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The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the player who is inclined to fret inwardly about decisions should realize this.

In every game, there's three teams out there. There's the two basketball teams and the team of officials. If the two teams are evenly matched, it can come down to number of possessions. If one out-of-bounds call goes the wrong way, that can be the difference.

A lot of different things go into calling the run game - especially at the line of scrimmage.

I would say the referees have the toughest game to call. I would say that there's a lot of officiating done by announcers, local announcers. Sometimes you should listen to a game from both feeds, and you'd think you were listening to completely different games.

You don't notice the referee during the game unless he makes a bad call.

I think it is time to call it a day, and watch the game from the stands.

I think that it won't be long before a team calls that says, 'Just go do what you do'.

The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw.

Game calls can't be just, 'Oh, by the way,' as part of a larger discussion.

When you are hoping for a call or want something different, I think you lose your edge.