I read this thread tonight not knowing what I would fine especially with all the negative media coverage this has been receiving.
For what it's worth, I'd like to extend thanks to all of you for the support of these officials. I am close friends with 3 of them, having know them for 15 years plus, and I will tell you, they are not having fun this week. They have risen to the level many of us aspire to attain, because they're excellent at what they do, but no one saw something like this coming. It is not the first time we have seen this, although not in a long while, and unfortunately, probably not the last.
Everyone here realizes this could happen to any of us.....and probably has to some of us. However, this is the microscope the DI fellas operate under....the game is SO much larger than all of us.
To borrow a line from The Godfather, "This is the life we've chosen for ourselves"......it's unfortunate that any of us can be victims of our own success.
They will rebound and recover and have this behind them largely because all of us are brothers in what we do and understand we are not perfect, but we will be perfect in how we support one another. So, thank you again.
I hope we all finish the season strong.
Yours in officiating,
Dave W
