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Dealing With a Mistake

Every official has made a significant error, like blowing an inadvertent whistle, making an incorrect ruling, incorrectly enforcing a foul, or mishandling communication with a coach or player. Maybe a coach blew…

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Referee Signals

In our last Ready for Play article, we introduced the ‘Rule of Two’—a guideline for how officials should signal. This article provides a few best practices for referee signals. When blowing the…

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The Rule of Two

We use signals to communicate with our crewmates on the field. We use signals to communicate to game clock and play clock operators. And we use signals to show our judgment during…

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Avoid Tunnel Vision

One of the bad habits newer wing officials develop is staring straight down the line once they’ve reached the forward progress spot and squared off. For some reason, they have tunnel vision…

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