The dean of NFL referees has died.

Jim Tunney, who worked some of the most memorable games in NFL history over the course of his 31-year career, died Thursday at his home in Pebble Beach. He was 95.

Tunney got his start as a field judge in 1960 and over the decades he worked games so singular that they garnered their own nicknames: The Ice Bowl was the 1967 NFL Championship between Dallas and Green Bay, so called because the temperature was about −15 °F with an average wind chill around −48 °F; The Catch, the 1981 NFC Championship game in which San Francisco beat Dallas by one point got its name after Dwight Clark made a leaping catch at the back of the end zone on a pass from Joe Montana; and then there was The Fog Bowl, a playoff matchup between Philadelphia and Chicago in 1988 where the fog was so thick that players could...