Walt Coleman
- Referee: 65 – Walt Coleman
- Umpire: 44 – Jeff Rice
- Head Linesman: Wayne Mackie
- Line Judge: 10 – Ron Phares
- Field Judge: 33 – Steve Zimmer
- Side Judge: 16 – Dave Wyant
- Back Judge: 83 – Richard Reels
Walt Coleman is an American football official in the National Football League (NFL) since 1989. Coleman served as a line judge for the first six seasons before being promoted to referee at the start of the 1995 NFL season. Over his NFL career, he has worked two conference championship games (1998 and 2003). Coleman wears the uniform number 65.
Coleman worked for the Arkansas Activities Association, the governing body for high school athletics in Arkansas, for 14 years before moving up to the college level. His college officiating career included five years in the Southland Conference (Division I-AA) and five years in the Southwest Conference (Divsion I). He was never promoted to referee during his college officiating career, which was unusual for officials eventually hired by the NFL.
Coleman resides in Little Rock, Arkansas and is a fifth-generation family operator of Coleman Dairy.
Outside of officiating, Coleman serves on many local boards and associations including the Little Rock Boys and Girls Club and Greater Little Rock YMCA. Coleman is a former president of the Arkansas Dairy Products Association and Major Sports Association of the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce.
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I am so disgusted with the referee calls against the Balt Ravens!! Any team they play against can commit penalties that are rarely called but let a Raven player commit the same penalty & the refs call it on the Ravens! They especially seem to love calling penalties against the Ravens that the Ravens have not even committed. Like today, the bronco player was definitely holding Derrick Mason but Derrick Mason ended up getting a 15 yard penalty for throwing his helmet behind the Raven’s bench. Come on, Refs, your bias against the Ravens is so obvious. Be professional, PLEASE!
its walt coleman & his crew bj. that should clarify everything
Thanks 9er fan! Very interesting!
I definately agree the raven’s get the short end of the stick alot. The controlled the broncos though, which I was happy to see. I was hoping to have no AFC unbeatens left, but Indy pulled it out…
I get what your aying about the Ravens, they really nailed them against the Patriots. I believe its a ratings game. The opening drive in the Vikes/Pack game the pack fumbled and they called it somehow dead by foward progress. Really funny that the Vikes ripped it out of his arms. Then they held J Allen by both sleeves. They showed it in replays. Whats up with the announcers not saying anything about the bad calls. I dont watch wrestling, but I am starting to feel like thats where the NFL is getting there reffs.
Cheering for the cowboys/Coleman and Co. are terrible both ways, seen terrible calls all around.
The QB sneak call a terrible call. The review of the QB sneak and deciding the play stood was incompetence
For the ref to overrule an official on the field there has to be undiputable evidence. On the QB sneak you can not see where his other had is so it may or may not be on the ground.
Being an official is tough and even with replay it is hard..
“Amazing when we did our weekly check, we noticed that this team, (officiating), here led the league in penalty flags. I don’t know if they get flag bonus checks or something.”
Interesting that reporters noticed the same sorry officiating as millions of viewers. Seems as we are in a Police State from the White House to Sports!!
What ever the cause of their antics the field judges blemished a great game and certainly controlled how a multimillion dollar event was seen. For myself a suspicion that Big Time Gambling controlled their, “The Dallas/ Philadelphia, referees’,” activities.
I’m not that savvy when it comes to football, but I do like to watch and am a big fan. However, is there no accountability with the referees? It is frustrating and maddening to constantly hear the analysts say that the referees made a bad call. These are the professionals, and during every game it seems that we hear that.
Did Cris Collinsworth give an exact method-the beak of the Eagle on the field- to determine where the ball should be spotted and that it did go over the line in last night’s Eagles/Dallas game? Couldn’t any of the officials on the field or upstairs in the booth have thought of that too?
Why do the owners and the teams put up with this? What about the networks? All the public wants is a legitimate game, not one where we hear several times during each game that the referees got it wrong.
Yup! they are Professionals, just as our politicians are Professionals that think they are above the rules of the game!!
Gary, about the QB having his unseen hand on the ground on the sneek. There were two or three linemen under him so his arm would have to be pretty long. I think referees are punished when they really make a bad game changer like the QB sneak spot in the Phila/Dallas game. Refs are rated and the lower rated don’t get the better paying playoff games. With that said, the official must have been pissed at Phla for him to not correct his mistake in review.
Does anybody know the details of how the refs are rated and given the better playoff games?
Thanks for blowing the game Walt…
By middle of third quarter I told my girlfriend, “they are not gonna let the Eagles win this one” It was Soooooo obvious…
It’s Refs like this guy that make me think all of them have certain teams they want to succeed and some they don’t so they really do force an outcome. There is only so much bull a good team can overcome… Congrats to Cowboys LOL although I know you cannot be happy with that win… See you in week 17…
The calls in the Eagles game looked biased in favor of the Cowboys but McNabb really looked terrible. He doesn’t seem to connect with his wideouts much when he faces a good D. Good thing he has a good te and rb’s that can catch the ball out of the backfield. His down the field accuracy leaves something to be desired unless he plays a totally shitty defense. Just my opinion.
In California today, 11/09/2009, on sports talk, it was disclosed that the head referee that had the Eagles – Cowboys game is from the same small hometown in Arkansas that Cowboys owner Jimmy Jones is from. Huuuuuum. How did that get past the NFL Head of officials. The guy own a large dairy farm there.
The Eagles-3 pick was doomed from the start. I wish I had known beforehand. Now that I know about this site, I will be prepared.
Not suprising.
I thought it was Jerry Jones??
it is warren. haha
the calls these days are just getting worst and worst soon u wont be able to touch the running back when he runs. im so sick of all the calls there bull crap the refs should let them play. as head coach jim mora said in the game against the cardinals. the super bowl between the steelers and seahawks was the worst officiating ive ever seen. and now reguler season games are getting like it to
In a rare move, the NFL’s head of officiating, Mike Pereira, indicated after reviewing the game what everyone else watching the game new — that Coleman had blown the call.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/288841-mike-pereira-i-think-id-move-it
To my knowledge, this is the first time Pereira has told the truth about one of Coleman’s ridiculous calls; the lengths he went to last year to justify the blown Santonio Holmes non-TD in the Steelers-Ravens game was just sad. Perhaps even the NFL is starting to realize this crooked official does not belong on the field.
Walt Coleman should not be an official at all!! Even Pop Warner games.
One of the administrators (Zzyzx11) at Wikipedia appears to be related to Mr. Coleman; any negative edits about Coleman’s numerous “controversial” calls are either edited out, or else he throws in a ton of superfluous information, like the scores of games that Coleman didn’t officiate, the number of teams that have advanced to the Super Bowl after winning the AFC Championship, etc. He’s especially sensitive about Coleman’s call last year in the Ravens-Steelers game, going so far as to attacking all Ravens fans in the comments section.
Why not stop by and express yourself? Wikipedia is an open project…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Coleman
This Chic-Minn game is terrible…I’ve seen more penalties called than plays run…
Walt Coleman is horrid…
So I am guessing that Walt Coleman and his dumbass crew were paid off by the Giants tonight….since Brandon Jacobs didn’t get shit for punching one of the Redskins…You referees are getting worse and worse every year……you blind ass dip-shits