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A Tribute to Ray Lutz Ray Lutz was a significant football mentor from my rookie year in 2007 until his death in December 2017. I was blessed to participate in many of his crew meetings and video reviews and enjoyed multiple personal conversations. Ray\u2019s tutelage helped establish much of my football officiating foundation. Ray\u2019s \u201cForward Progress\u201d posts to the Colorado Springs Football Officials Association were the inspiration for my own \u201cReady for Play\u201d posts to my crew. The Ready for Play posts are the source for many of this website\u2019s articles. Ray was a well-known sports official for over five decades.…<\/p>\n","category_list":"","author_info":{"name":"Paul","url":"https:\/\/artofofficiating.com\/author\/officebradtechsolutions-com\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artofofficiating.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artofofficiating.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artofofficiating.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artofofficiating.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artofofficiating.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/artofofficiating.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1227,"href":"https:\/\/artofofficiating.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1180\/revisions\/1227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artofofficiating.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}