Carl Madsen, who died Sunday, labored as a replay official earlier within the day for the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and Tennessee Titans sport at Nissan Stadium in Nashville. Picture by Walker Kinsler/Wikimedia Commons
Oct. 26 (UPI) — Carl Madsen, who labored as an NFL official for greater than twenty years, died on his approach house from working a Week 7 sport between the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and Tennessee Titans in Nashville, the NFL mentioned. He was 71.
The NFL introduced Madsen’s demise Monday. A Nashville Police Division spokesman informed UPI on Tuesday that Madsen suffered “medical emergency” whereas driving northbound Sunday on Interstate Freeway 65 close to downtown Nashville.
Madsen had labored as a replay official in the course of the sport.
Officers acquired calls a few automobile blocking a lane on the interstate, the police spokesman mentioned. An emergency crew responded to the scene and located Madsen unconscious.
First responders broke the passenger facet window of the locked automobile and tried to revive Madsen, however had been unsuccessful. He was transported to a close-by hospital, the place he was pronounced lifeless. His explanation for demise has not been introduced.
“Carl Madsen was an NFL officiating fixture for greater than twenty years, first as a extremely revered on-field official earlier than transitioning to a replay function starting in 2009,” NFL senior vp of officiating coaching and improvement Walt Anderson mentioned in a press release.
“Carl’s love of soccer and dedication to officiating was ever-present, as he generously shared his time to mentor younger officers at clinics throughout the nation,” Anderson mentioned. “A veteran of the Air Power, Carl had an incredible spirit and will probably be vastly missed.”
Madsen was as an on-field NFL official from 1997 to 2008.