What Super Bowl 2023 referee Carl Cheffers does as a day job away from the NFL

Your Super Bowl 2023 referee for Super Bowl 57 is Carl Cheffers, who hasn’t made Kansas City Chiefs fans happy in the past.

But if you’re here, you might know that NFL officials don’t work for the league year round. They have day jobs — years ago, I detailed some of those NFL referee day jobs, from dairy farmer to lawyer to found of a sanity supply company.

So what does Cheffers do when he’s not throwing yellow hankies and wearing zebra stripes on Sundays? Per a feature on Referee.com, Cheffers works for a “a company that manufactures automobile batteries,” and apparently that’s Johnson Controls Batteries:

Carl Cheffers, when he is not an NFL referee, is a sales manager for Johnson Controls Batteries. He sells car batteries. pic.twitter.com/rZOhAJVLLF

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) January 13, 2019

There you have it.