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In rhythm with their short patterns, he takes two steps forward and two steps back, as if following the play and ready to make a call. Meanwhile, Corrente, 55, watches the quarterbacks, noticing that the Jaguars' David Garrard has a longer windup than Atlanta's Joey Harrington James Taylor . Whereas Garrard brings the ball up along his right hip as he drops back to pass, Harrington lifts the snap from center straight up to his chest. The significance?Garrard's style makes him more susceptible to getting stripped by a pass rusher raking the ball out of his hand from the side, which is important for a referee to note james taylor line 'em up . After all, it's his job to peel through a pile and figure out who has recovered any loose ball. And, sure enough, in the second quarter, Garrard fumbles after being hit by Atlanta's Jonathan Babineaux fire and rain. Fortunately for the Jaguars, center Dennis Norman pounces on the ball and Jacksonville maintains possession. An easy call because Corrente was ready. During the week, Corrente works with a total of about 180 students. On a typical fall Sunday, his audience is closer to 15 million -- though if all goes as planned he and his crew will be seen and heard, but never truly noticed. If the players get rock star treatment, an official's weekend excursion might be compared to that of a high-level foreign diplomat -- only without any potential for a night on the town. It's Saturday afternoon, about 24 hours before game time, and no sooner does Corrente step into the lobby of his hotel when the phone rings at the front desk. It's NFL Security making sure that he has his credentials, review material and a dozen footballs set aside specifically for the kicking game. These balls, called "K-balls," are sealed in an overnight delivery box behind the desk steamroller taylor . At the game, they will have their own security -- someone whose only job is to ensure no one tries to replace one with a ball that has been cooked in a microwave, crunched in a vise or otherwise worn in to make it perform better. A short time later, Corrente takes out his laptop and sets it on a long table inside a hotel meeting room. Soon, game action is being projected onto a large screen, and for two hours the crew pores over disputed, questionable or otherwise noteworthy calls from their last game and others around the league. "We have to learn from our mistakes and others' mistakes," Corrente says later. "Because if we don't learn from them, we won't be around long enough to make them all ourselves. "Even before this meeting, crew members have studied tape from their previous game, submitted reports on the calls they made, and have taken their weekly 50-question test on NFL rules. The league also has provided its evaluation of the crew's performance from the week before -- an always brutally honest assessment that can even include a critique of how athletic and tidy the officials look in uniform. "They'll say, 'You're not looking fit,' " says Corrente, who works out five days a week and is meticulous about staying trim "People say TV adds 10 pounds, and you know what that means.
Put it this way: We want to look more like the defensive backs and running backs than offensive linemen. "Sunday, 10:20 a. m. , less than three hours before kickoff -- About 30 police and private security officers are waiting as a van carrying Corrente and crew rolls through a special entrance at Jacksonville Municipal Stadium. Police use a bomb-sniffing dog to check their bags, then they are escorted to their locker room. The room is small, but it has a table with sandwiches and cookies and a cabinet with all the essentials: sunblock, aspirin, foot powder, athletic tape, energy bars, bubble gum and Tums. 10:29 a. m -- Two ball boys arrive to prepare the K-balls james taylor her town too . They have precisely 45 minutes to do so under the supervision of Brian McGready, the kicking-ball coordinator, a league-appointed official who lives in Jacksonville and works the Jaguars' home games handyman taylor . The ball boys do what they can to break in the brand-new footballs, but are allowed to use only water and soft-bristled brushes. 10:32 a . m king taylor . -- Still in street clothes, five members of the crew make their first visit to the field, and the temperature is already starting to climb chords taylor . By kickoff, the on-field thermometer will register 108 degrees, the humidity making it feel even hotter James Taylor - jamestaylor . That's this week. Next week, who knows? Last season, Corrente's crew worked a game in Green Bay when it was 12 degrees at kickoff -- and below that counting the wind-chill. Whatever the weather, an NFL referee walks, jogs and runs an average of 6. 6 miles during a game For a back judge, it's 7. 3. 10:40 a. m.
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