Terry McAulay

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McAulay at Super Bowl XLIII

Terry McAulay (* 1959 / 1960 ) is a former American referee in the National Football League (NFL) and former referee commissioner of the American Athletic Conference .

McAulay directed six Conference Championship Games and three Super Bowls : Super Bowl XXXIX , Super Bowl XLIII, and Super Bowl XLVIII .

Personal

McAuley grew up in Hammond , Louisiana and attended Louisiana State University , where he earned a degree in computer science. From 1982 he then worked for the National Security Agency as a software developer. In 2008 he gave up this position.

Referee career

Start time

McAulays began his referee career in 1976. Initially it was mostly used in high school games, but then went to college football . Between 1994 and 1997 he was a referee in the Atlantic Coast Conference and was a referee in the first BCS National Championship game in 1998 .

NFL

In 1998 McAulay was a referee in the NFL. For the 2001 season he was appointed referee . He has been number 77 ever since.

His decision in a game between the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Cleveland Browns on December 16, 2001 was particularly criticized . On a 4th down & 1, Browns wide receiver Quincy Morgan caught a pass for a new first down. After quarterback Tim Couch spiked the ball to stop the clock the next play , McAulay announced that Morgan's catch was being reviewed and the video referees had contacted him prior to the spike. McAulay then announced that the video evidence showed that the ball was not controlled by Morgan, which is why the leading Jaguars got the ball. Fans of the Browns then threw plastic bottles on the field and the referees, whereupon McAulay ended the game prematurely. However, NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue gave instructions that the game should continue. The game was restarted 35 minutes late and the Jaguars ran out of time and won the game.

In 2008 he became the referee representative of the Big East Conference and in 2013 occupied the same position of its successor, the American Athletic Conference . In 2018 he was released from this position with the switch from a one-person system to a three-person system.

After the NFL season in 2017 , he resigned as a referee. In return, he accepted an analyst job at NBC Sports for Sunday Night Football.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Louisiana native Terry McAulay leads NFL in officiating accuracy rating. September 21, 2009, accessed December 2, 2015 .
  2. ^ Staff Directory , American Athletic Conference . Retrieved December 2, 2015. 
  3. ↑ Will Brinson: NFL names Terry McAulay referee for Super Bowl XLVIII . CBS Sports. January 15, 2014. Retrieved January 19, 2014.
  4. ↑ Super Bowl referee Terry McAulay whet his whistle calling local high school games , Baltimore Sun. January 31, 2014. Archived from the original on February 1, 2014 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.baltimoresun.com 
  5. ↑ Fans get unruly about overturned call in final minute , Associated Press . December 16, 2001. Retrieved January 1, 2011. 
  6. ↑ Terry McAulay out as American Athletic Conference shifts football officiating oversight model. USA Today, accessed March 23, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Terry McAulay retires; third official to step away from NFL this offseason. ESPN, June 21, 2018, accessed June 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME McAulay, Terry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American football referee
DATE OF BIRTH 1959 or 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH United States