Mike Pereira
Mike Pereira
Mike Pereira is a former American football official and later Vice President of Officiating for the National Football League. Since 2010, he has served as a rules analyst for Fox Sports...
cannot clearly looking
It's not clearly indisputable from what I saw, ... I cannot see the ball, and those are the same replays the referees were looking at.
act cases create cute deem direct directly facing ill opponent
As long as they don't direct it directly at their opponent or the opponent's bench, as long as it's a single-person act that's not directly facing the opponent, then we'll deem that it's not taunting, that it's cute and in some cases entertaining. It's done a lot for television. As long as it doesn't create ill will with their opponent.
believe harder meet officials positive scared technology train work
There's no going back, at least not in our game, so technology is something officials can't be scared of, ... It's up to them to train and work harder to meet that challenge. In that sense, I believe it's a positive and not a negative.
beginning cross directed line
You're beginning to cross the line there. That's directed to your opponent.
game question start
You really start to question about what the game is all about.