The officiating crew for Sunday's AFC Championship Game between the New England Patriots and Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium has been revealed by Football Zebras.
Here's the NFL's crew:
Referee: Clete Blakeman
Umpire: Bryan Neale
Down judge: Dana McKenzie
Line judge: Kent Payne
Field judge: Terry Brown
Side judge: Brad Freeman
Back judge: Greg Meyer
The Patriots have a 3-5 record in games where Blakeman was the referee. He became a referee in 2010 and worked as a field judge before that.
Blakeman was also of the two officials who measured the air pressure in the footballs at halftime of the Patriots' 2015 AFC Championship game against the Colts, which started the whole "Deflategate" controversy.
His two most recent games involving the Patriots were Week 3 of this season when New England lost 26-10 to the Detroit Lions and last year's AFC Championship victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars. Blakeman also was the referee during the Patriots' infamous loss to the Carolina Panthers in 2013.
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