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Speaker 1: This year marks the tenth anniversary of Sarah Thomas becoming

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Speaker 1: the NFL's first full time female official. Thomas hired by

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Speaker 1: the league as a line judge for the twenty fifteen

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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen season in April of twenty fifteen. Was also

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Speaker 1: the first woman to officiate a college bowl game. Back

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Speaker 1: in two thousand and nine, Thomas was selected to officiate

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Speaker 1: in Super Bowl fifty five and twenty twenty one, becoming

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Speaker 1: the first woman ever to do so. For more women's

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Speaker 1: sports stories, subscribe A Good Game with Sarah Spain on

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Speaker 1: iHeart Podcasts.