The NFL announced yesterday that two of the biggest names of the game are moving on. We know their names about as well as we know the names of many players from other teams, and there is no way to deny that they play a significant role in the games every week: the officials.
And we are seeing the ‘old guard’ move away now, a process that has sped up with the announcement that both Ed Hochuli and Jeff Triplette are calling it a career. Hochuli and Triplette are perhaps the two officials who are best known, especially the latter for his biceps.