Click the title to read Part I. Find out what happened in the Ohio State-Wisconsin game of 2004 and how a sport can degrade into a deadly game. In Part II, Ed lets us in on what we can do to stop this nonsense.

Truthfully, much of what you hear starting out fits officials regardless of the sport they work: Know the game, get into position, handle yourself with dignity. Don's going to talk about two different ones that are also always part of the sermon.

You won't get hurt going over them again.

As usual, you have to click the title.

You're U1 in Position A, and you turn too soon to cover a steal of second. Bingo: nailed in the back of the head by the catcher's throw.

You're the UIC. You remove your mask too soon on a foul popup and get hit by the catcher's mask.

You're the UIC, and you look up to locate a foul, followed by the catcher locating YOU as he's running for the catch. That will be followed by your locating the ground.

Or maybe you're anywhere on the field and you forgot your Under Armour. That's particularly hazardous in deep South Texas.

Inside you will locate two more mistakes: One is caused by laziness; the other, by pride.

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The football field is a sanctuary to those of us who have chosen to be officials. Why, with this love of the game, are we occasionally caught off-guard and experience "trouble in paradise"?

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