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Your Super Bowl 2025 referee for Super Bowl 59 is Ron Torbert, a seasoned veteran who has worked an NFL title game before — he was the referee for the Bengals and Rams Super Bowl a few years ago.
And if you’re here, you might know that NFL officials don’t work for the league year round. They have day job. Years ago, I detailed some of those NFL referee day jobs, from dairy farmer to lawyer to founder of a sanitary supply company.
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So what does Torbert do when he’s not throwing yellow hankies around and wearing zebra stripes on Sundays? Per Harvard Magazine in 2022, he’s a lawyer who practiced “as a business litigator for three decades.”
There you have it!