If you have any questions about football officiating, please do not hesitate to reach out and ask me. I am here to help fellow officials be successful and prepared for your officiating season.
For all of the football officials out there, I think there are 2 books that you must have. If you are officiating high school football, you need to get the NFHS “High School Football Rules Simplified and Illustrated.” This book is a wealth of knowledge! If you have read through the regular rule book before, it is very likely that sometime while reading it you dozed off. It just has that affect. Everything is so technical with all the exceptions and to follow you have to jump back and forth pages. Well this simplified and illustrated rule book is what the title says! And who doesn’t love a good picture book! This book breaks down the different rules and puts them in a way that actually makes sense. Plus, almost all of the rules come with a picture to help you visualize the rule. If you would like to look at this book or order it, it can be found here . The next book is the “Football Officiating Mechanics Illustrated” by Jeff Stern. For high school you will usually get the book for 4 a...
Deciding if you want to take the leap to officiate football and getting started in officiating can be the hardest part. When many people are deciding if they want to officiate, they think about the pressure they will be under, the people yelling at them, being busy and traveling on Fridays and Saturdays and if they can know the rules well enough to do a good job. But what people don’t think about is the good that can come from officiating. I am here to help show you the positives of officiating and help encourage you to take the leap and decide to officiate football, or decide it is something you are going to continue if you are already starting. Besides the fact that for the amount of time you actually work a game you get paid very well, there are many other benefits. Being an official will undoubtedly help you develop many skills such as communication, composure, test taking skills, teamwork and keep you in shape! Knowing that you will have to be keeping up with very fast studen...
For those officials out there eager to learn things beyond just the rule book, blogs are a great place to look. My recommendation to you is to go to football zebras blog. Once there search for the post called “Calm Signals: the sign of under-control officiating.” This post does a great job of explaining how we as officials communicate and show we belong in the stripes on the field with the signals we give. No matter if it is an incomplete pass, fumble recovery, or penalty enforcement, we as officials must also know our signals are being watched and reflect on us. As the post points out, there are some plays that are very exciting, to the point everyone is on their feet cheering. However, the official has to have composure and take the whole play in. They can’t look excited for a team and they must show through there signals that they have been there before and are a professional. However, like the post by football zebras accurately mentions, sometimes a big signal is necessary...
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