“My avocation is working as a football official in the Big 10 Conference. It is something that I enjoy beyond my ability to describe. Every weekend in the fall, I find myself on one Big 10 campus or another and I’m called upon on a Saturday afternoon to step between two teams of young men who are ready to tear each other’s heads off. I have to maintain control in that environment, and one of the ways that I have to do it is by knowing the rules backwards and forwards. I’m not able to take a time-out so that I can look something up. I have to know it going in. This is somewhat analogous to what I do during the week, where I have to use rules and laws, and I have to implement them in order to attain a particular result on behalf of my client. I really feel like my avocation complements my vocation. My officiating complements my work as an attorney. They’re somewhat linked; they’re somewhat related. I enjoy them both very much.”
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