Jeff Triplette and Ed Hochuli are retiring/Triplette hired by ESPN as "rules analyst"

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Hopefully Ed's son Shawn can pick up the mantle as one of the few refs that doesn't completely suck.
 

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Actually Brown was playing for the Browns, not the Ravens, when the flag hit him in the eye.

That NFLMEME about the Patriots retiring Hockuli's number is golden.
 

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Hoading number 73 ..im gonna miss that lol
 

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Too bad. I like Hochuli.

His best on field announcement.
"Sorry for the delay. We were stretching our balls"
 

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Great to get rid of Triplett but the biceps? Not so much IMO.
 

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http://www.footballzebras.com/2018/...o-join-espn-broadcast-booth-as-rules-analyst/

Jeff Triplette to join ESPN broadcast booth as rules analyst :eek:
by Cameron Filipe

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Nearly six months off his retirement, Jeff Triplette is slated to join ESPN as a rules analyst along with newcomers Joe Tessitore and Jason Witten in the Monday Night Football booth, according to officiating and network sources. Football Zebras has also learned that the NFL specifically steered ESPN to hire Triplette. He will be replacing former referee Gerald Austin, who has served on the MNF team since 2012.

An ESPN spokesman declined to comment.

Triplette worked in the NFL for 22 seasons as both a back judge and referee and worked his final game, the Titans-Chiefs Wild Card game, last season.

He worked 11 postseason games, including 6 Wild Card Playoffs, 4 Divisional Playoffs, as well as the 2007 AFC Conference Championship. Triplette served as the alternate referee for Super Bowl XLI and was the referee for the 2010 Pro Bowl.

On the field, Triplette was not immune to controversy, even among casual fans. Notably, after a controversial replay decision by Triplette in a 2013 Bengals regular season game, he was assigned to a Bengals postseason game, which thrust Dean Blandino, who was the vice president of officiating, into the replay booth to monitor the game and consult or intervene if necessary. This was seen as a precursor the eventual centralization of replay at league headquarters in New York.

His final game was also not without controversy; his former boss Mike Pereira reluctantly criticized the crew for its performance in the game.

Triplette is the CEO of Arbiter Sports, an online portal for high school and college officiating coordinators that streamlines the assignment and payment of officials. He is a retired Army Reserve colonel and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal during the first Persian Gulf War. Triplette was also the president of the NFL Referees’ Association, the officials union, from 2013 to 2017.

ESPN reports that Austin is joining his former MNF compatriot Jon Gruden, as a consultant with the Oakland Raiders. Austin is expected to remain the officiating coordinator for Conference USA.

Ben Austro contributed to this report.
 

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http://www.footballzebras.com/2018/...o-join-espn-broadcast-booth-as-rules-analyst/

Jeff Triplette to join ESPN broadcast booth as rules analyst :eek:
by Cameron Filipe

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Nearly six months off his retirement, Jeff Triplette is slated to join ESPN as a rules analyst along with newcomers Joe Tessitore and Jason Witten in the Monday Night Football booth, according to officiating and network sources. Football Zebras has also learned that the NFL specifically steered ESPN to hire Triplette. He will be replacing former referee Gerald Austin, who has served on the MNF team since 2012.

An ESPN spokesman declined to comment.

Triplette worked in the NFL for 22 seasons as both a back judge and referee and worked his final game, the Titans-Chiefs Wild Card game, last season.

He worked 11 postseason games, including 6 Wild Card Playoffs, 4 Divisional Playoffs, as well as the 2007 AFC Conference Championship. Triplette served as the alternate referee for Super Bowl XLI and was the referee for the 2010 Pro Bowl.

On the field, Triplette was not immune to controversy, even among casual fans. Notably, after a controversial replay decision by Triplette in a 2013 Bengals regular season game, he was assigned to a Bengals postseason game, which thrust Dean Blandino, who was the vice president of officiating, into the replay booth to monitor the game and consult or intervene if necessary. This was seen as a precursor the eventual centralization of replay at league headquarters in New York.

His final game was also not without controversy; his former boss Mike Pereira reluctantly criticized the crew for its performance in the game.

Triplette is the CEO of Arbiter Sports, an online portal for high school and college officiating coordinators that streamlines the assignment and payment of officials. He is a retired Army Reserve colonel and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal during the first Persian Gulf War. Triplette was also the president of the NFL Referees’ Association, the officials union, from 2013 to 2017.

ESPN reports that Austin is joining his former MNF compatriot Jon Gruden, as a consultant with the Oakland Raiders. Austin is expected to remain the officiating coordinator for Conference USA.

Ben Austro contributed to this report.
I can't wait to hear his analysis.

"Normally that would be a good block, but since the Rams got a first down on that one and it's been 3 plays since the last penalty... Screw it. I'd call holding on the center. Just because."
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Tripleshit isn't fit to call an elementary flag football game, let alone be an replay analysist for BSPN.
 

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Triplett and espn are a match made in heaven. Both useless as fuck.

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Well, here's the new replacement ref. I did hear he's gonna be full time though!
 

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https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/...re-becomes-fourth-official-to-retire-in-2018/

NFL keeps losing refs as Gene Steratore becomes fourth official to retire in 2018
by John Breech

After 15 years as an NFL official, it looks like referee Gene Steratore has decided to hang up his whistle for good.

The NFL's vice president of officiating, Al Riveron, announced on Friday that Steratore has decided to retire. Of course, Riveron is probably used to making retirement announcements at this point, because that's basically all he's been doing this offseason.

Steratore becomes the fourth referee to retire this offseason, which is notable, because the NFL only had a total of 17 lead referees during the 2017 regular season. That means the league is going to be forced to replace nearly 25 percent of its refs heading into the upcoming season.

Besides Steratore, the NFL has also lost lost Ed Hochuli, Jeff Triplette and Terry McAulay, who all decided to retire this offseason. A big reason so many refs are jumping ship this year is because there's now ample opportunity for them to make money in TV. Both Triplette and McAulay have already lined up TV jobs, with Triplette headed to ESPN's Monday Night Football and McAulay headed to NBC for Sunday Nigh Football, according to ESPN.com.

Over his 15-year career, Steratore worked a total of 12 playoff games, including the Super Bowl. Besides Super Bowl LII, there's a good chance that you remember at least one other playoff game where Steratore was the ref: Cowboys-Packers. Yup, Steratore was the referee for the infamous "Dez Caught It" game, where Dez didn't actually catch it -- or maybe he did, I'm still not sure.

Steratore was also the ref for one of the oddest moments of the NFL 2017 season. During a game against the Cowboys and Raiders, Steratore gave Dallas a first down late in the game, but only after using a note card to help him with the measurement.

http://www.footballzebras.com/2018/06/22/gene-steratore-to-retire-after-15-seasons/

Sources have confirmed that Steratore will become a rules analyst for CBS Sports, a position that former referee Mike Carey held for a single season in 2015.

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...terry-mcaulay-third-official-retire-offseason

Longtime NFL official Terry McAulay announced his retirement Thursday. He is the fourth referee to leave the league this offseason.

According to multiple sources, McAulay is joining NBC Sports as a rules analyst for Sunday Night Football. NBC Sports declined comment. McAulay was one of a number of NFL officials interviewed for the position, including referee Clete Blakeman.