First Ever Ref in NFL Hall of Fame? (1 Viewer)

[Fred Lane]

Lockout

 

[BobbyLayne]

The guy Hochuli replaced, Stan Kemp, wwould be my first pick.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Well we know it won't be any we saw in the last 3 weeks.

 

[Pigskin Fanatic]

they should have the ceremony in San Diego. (i voted yes, i think he is one of the best, unfortunately the one call he will be remembered for is just as bad if not worse than what has been happening in the last three weeks.)

 

[flc735]

when i visit the HOF in 30 years, I want to see peyton manning, bill bellickeck and tom brady in there. I could care less if hochuli is in there or not. I've seen him and others a lot, but i couldn't even name 1 game or moment that he was involved in.

 

[Trey]

Love Hochuli. Would love to see him in the Hall.

 

[SSOG]

they should have the ceremony in San Diego. (i voted yes, i think he is one of the best, unfortunately the one call he will be remembered for is just as bad if not worse than what has been happening in the last three weeks.)

Nowhere near as bad. He blew an inadvertent whistle, immediately recognized it as a mistake, and corrected it to the fullest extent allowed by replay rules at the time. He was absolutely devastated immediately after the game, and made immediate, repeated, profuse, and sincere apologies to all involved. And the play itself didn't decide the game, either- SD still had two more chances to get a stop for the win. So, all told, not anywhere near the same stratosphere as the MNF fiasco.

 

[Pigskin Fanatic]

they should have the ceremony in San Diego. (i voted yes, i think he is one of the best, unfortunately the one call he will be remembered for is just as bad if not worse than what has been happening in the last three weeks.)

Nowhere near as bad. He blew an inadvertent whistle, immediately recognized it as a mistake, and corrected it to the fullest extent allowed by replay rules at the time. He was absolutely devastated immediately after the game, and made immediate, repeated, profuse, and sincere apologies to all involved. And the play itself didn't decide the game, either- SD still had two more chances to get a stop for the win. So, all told, not anywhere near the same stratosphere as the MNF fiasco.

Yea, just remembered reading your post that the following day I read he did what he had to based on the replay rules after blowing the call.

 

[BigSteelThrill]

Jim Tunney

 

[DoubleG]

Well we know it won't be any we saw in the last 3 weeks.

 

[BobbyLayne]

Jim Tunney

Great call.

In his 31 years as an NFL official, Jim 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. He is still the only referee who has worked consecutive Super Bowls, and likely will be the only one to do so.

Nicknamed the "Dean of NFL Referees", Tunney was the first official to be named to the "All-Madden Team" in 1990 and won the "Gold Whistle Award" in 1992 from the National Association of Sports Officials (NASO).

Memorable games

Here is a listing of some notable games Tunney was involved in:

"The Field Goal" - Baltimore at Green Bay (December 26, 1965) - field judge

"The Ice Bowl" - Dallas at Green Bay (December 31, 1967) - alternate referee

"The Kick" - Detroit at New Orleans (November 8, 1970)

1979 AFC championship game - Houston at Pittsburgh (January 6, 1980) (In this game, Oilers wide receiver Mike Renfro was ruled to have been out of bounds on an apparent touchdown pass from Dan Pastorini late in the third quarter that would have tied the game. Replays showed that Renfro got both feet down inbounds, but Houston had to settle for a field goal.)

"The Catch" - Dallas at San Francisco (January 10, 1982)

"The 100th Game" - Green Bay at Chicago (November 20, 1983)

"The Snowball Game" - San Francisco at Denver (November 11, 1985)

"The Fumble" - Cleveland at Denver (January 17, 1988)

"The Fog Bowl" - Philadelphia at Chicago (December 31, 1988)

I still like Kemp better, but Tunney isn't from my home town.

 

[Billy1x]

Love Hochuli. Would love to see him in the Hall.

Jerry Markbreit. He is currently one of the chief trainers for the refs (the ones on strike) and has met with them every week since he retired. He was fired by the NFL for not training the current replacements. A Man of Honor, a great ref, and I also understand he was one of the best motivational speakers in the country.Until he retired from the NFL after the 1998 season, Markbreit officiated in two wild card (1991 and 1994), ten divisional (1979, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1995, 1997, and 1998), eight conference championship (1980, 1983, 1984, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, and 1996) playoff games, one Pro Bowl (1978), and four Super Bowls: Super Bowl XVII, Super Bowl XXI, Super Bowl XXVI, and Super Bowl XXIX and was an alternate in Super Bowl XIX, Super Bowl XXII, and Super Bowl XXVIII.[2][3] To date, he is the only NFL head referee to officiate four Super Bowl games.

 

[Billy1x]

Okay - Against Tunney it would be pretty close.

