Mike Pereira

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Mike Pereira is the National Football League's (NFL) Vice President of Officiating (formerly Senior Director of Officiating) since 2001, succeeding Jerry Seeman. He was also a game official in the NFL for two seasons (1996 and 1997) as a side judge on the officiating crew headed by referee Mike Carey ^[1]. He wore the uniform number 77.

Pereira appears on the NFL Network show, NFL Total Access, during the "Official Review" segment, to discuss key calls made during the previous week's games with host Rich Eisen every Wednesday during the season.

[edit] Notable accomplishments

Mike Pereira (left) debuts new NFL officiating uniform on NFL Network's, NFL Total Access

Created playoff officiating assignments based on cohesive crews who spent the season together instead of those who were rated the highest at their positions ^[2].

Instrumential in having down-by-contact calls reviewed by instant replay beginning with the 2006 NFL season to determine if a player fumbled the ball before he was down, and who recovered it. Previously, these plays could not be reversed once officials blew the whistle.

Assisted in the redesign of officiating uniforms worn with the start of the 2006 NFL season which are supposed to be more comfortable for officials to wear in extreme weather over the old polyester uniforms. The uniforms were designed by Reebok using Play Dry material techology to keep officials both warm and dry during the winter months of the season. On the shirt, the position and number are removed from the front pocket and the lettering and numbers on the back side are black-on-white and are smaller print and the sleeve shows the uniform number. Officials will also wear full-length black pants with white stripe during the winter months to stay warm. This was the first major design overhaul since 1979, when the position name was added to the shirt, but later abbreviated in 1982.