People are swooning over Super Bowl referee's jacked arms

 By 
Heather Dockray
 on 
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Refereeing has never looked so strangely, deeply sexy.

While not everyone loved referee Clete Blakeman's calls during tonight's Super Bowl, there was one thing they could agree on: his arms looked good.

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Reactions from across Twitter and Facebook were uniformly positive. Just how much did Blakeman work out? Why did he look so much like Anderson Cooper? Did he purposefully shrink his shirt so we could all drool in our seats?

And was his name actually, seriously Clete? (Yes. His legal name is Cletus).

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We're all whistling for you, ref.

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