Silva D Referee

[Darnell Rempe]

Aftercompleting high school, Silva joined the United States Marine Corps and was honorably discharged a year later in 1946. Following his service in the military, Silva attended San Jose State University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in education in March 1950. At San Jose State, Silva played football and was a running back and linebacker.

Silva became first athletic director at San Jose City College and he coached football, basketball, baseball, and track teams during his tenure at the school. He led the football team to four championships during the 1950s and coached notable players that eventually played in the NFL such as Oakland Raiders quarterback Chon Gallegos and Chicago Bears offensive lineman Jim Cadile.

Following his coaching career, Silva began a career in officiating. Silva worked football, basketball, and baseball games as an official. He spent several years officiating at the collegiate level in the Pac-8 (now known as the Pac-12). In the Pac-8, Silva officiated basketball games involving Lew Alcindor (better known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), who played for the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Bruins from 1965 to 1969.

Silva joined the NFL in 1967 as a line judge on legendary referee Tommy Bell's officiating crew and was promoted to referee in 1969. The highlight of Silva's career was being selected as referee for Super Bowl XIV between the Los Angeles Rams and Pittsburgh Steelers in 1980. He would retire following the 1988 NFL season.

Silva and Jack Fette, another NFL official, sued the league for age discrimination in 1992. They accused the NFL of grading officials over age 60 more strictly than their younger colleagues. He and Fette split a cash settlement with the league. In an ironic situation, Fette finished his career in the NFL with a Super Bowl assignment, his fifth, during the 1987 NFL season after grading out with a perfect season. Fette stayed on for the next four seasons as an instant replay official.

A lifelong friend of Silva said, "Fred had a great sense of humor and a razor-sharp wit, which occasionally served him well in tense situations during NFL games. He was also a mentor to many younger people interested in athletics as a career choice."[2]

Silva was the referee for the 1981 AFC Championship Game between the San Diego Chargers and Cincinnati Bengals at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium. The game was played under the coldest wind chill temperature in NFL history. Air temperature was -9 F (-23 C), but the wind chill was -59 F (-51 C). The game would later become known in NFL lore as the "Freezer Bowl".

Otvio Jordo da Silva Cantanhede was a 20-year-old Brazilian amateur football referee[1][2] who was lynched, beheaded and quartered by football spectators after he stabbed a player to death in a match he officiated on 30 June 2013.[3][4]

On 30 June 2013, da Silva was refereeing an amateur football match in Pio XII, Maranho.[5][6] He sent off player Josemir dos Santos Abreu, 31, who refused to leave the field and began a fight with the referee. Abreu threw a punch, which prompted da Silva to draw a knife from his pocket and repeatedly stab Abreu. Abreu died on the way to the hospital.[3][7] When fans watching the game, including Abreu's friends and family, found out about his death,[8] they invaded the pitch[9] and stoned da Silva, before decapitating him, quartering him,[10] and putting his head on a stake in the pitch.[3][11][12][13][14] Police chief Valter Costa was quoted as saying "one crime will never justify another".[3]

Veteran referee Herb Dean had refereed four Anderson Silva fights prior to UFC 162 and seen others cageside. So when Silva began to clown Chris Weidman in the main event of this past Saturday's pay-per-view, he did little else but pay close attention.

"I didn't have any problem with it," Dean told MMAjunkie.com. "If that's what he wanted to do. Everybody is in there for their own reasons, and he's in there to do something great, and he challenges himself to be able to do his antics while he's right there in the danger zone, and he was doing his thing."

Unfortunately for Silva, that led to a different result than any of the other times he stepped into the octagon and toyed with his opponents. For the first time in his octagon career, his antics caught up to him when Weidman landed a left hook that sent him crashing to the mat.

"It was almost a replay of the pantomime that he had done," he said. "I saw him go down. I respond to it whether it's pantomime or not, but to be honest, I wasn't sure. But I'm going to respond and get in close to get a better look. Once I got in there and got a better look, he was unconscious to me."

Dean might actually have helped Silva wake up by pushing off the swarming Weidman. The deposed champ grabbed one of his legs as the new champ paraded around the octagon, enjoying the biggest win of his undefeated career.

