I am a stickler for a pregame. My crew worked the entire season together and we still had a pregame before every game.
One season we lost track and dismissed pregames. Bad mistake. I demand everybody to sit for a 20 minute pregame where we discuss the game and only that game. Sometimes it is a repeat of earlier pregames. But it works.
Our crew is a 4-man crew and in the preseason we had an extra point that I as the referee could not see if it was over the crossbar. So we decided to have the LJ move to position after the snap where he could see if the ball went over the crossbar.
We reviewed that in every pregame. Then late in the season on an extra point the ball hit the upright and bounced. Was it over? One look at the LJ with thumbs down and a routine signal of no good.
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