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What if your life hinged on a decision you had to make in a split second? Thats the compelling story of NFL referee Lance Easley. As a replacement referee during 2012s referee lockout, Easley thought hed earned his dream jobuntil he made a disputed call during a Monday night game viewed by more than 16 million people. Suddenly, Easley found himself the target of scorn, hatred, even death threats. Thankfully, his solid Christian faith helped see him through the controversy. In Making the Call: Living with Your Decisions, Easleyalong with bestselling cowriter Brock Thoeneexplains that life is about much more than making a single call. Its about deciding beforehand just how youll live with the calls you make.
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THE CALL
2013 by Lance Easley and Brock Thoene
Print ISBN 978-1-62416-753-9
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Adobe Digital Edition (.epub) 978-1-62416-853-6
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Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version", copyright 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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For Corina,
my soulmate and best friend
Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies.
Proverbs 31:10 KJV
Eight seconds. Thats all it took for my life to go over a cliff. Eight seconds.
I never thought it would happen the way it did. Not to me.
Of course, most people dont expect something earth shaking or life altering to happen to them. I know I didnt.
Maybe theres nothing unusual about someones life changing in eight seconds... or even less. You can fall in love with someone in an instant. You can be in a car wreck. You can weigh two job offers and choose one path over the other.
So whats the big deal about my eight seconds?
How many people have their moment of crisis play out in front of 18 million people? And what if, in the week and month following that momentary event, 50 million people had an opinion about itmostly not favorable? How would you respond?
Thats my story and the reason for this book, because you are going to have an unexpected circumstance in your life. As one of my mentors once said, Life is really one crisis after another. Dont let anyone tell you different. Youve either just finished a crisis. Youre in one now. Or youre about to be in one.
Thats the truth.
What matters most is how youre going to deal with your crisis when it happens. The only way to know is to have prepared ahead of time.
You see, life isnt about what decisions you have to make. Nobody can predict the answers ahead of time.
Success in lifesometimes survival in lifedepends on how youll live with the decisions you make.
And that is a choice you can make ahead of time, if you train for it.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
For a period of time afterward, I believed that everyone on the planet had watched Monday Night Football when The Call happened. Instead of just Green Bay and Seattle fans holding opinions about the game-ending play, everybody discussed it, slicing and dicing every second of replay and video footage (and me along with it).
In case you didnt actually see the game (and so we can review the circumstances right before the train wreck) heres how it went down.
It was a National Football League Monday night game on September 24, 2012. I was part of the officiating crew working the Green Bay Packers game versus the Seattle Seahawks, in Seattle.
This was the third regular-season game of 2012, following four preseason games that went back to August 13. Because of a contract dispute between the league and the regular officials, I had been recruited as part of a group of substitute officials.
This particular game had been a lackluster affair pretty much all night. Instead of a showcase for the offensive powerhouses both teams could be, this contest was a defensive struggle. Late in the fourth quarter the score was Green Bay 12: Seattle 7.
Aaron Rodgers, the spectacular, all-pro Green Bay quarterback, was sacked eight times... in the first half of play.
It was a really ugly game. As an official, I dont root for either side. In fact, when I review a game in my thoughts, its always about calls that we made. Did I get it right? Did I deliver my decision with confidence? Did we maintain control of the game, to keep the playing field level and the players safe?
This late in the game my judgment was that the officiating crew had delivered an excellent performance. Especially since Seattles CenturyLink stadium is widely regarded as one of the noisiest venues in the league. Its deafening, to the point of making it not only impossible to hear, but the volume of clamor nearly stifles your breath.
With less than two minutes left in the game, heres what happened....
Green Bay fumbles on their own 1-yard line. They recover the fumble but cant advance the ball past the 4-yard line, so end up punting it away.
Seattle receives the punt on the Green Bay 46-yard line, and there is no return.
By now only 57 seconds are left on the clock, with no remaining Seattle time-outs.
As the side judge Im along the Seattle sideline. I have the strong suspicion, based on experience, that pass plays will be coming my way.
The next Seattle play from scrimmage is an incomplete pass.
Forty-one seconds remain.
Then the Seahawks quarterback, Matt Wilson, tosses a midfield completion to Sidney Rice, good for 22 yards.
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