"You're a football ref, an ordinary man, 60, 65 years old. You're not making the big millions like the football players, but you've got one thing. You've got a button on a belt. And you know that all you've got to do is click that puppy on and for the first time in your whole stupid life, the entire country is listening to every word that comes out of your mouth." -- comedian Richard Jeni at the 1995 ESPYS
The job of an official is to blend into the scenery. Manage the game, throw the flags and, unless you make a particularly egregious mistake, you're forgotten.