Officiating.com: There is an official down in Louisiana, a warrant officer in the National Guard, who wanted to ask this: Why do the NFL officials take all the crap from the coaches and the players? At our level, we see the issue as this: These kids see that crap on Sunday — no penalty — and come out on Friday night thinking it is OK to act the way the players do on Sunday.

Nemmers: The NFL has been that way since before I joined the league. I think there is a happy medium. I think that sometimes we take too much, but with due respect to players and coaches, after they have been warned, they never come back at me.

Officiating.com: Do you go to the coach and say “Coach, this is your warning”?

Nemmers: There is no doubt in his mind when he has received his warning. I don’t hear anything, though. The three guys in the middle [R, U, BJ] don’t hear anything; it is the four guys on the sideline who hear it. But when they turn around and give a warning to those coaches/players, the coaches know it. Of course, we have to see them say it [their comment]. That is the bad part. We know who is saying it, but we have to see them say it.

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