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The Super Bowl officials are the officials chosen for the Super Bowl, XL: 5 February 2006 Bill Leavy: Garth DeFelice Mark Hittner: Mark Perlman: Steve Zimmer When high-profile referee Ed Hochuli visited the Seahawks' training camp in the months after that Super Bowl, he and his crew took good-natured ribbing from players. Referee Bill Leavy, crew chief for Super Bowl XL, reignited the controversy when he visited Seahawks training camp four years later in August 2010. "It was a tough thing for me," he said. "It was This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 January 2025. 2006 National Football League championship game "2006 Super Bowl" redirects here. For the Super Bowl that was played at the completion of the 2006 season, see Super Bowl XLI. Super Bowl XL Seattle Seahawks (1) (NFC) (13–3) Pittsburgh Steelers (6) (AFC) (11–5) 10 21 Head coach: Mike Click on the Super Bowl number in the first column to explore the Super Bowl officiating crew, alternate assignments, a box score, and historical notes and facts about the crews from each game. Date Visiting team Home team Score Venue Referee I 1966 January 15, 1967 Kansas City Chiefs Green Bay Packers 35-10 Ron Torbert is the referee for Super Bowl LIX. Super Bowl XL. Embed from Getty Images. Seahawks vs. Steelers February 5, 2006 Ford Field • Detroit, Mich. Yrs Not every NFL referee is eligible to work the Super Bowl, as it is only open to officials who have refereed for at least five seasons and have previously officiated a playoff game. There are seven on-field officials and one replay official for every NFL game. Who are the officials at Super Bowl LIX? Referee: Ronald Torbert; Umpire: Mike Morton The man who who reffed the 2006 Super Bowl says the Seahawks got jobbed. I'm not sure we needed to know all of this. The NFL isn't going go back and change the outcome. Super Bowl 2025 referees Mike Morton, Boris Cheek are from Charlotte NC. Morton is first player to win NFL championship and officiate SB. Carolina Panthers Two Super Bowl refs have Charlotte The Super Bowl is the biggest sporting event in America, which means the referee will have a lot of eyes on him. This year’s head official will be Ron Torbert, and he could be about to become The Event: Many of the believers who feel Seattle was robbed of a victory in Super Bowl XL remember the first quarter of the game, a segment in which the Steelers offense didn't obtain a single In his twenty-year NFL officiating career, Leavy was assigned to fifteen playoff games, including two Super Bowls. He was selected as a back judge on the Super Bowl XXXIV officiating crew in 2000 and most recently headed up the Super Bowl XL officiating crew as referee in 2006. Leavy was a referee in the NFL for 20 seasons from 1994-2014 and announced his retirement on May 13th, 2015 after the 2014 season. He was a two-time Super Bowl official. There have been seven officials chosen at each Super Bowl dating back to XIII, where there were only six. A side judge was added during the 1978-79 season and has remained ever since. The head referee is the most important of the officials. The first officials to call a Super Bowl with triple-digit jerseys were head linesman Dale Hamer (104), and back (now field) judge Dick Hantak (105), both in Super Bowl XVII. Hantak was the first official at there referee position with a three digit jersey to call at Super Bowl (XXVII). It's a good thing Seattle's playing in the Super Bowl on Sunday because that means Seahawks fans can finally put Super Bowl XL behind them. In a game where referee Bill Leavy got flag-happy, the Leavy served as the referee in two Super Bowls. In addition to Super Bowl XL, he also handled Super Bowl XXXIV, between the Titans and Rams. It was Super Bowl XL that made Leavy the subject of scrutiny and derision, among Seattle fans. In 2010, he admitted that it wasn’t an ideal performance. “ It was a tough thing for me,” Levy said at Host selection process Looking toward the stadium on the night of the Super Bowl. Ford Field was selected to host Super Bowl XL on November 1, 2000, at the owners meetings held in Atlanta, two years before the stadium opened in 2002; [7] the only previous Super Bowl held in the Detroit area, Super Bowl XVI, had been played at the Pontiac Silverdome in 1982 (also between teams from the AFC In Super Bowl XL, at 10:54 of the fourth quarter, Hasselbeck was intercepted by Ike Taylor and subsequently flagged for going low during a return. In Roethlisberger’s case, the flag was Super Bowl Officials. 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; 2010s; 2020s; Number after name indicates multiple Super Bowls appearances as an on-field official. Super Bowl I.
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