 

[DesmondBishop]

Nowhere near as bad. He blew an inadvertent whistle, immediately recognized it as a mistake, and corrected it to the fullest extent allowed by replay rules at the time. He was absolutely devastated immediately after the game, and made immediate, repeated, profuse, and sincere apologies to all involved. And the play itself didn't decide the game, either- SD still had two more chances to get a stop for the win. So, all told, not anywhere near the same stratosphere as the MNF fiasco.

Great post SSOG, I do not always agree with you, but you are one of the best posters to read in mho.

 

[mbrasi]

My vote is for Don King

 

[BobbyLayne]

Ron Botchan worked 5 Super Bowls as an Umpire.

#110 is the ref to own in this thread.

 

[RenegadeGM]

Bodybuilding Hall of Fame?

 

[audiolover]

Red Cashion

First dowwwnnnn.....

 

[elmanx]

they should have the ceremony in San Diego. (i voted yes, i think he is one of the best, unfortunately the one call he will be remembered for is just as bad if not worse than what has been happening in the last three weeks.)

Nowhere near as bad. He blew an inadvertent whistle, immediately recognized it as a mistake, and corrected it to the fullest extent allowed by replay rules at the time. He was absolutely devastated immediately after the game, and made immediate, repeated, profuse, and sincere apologies to all involved. And the play itself didn't decide the game, either- SD still had two more chances to get a stop for the win. So, all told, not anywhere near the same stratosphere as the MNF fiasco.

I remember watching the whole thing play out live and I actually thought that the way he handled it made me think he was a better than average ref.

 

[Houston turmOiler]

Jim Tunney

Great call.

In his 31 years as an NFL official, Jim 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. He is still the only referee who has worked consecutive Super Bowls, and likely will be the only one to do so.

Nicknamed the "Dean of NFL Referees", Tunney was the first official to be named to the "All-Madden Team" in 1990 and won the "Gold Whistle Award" in 1992 from the National Association of Sports Officials (NASO).

Memorable games

Here is a listing of some notable games Tunney was involved in:

"The Field Goal" - Baltimore at Green Bay (December 26, 1965) - field judge

"The Ice Bowl" - Dallas at Green Bay (December 31, 1967) - alternate referee

"The Kick" - Detroit at New Orleans (November 8, 1970)

1979 AFC championship game - Houston at Pittsburgh (January 6, 1980) (In this game, Oilers wide receiver Mike Renfro was ruled to have been out of bounds on an apparent touchdown pass from Dan Pastorini late in the third quarter that would have tied the game. Replays showed that Renfro got both feet down inbounds, but Houston had to settle for a field goal.)

"The Catch" - Dallas at San Francisco (January 10, 1982)

"The 100th Game" - Green Bay at Chicago (November 20, 1983)

"The Snowball Game" - San Francisco at Denver (November 11, 1985)

"The Fumble" - Cleveland at Denver (January 17, 1988)

"The Fog Bowl" - Philadelphia at Chicago (December 31, 1988)

I still like Kemp better, but Tunney isn't from my home town.

Pardon me for not sharing your sentiments...some of us down here would like to send him somewhere else

 

[GregR]

This thread is a bit ironic, because I was just reminiscing how people were heavily complaining about Hoculi's ref'ing last year.

In threads like Hercules Hochuli Must Be Fired. A few excerpts to remind of how people at the time thought the original refs were doing:

Agreed. He screwed up play after play after play in the first Jets/Bills game. He should have been gone a long time ago.

What did he do? Examples please...not that I doubt the validity of the thread, just want to know exactly what happened.

Hr reviewed a Big Ben fumble that was clearly moving before he was down but didn't overturn it. I have rooting stakes for the Steelers in this game, but that was a blown call IMO.

My biggest problem with this crew is the amount of ticky tack flags they throw effect the flow of the game. I see it week after week.

On a related note, anyone catch Triplette totally screw up the rules for overtime before the coin toss in the DEN-SD game?

Between that and the PIT-DET "heads" debacle years ago, the guy must pray for games to be decided in regulation

Whoever is in charge of calling holding in this game shouldn't be allowed to operate heavy machinery due to his visual impairment.

Most of the holding calls on the OL are thrown by the umpire standing behind them....

I would really like to see the stats of this crew compared with others. My guess is that they throw WAY more holding calls and penalties in general.

It is borderline unwatchable when Hochuli's crew is working the game.

My vote goes for Tripplette and Winters as the worse. Was really hoping that when Winters got trampled into that pile last week that his glasses would have gotten broken so that way he could get a prescription that actually works with his horrid eyes.

Awful call today. How it wasn't a fumble by Little is something I don't understand.

but I thought it was Norwood. Wretchedly bad call

I'm glad the real refs are back. The replacements failed to keep the game under control, and let too much go in the way of mugging receivers. But I have a feeling the honeymoon is going to be a short one.