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Originally Posted by Dan_ref
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That's called the "Earl Strom call". In his book, he says he would make that call. His rationalization was that if you call either a block or a charge, you're going to get one of the teams extremely upset with you, but if you call a travel, everyone's anger kind of deflates, no one gets charged with a foul and the penalty (a turnover) is not a big deal.
What a way to make a decision. However, he sure lasted a long time by doing stuff like this.