- Carl Cheffers
Carl Cheffers is an
American football official in theNational Football League (NFL) since the2000 NFL season , who wears uniform number 51.cite news |title=Carl Cheffers, officiating among NFL and NFL Europa |url=http://www.nfliofficials.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=49&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 |date=2006-12-03 | publisher=National Football League Italy |accessdate=2008-04-27]Personal
Carl Cheffers is married and has two children.cite web |title=Carl Cheffers - NFL |url=http://www.footballofficialscamp.com/staffbios/cheffers_carl.htm |publisher=Football Official's Camp |accessdate=2008-04-27] Cheffers' father also was a football official and worked in the
Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10).Officiating career
As a college student, Cheffers became interested in officiating through his father, and decided to work intramural sports to make additional income. Enjoying the experience of student sports, he sought assistance from his father to officiate
high school football games to begin a career. Starting in 1980, he worked several high school playoff games, and two high school championship games. By 1995, Cheffers began officiating in the Pac-10 where he worked for five seasons before being hired by the NFL. During this time, he also worked in theWestern Athletic Conference .Since entering the NFL, Cheffers has worked as a side judge, most recently on the crew headed by referee
Larry Nemmers .cite news |title=NFL promotes Cheffers, Riveron to referee |url= http://myespn.go.com/blogs/hashmarks/0-6-10/NFL-promotes-Cheffers--Riveron-to-referee.html | publisher=ESPN |last=Sando |first=Mike |date=2008-04-01 |accessdate=2008-04-28] Cheffers was promoted to referee (crew chief) beginning with the2008 NFL season following the retirement of Nemmers and refereeGerald Austin .In his promotion to referee, NFL officiating director
Mike Pereira said of Cheffers, "Carl has been extremely successful on the field as a side judge. He is very knowledgeable of the rules, a good rules guy. Strong presence. He was part of Larry Nemmers' crew and he was clearly a crew leader. When we first saw Carl, we saw referee experience from him even though he had refereed basically at the small-college level."References
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