Selling Calls

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Rich

A close block/charge. One is going to emphasize that decision differently than a routine out of bounds call. Like it or not, that's selling the call.

I'm not sure that there really is a good bad call, but my former local interpreter used to say that "The best bad call is a strong bad call". I believe that he meant that if an official is always making confident calls, signals, voice, posture, etc., that he may be able to get away with an occasional bad call that a wishy washy signal, voice, or posture, wouldn't get away with.