Clay Martin, NFL Referee
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Episode 303
Clay Martin is entering his fifth season as an NFL official, and his second as a referee. The former college point guard at Oklahoma Baptist University, is also a high school basketball coach at Jenks High School in Oklahoma.
Martin bias also a former NCAA Division 1 assistant basketball coach with Texas Pan-American under Bob Hoffman. His football officiating career began in 2005. He began his college career in 2007 with Conference USA as a line judge where he worked the 2011 Conference USA championship, the 2011 Outback Bowl, the 2012 Holiday Bowl, the 2014 Conference USA championship and the 2015 East-West Shrine Game.
During his time as a college basketball player with OBU, his team reach the NAIA championship game in 1997 and the quarterfinals in 1999. He was a third-team All-American in 1999 and an honorable mention All-American in 1998. Martin holds the OBU records for career assists and steals and scored 1,126 points in 122 games.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Clay about life as an NFL referee, how he became a football official after playing college basketball, what it looks like to incorporate his faith into his job, and his awesome story of coming to know Jesus as Lord.
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| 1:14.9 | Today on the podcast, we welcome Clay Martin to the show. Clay is an NFL referee. He's also |
| 1:20.9 | the varsity boys basketball coach at Jenks High School in Oklahoma. And this is such a unique story here and it's such a unique guess because, first of all, |
| 1:30.4 | Clay is the first NFL referee that we've had on the podcast. |
| 1:34.1 | So that's always fun to have a first that you can kind of dive into what his job entails |
| 1:39.4 | as an NFL referee. |
| 1:40.8 | But he's also a varsity basketball coach in high school. So he's got a unique perspective |
| 1:45.7 | here, both as a coach and as a referee. And he played his college ball. He played basketball in |
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