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It's funny that this thread is here. I'm new to this area and I've noticed that guys are always calling the smallest/borderline travel calls. When I started there was some sort of saying about not letting travel be your best call. There are many officials here who have traveling as there #1 call. If it is obvious then call it. If it is borderline and no advantage is gained then let it go. A patient whistle helps here a lot.
The funny part about this thread is I just got back from a over-30 game and one of the refs called travel on me. I was in the key, not the lane, and he called it from the lead. I looked at the trail and he said "I didn't call it Tom" with a smile on his face. The thing that pissed me off was 1. I work in the organization that does these games and I work with the official that called it and we are becoming friends since I've been in the area. We are going on a cruise in September together with our wives. He called me last night to shoot the breeze and we talked about me traveling. I said "yeah I know I do it sometimes and I don't even say anything." Also one of the things I always harp on him about is calling out of his area. The plays that I tell him about is the fact that I can have a play right in front of me and he will blow it. I mean blatantly wrong calls out of his area. Well, this was not one of the times I traveled. He told me after the game, which my team won, that he saw it out of the corner of his eye and he was focused on something else. Huh? He should have left it alone since he didn't have a good look and it was out of his area. I wouldn't have even said anything to him about it except, like I said, we are becoming friends and in this relationship I'm the "big brother." Oh well we won.
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