re you the type official who begins a football game looking for something to call or is your approach the opposite and you look for ways to avoid flags? I think the latter comes out ahead.
There are enough things to call in the average football game without having to look for things or make things up! One of my longtime referee’s favorite sayings is, “I don’t mind going and looking at a film with a coach complaining about something you didn’t call, but I hate to go look for something that's not there!" If you go out looking for something, that increases the odds that you will find it, so in the interest of getting it right, let’s not look for trouble.
Continued...
Please sign in to read the rest of this article: