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USAT: Chiefs Wire

Jan 29, 2022

- - - 13-year veteran NFL referee Bill Vinovich has been assigned to officiate the Kansas City Chiefs’ AFC championship game matchup against the Cincinnati Bengals according to Football Zebras. - His crew this week will be another all-star compilation as the NFL has done this entire postseason. Here are those officials and their original crew: - - Umpire – Fred Bryan (Martin) - Down Judge – Ed Camp (Hochuli) - Line Judge – Jeff Seeman (Cheffers) - Field Judge – Mearl Robinson (Hill) - Side Judge – Jonah Monroe (Boger) - Back Judge – Greg Meyer (Clark) - Replay Official – Mark Butterworth (Vinovich) - Replay Assistant – Larry Hanson (Allen) - - Vinovich last officiated the Chiefs’ Week 10 win over the Las Vegas Raiders. He also officiated the Week 1 win over the Cleveland Browns. Fans will likely recall Vinovich as the referee during the Super Bowl LIV win over the San Francisco 49ers. He’s always been known as a “let them play” official, which can be a good and a bad thing for this matchup. - Through 16 games this season, Vinovich and his crew have called the fewest penalties in the NFL with 148 penalties for 1,241 total yards with an average of just over nine penalties per game. His crew has called more penalties on the away team this season, which bodes well for Kansas City as they’ll play at Arrowhead Stadium. - The penalty breakdown shows that Vinovich called offensive holding (31) false start (24) defensive offside (13), defensive pass interference (12), unnecessary roughness (10) and delay of game (10) at the highest rates this season. For those who feel that Ja’Marr Chase got away with push-offs back in Week 17, Vinovich’s crew has called just three offensive pass interference penalties this season. - - List - - Final injury report for Chiefs vs. Bengals, AFC championship game - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Email - - - - - Sign up - - - - - - - - Like this article? - Sign up for the Chiefs Wire email newsletter to get our top stories in your inbox every morning - - - - An error has occured - - - Please re-enter your email address. - - - - - - Thanks for signing up! - - - You'll now receive the top Chiefs Wire stories each day directly in your inbox.

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