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Going back to Valentine's "soft" whistle, I was at a meeting once in which two officials were somewhat arguing about using your whistle to "sell a call". One said it was important to do so to appear assertive. The other said just the fact that he made the call was assertive enough. He went on that he didn't have "anything to prove" to the coaches or players about his calls and that when he made a call, that was all he needed to do. If a coach or player disagreed with his call, so what? It wasn't his responsibility to justify his calls to them.
I thought it was an interesting discussion.
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