WRITTEN OPTION 2

I feel as if I am something of a local expert on this subject, one could say this prompt was made for me as a referee of like 13 years. What makes a good official is a few different things, but every good official I've worked with over the years has had one common denominator: they can think their way through a game. Obviously the good ones try and be consistent and make the right calls, but we're human and there's no possible way to be perfect. There's plenty of ways you can be deceived by players and by your eyes or by the speed of the game. But the ones that can think their way through a game are the best. What I mean by that is that they call the penalties that should be called: changes of possession, dangerous plays, denial of scoring opportunities, but don't get bogged down in the weeds by calling ticky-tack shit and having a penalty sheet that's got 20 on each side.