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[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by TRef21

There is book officiating and there is common sense officiating.

Why do people try to use something like "by the book officiating" as an excuse to not call a "T"? And why do people try to say that you need to use "common sense officiating" to back up what is only their opinion of what common sense actually is? If a coach calls you an azzhole with 5.4 seconds to go, are you going to ignore that also because if you call it, it's "book officiating" and not "common sense officiating"?

I guess that my idea of "common sense officiating" is completely different than yours. Common sense officiating to me means that you simply take care of bidness when you have to, without making up phony excuses why you shouldn't penalize unsporting conduct. Common sense officiating also means to me that you clean up the unsporting crap so that the next set of officials might not have to deal with it either.

We'll just have to disagree on the meaning of "common sense", I guess.