Gene Steratore

[bbcof83]

Originally Posted by MOofficial

I had no idea that the white hat in the New England playoff game also does D-1. He worked 4 d-1 games this week prior to his playoff game. Statsheet also has him listed as working a game on the 9th, the day before the football game.

There is an nfl official who lives in my area and he says that they have to be there at the game the day before so how does this work when he is doing a basketball game the day before?

Anyone else have some interesting information of some officials who work at high levels in more than 1 sport?

That explains why his mechanics are so much smoother and easier to look at than some NFL white hats. Mike Carey's herky jerky motions are painful to watch.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by bbcof83

That explains why his mechanics are so much smoother and easier to look at than some NFL white hats. Mike Carey's herky jerky motions are painful to watch.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees this when watching Carey.

[MOofficial]

Are you talking about the same Mike "I point 2 different directions when I signal who the penalty is on" Carey?

[fullor30]

Bill Carollo former NFL white hat and a Super bowl official was a Big Ten basketball official, but not at the same time.

[PIAA REF]

I know Gene personally, he is a great guy. He helped me a lot when I began to officiate. I was also coaching college at the time and we would have him on our games from time to time and he would spend an hour or so before he got ready for the game to talk to me about how my games were going, what I was doing well, what I was struggling with. He is just a great guy and IMO the Best football official out there.

[fullor30]

Originally Posted by PIAA REF

I know Gene personally, he is a great guy. He helped me a lot when I began to officiate. I was also coaching college at the time and we would have him on our games from time to time and he would spend an hour or so before he got ready for the game to talk to me about how my games were going, what I was doing well, what I was struggling with. He is just a great guy and IMO the Best football official out there.

He looks as smooth as Dino. Must be the Italian thing.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by bbcof83

That explains why his mechanics are so much smoother and easier to look at than some NFL white hats. Mike Carey's herky jerky motions are painful to watch.

Steratore's mechanics are definitely the smoothest I see from the NFL white hats. I think his basketball background has a lot to do with that. I think it's also his personality. He is a very cool cat in person.

[StripesOhio]

Or the way he flips off his microphone. Like he's snapping his fingers with bravado.

[GoodwillRef]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

Steratore's mechanics are definitely the smoothest I see from the NFL white hats. I think his basketball background has a lot to do with that. I think it's also his personality. He is a very cool cat in person.

They had a challenge by the Ravens yesterday about if Flacco got the first down or not and his explanation we excellent. Very smooth on the mic.

[Mark Dexter]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

Steratore's mechanics are definitely the smoothest I see from the NFL white hats. I think his basketball background has a lot to do with that. I think it's also his personality. He is a very cool cat in person.

Still have to give him hell over the "first down, wait - the chains weren't fully stretched - okay, not actually a first down" play.