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Yes, I do call myself a referee...
and I never played HS ball. I also call myself a head linesman/line judge and I never played football (except for with my buds in the back yard). Ane I call myself an umpire and I never played t-ball or any form of organized baseball, unless you count slow pitch softball.
And I know the rules better and how to apply them better than any player or coach in all of those sports.
Was there a sharper learning curve? ABSOLUTELY, but I study and learned to work in the grey area and not the black and white.
(And I'm thinking about calling myself a volleyball referee and I've only played intramurals and and in the pool.)
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"Contact does not mean a foul, a foul means contact." -Me
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