Referee Whose Coin Didn’t Flip Will Head Super Bowl 50 Crew

NEW YORK (AP) – Eighth-year referee Clete Blakeman will work his first Super Bowl on Feb. 7 when the Carolina Panthers play the Denver Broncos at Santa Clara, California.
The NFL announced Wednesday that Blakeman will handle his sixth postseason game. He refereed Green Bay-Arizona in the divisional round, when he needed to redo the coin toss for overtime when the coin didn’t flip.
Jeff Rice, the umpire from Blakeman’s crew, also got a Super Bowl assignment, his third. He was on