and if he's considered the best, it seems like we'll have a 2/3 shot of having him in either the NFCC or SB...

The vote on FB Zebras for SB ref has McAulay as the top vote getter. He must be a good ref. He's also reffed 2 of the last 9 SBs. I think he's probably a good ref. He may not lets us get away with all of our stuff that say Morelli or Hocculi may, but in the end, all we want is a fair game (not Carey who will be looking for flags against us)