Referee Dean has overseen hundreds of bouts in addition to his times in the cage with Silva, and was aware that he was part of history before he ever set foot in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. But like just about everyone, he wasn't expecting to see what he saw.

"You put two well-trained guys who are trying to take each other's will away, anything can happen," Dean said. "But the way it happened, to get caught in the middle of his antics, I think that was a little bit surprising."

Austin Silva, the Lake Highlands High senior who died tragically from complications after surgery to remove his wisdom teeth, was well-known around LH as a performer with the Wildcat Wranglers and a standout on the varsity tennis team. You may not know that the Lake Highlands Soccer Association also relied on Austin as a referee for youth soccer, and hundreds of young players trusted his direction each week.

The FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup 2022 represents the ultimate level of the game with teams, players and coaches working their whole lives to reach and experience this moment. But the same goes for Andreia Silva and Yana Nikogossyan, two of the 12 women referees, out of total of 23, who will be officiating games in Sydney.

And just like the players and coaches having taken their journey to represent their country on the biggest stage, so too is the case for the Brazilian Silva and Nikogossyan from Kazakhstan.

"I began as a player, but there was a small detail: I had no skill. But I loved the game and I found a way to still be involved with basketball," Silva said. "I started my career working in some U15 games for a time. After that, I worked my way up, with FIBA giving me a lot of opportunities."

The 42-year-old Silva holds a Black License and is one of the most consistent and experienced referees in FIBA competitions. She officiates consistently both women's and men's competitions. and she has already officiated at many major events. Among her past events are numerous FIBA AmeriCups, FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup 2018, as well as men's and women's games at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Back in 1983 there was no automatic disqualification for a player who picks up two unsportsmanlike conduct fouls. Today, the officiating crew has to be meticulous in reporting numbers of every player who fouled. The official scorers want to know. TV wants to know. And most importantly, the officials need to know since the guilty players have one foot out the door with an unsportsmanlike conduct foul. Also, the NFL will issue fines to the penalized players, so the list is important.

Today the referee gets the all fouls from all the officials and writes the numbers down and reads from a card, or another official stands off camera and shouts out the fouls and numbers of penalized players.

40-years ago this fall, Fred Silva and his crew had to put out a three-alarm fire at Shea Stadium. By the rules and mechanics of the day his crew handled it well. Today, there are many more steps to officiating, breaking up and penalizing a brawl.

Mark Schultz is a high school football official, freelance writer and journalist. He first became interested in officiating when he was six years old, was watching a NFL game with his father and asked the fateful question, "Dad, what are those guys in the striped shirts doing?"

"He always looks to force the referee to give them free-kicks in dangerous areas, he always acts in that way. We spoke with some players who play in Spain and the same thing happens, he looks to control the game and the referee's decisions.

Willian was sent off for handball, Silva himself for dissent and scorer Aleksandar Mitrovic for shoving the official in the space of 40 seconds but while the Portuguese said Fulham needed to control their emotions better, he criticised the official.

Silva claimed his own red car was not for anything he said, arguing: If I got the red card for being out of my area and that is the reason for the referee to give me a red card, I have to accept it. Of course I said something in that moment to him. That was not something for him to give me a red card.

The YouTuber-turned- boxer put his undefeated pro record on the line against the UFC legend, who himself went in having won his two previous boxing clashes since walking away from the octagon in 2020. And it was 'The Problem Child' who was ahead on all three scorecards going into the eighth and final round.

However, the margins could have been bigger had 'The Spider' not twice escaped a points deduction. He was warned by the referee he would lose a point at end of the third round, then again at the culmination of the seventh, for punching after the bell.

It wasn't the only notion with which Silva flirted with danger, with Paul himself warning his opponent at the start of the fourth for a perceived illegal move. Visibly frustrated with his opponent, the 25-year-old accused his rival of pulling his head down, which would also have resulted in a deduction had the referee agreed.

There was no such volatility after the clash though, with Silva admitting the better fighter won on the night: "Jake is better than me today because I tried to put my strategy into place," he conceded. "I talked to my coach in the room and I just couldn't find my distance. Jake was better than me tonight and that is it."

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