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Originally posted by mick
I used to give all the counts, but I went: Left left, right right left left left right right right left right
...too many times to convince myself that it was worth anything. I remain unconvinced, but then I'm left-handed.
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mick -- for the record, I'm left-handed, too, but I gotta disagree with you. I hated the way it felt -- I felt like a bleepin' windmill. But at one of the biggest games of the season about two years ago, I was watching one of our best refs do exactly this routine. left left right right, etc. I figured if he could do it, I could too. When defense is playing tight, and the ball is being passed around the perimeter, it feels like an jazzercise routine, and it lets the coaches know that I am on top of things and in the game. At the beginning of the game, it sets the standard for that game, since I call it farther apart than a lot of folks. When the heat's on, it sends the message that the offense needs to keep working hard. In a blow-out, it lets the offense know that they can't "rest on their laurels."