Ed Hotchuli to referee the big game

[Lumberg]

Ed Hotchuli is the ref that is built.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-superbowl-officials&prov=ap&type=lgns

Hochuli to head Super Bowl officiating team


January 29, 2004
HOUSTON (AP) -- Ed Hochuli will referee Sunday's Super Bowl between New England and Carolina, along with two other members of his regular-season crew, the top-rated in the NFL this season.

It will be the second Super Bowl as a referee for Hochuli, a lawyer from Phoenix. He also did the 1998 game between Denver and Green Bay and was the alternate last season.

This is the first season officials were rated by crew in an effort to keep units intact for the playoffs.


Head linesman Mark Hittner and field judge Tom Sifferman also served on Hochuli's crew and will officiate at the Super Bowl. The other four members did not meet the criterion for the Super Bowl -- five years experience and at least one other championship game.

They will be replaced by umpire Jeff Rice, line judge Ben Montgomery, side judge Laird Hayes and back judge Scott Green, who ranked highest at their positions.

The alternates are referee Bill Carollo, umpire Jim Quirk and field judge Bill Lovett.


Updated on Thursday, Jan 29, 2004 3:09 pm EST

 

[AAP]

Oh, I thought this was going to be about Wrestlemania.

 

[sh4dowf4lcon]

he rocks

 

[supersizeme]

never knew the guy's name. i remember seeing him a lot and all the time remarking about how jacked he looked. that dude's got some arms on him. unfortunately neither of those pics give a good view of them.

 

[AAP]

shit.

now we gonna get all these threads about whether he juices or not. move over brad pitt and edward norton.

 

[Atomic Punk]

Isn't that the moron who fucked up the Thanksgiving Day coin toss a few years ago? Jerome Bettis said "tails", and the Ref thought that he said "heads" instead. Something like that.

 

[Lumberg]

I'm sure he don't juice.

I don't think he's the one that fucked up the toss.

 

[argent]

he kicks ass

 

[slickdadd]

Isn't that the moron who fucked up the Thanksgiving Day coin toss a few years ago? Jerome Bettis said "tails", and the Ref thought that he said "heads" instead. Something like that.

nope, not him.

 

[MattRecc]

what do you think his juicing regiment looks like? i wanna look like him-maybe a cross between him and ed norton from american history x...fucking ripped...hopefully if i do chest and biceps enough ill be ready for spring break!