GT: Sunday Playoff Games

[MickeyDavis]

Well now we know we face the winner of Atlanta/New York. Giants are 3 point favorites, Steelers 8.5.

Officiating info for game 1:
•R — #12 Carl Cheffers (12th year, 4th as referee)
•U — #96 Undrey Wash (12th year)
•HL — #110 Phil McKinnely (9th year)*
•LJ — #100 Tom Symonette (8th year)
•FJ — #80 Greg Gautreaux (10th year)*
•SJ — #125 Laird Hayes (17th year)
•BJ — #30 Todd Prukop (3rd year)

•Alternates — Scott Dawson (#70, U from Alberto Riverón’s crew), Mark Steinkerchner (#84, LJ from Terry McAuley’s crew)
*Substitutions: McKinnely substitutes from Jeff Triplette’s crew for Kent Payne; Gautreaux substitutes from Walt Coleman’s crew for Jimmy Buchanan. Buchannan is ineligible to work a conference championship or Super Bowl, as he is in his third season.

Cheffers’ crew did not have a postseason assignment last year; he last officiated a postseason game in the divisional playoff round in 2009, which was his first year of eligibility as a crew chief.

This crew worked the Week 2 game between the Eagles and Falcons.

Officials for game 2:

•R — #14 Ron Winter (17th year, 14th as referee)
•U — #49 Rich Hall (8th year)*
•HL — #52 Julian Mapp (3rd year)
•LJ — #108 Gary Arthur (15th year)
•FJ — #88 Scott Steenson (21st year)
•SJ — #62 Ronald Torbert* (2nd year)
•BJ — #83 Richard Reels (19th year)

•Alternates — Ed Camp (#134, HL from Walt Coleman’s crew), Dyrol Prioleau (#109, FJ from Scott Green’s crew)
*Substitutions: Hall fills in for Tony Michalek and Torbert is substituting for Tom Hill. Both substitutes are from Ed Hochuli’s crew. Torbert is a second-year official, so this is his first year of postseason eligibility.

Hall was an alternate at last year’s Super Bowl.

Winter’s last postseason game worked was a divisional playoff in 2009.

Winter’s crew officiated away games for both teams: a Week 6 Jaguars-Steelers game and a Week 10 Broncos-Chiefs game.

[MadCityBucky]

Go Falcons, please win.
Go Steelers, i dont want to hear anymore about Tebow

[humanrefutation]

I don't know, it seems a little odd that you decided to put that much effort into explaining the reffing assignments. It's not like this is the NBA or MLB.

[MickeyDavis]

My "effort" consisted of copy/paste

[TheMove]

Hope todays games are good. Would love to see a playoff game go to OT.

[Newz]

Go Falcons! (But I assume the Giants are going to dominance you)

[Dwade03]

Go Falcons and Go Broncos, I'm sick of the Tebow stuff as well but I think it'd be awesome to see the Steelers get knocked out.

[WiscoKing13]

I'm probably in the minority(by looking at the first few posts), but I'm cheering for the Giants over the falcons over the giants.

I think ATL's run game can destroy our defense.

[trwi7]

Frank's Picks made me lawl today.

[rilamann]

Giants 27
Falcons 23

Steelers 17
Broncos 13

[MickeyDavis]

He does a great Letterman/Schaeffer

[Reddeye]

I'm probably in the minority(by looking at the first few posts), but I'm cheering for the Giants over the falcons over the giants.

I think ATL's run game can destroy our defense.

Atlanta's run game and Turner especially isn't that great anymore. Half of their games this year were against terrible run defenses. Turner only had one 100 yard game against a good run defense and that was week 1 against the Bears in a blow out loss.

[MickeyDavis]

I much prefer instramental national anthems.

[rilamann]

I get a sense the Falcons are due for a playoff win today but I'm going to stick with the Giants.

[UWM_Brew_Buck]

Go Falcons.

[trwi7]

I much prefer instramental national anthems.

Yep. Hard to sing and no chance of butchering the words on instrumentals.

[MickeyDavis]

I agree with Howie, this game could get chippy. Falcons are dirty

[rilamann]

Falcons and Giants are the two of the most inconsistent and unpredictable teams in the league.


One week they can look really good and one week they can look really bad.

[trwi7]

Matty lawlz

[DigitalFool]

Do these teams need to be reminded this is a playoff game? Or are both teams scared of coming to Green Bay?