SEC suspends Fla.-Ark. officials

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

"I saw out of the corner of my eye -- the play went over near the sideline," Curles recalls. "I'm trailing the play, moving in that direction. And out of the corner of my eye, I see a vicious blow, and I see the Florida player go flying down 20 yards behind the play. And in my mind, the Arkansas guy had blindsided him and knocked the player that was completely out of the play, which would have been a personal foul. Obviously, that isn't what happened. Where I made the mistake is I didn't see the whole thing. I didn't see how it developed. I saw out of the corner of my eye what I thought was a foul. I can't think something is a foul. I got to know it is. And that was my mistake. And I know better than that. What makes me mad at myself is that I know better than to call something if I didn't see the whole thing. And I've been sick about it ever since, quite frankly.

I had a white hat once whose mantra was "Call what you see, see what you call." He would repeat it everytime we gathered at midfield before breaking out to our kickoff positions, both halves, every game. Even would repeat it just before we left the locker room. I even repeat to my current crew, and get smiles from half of them because we worked under that particular white hat. I've lived by that mantra ever since he said it the first time, and not just in football, but my other sports as well. Curles is saying the same thing, albeit not verbatim, in his quote above (the bolded part).