Art McNally spent 58 years in the NFL, first as a referee and then as an officiating executive. Throughout the decades, he publicly listed the phone number of his suburban Philadelphia home. Let's just say it rang a lot, courtesy of fans who were certain McNally's officials had conspired against their team.
"Art would answer the phone every time," his son-in-law, Brian O'Hara, said. "As long as they didn't curse or yell, he would talk to anybody that called.
"They would be upset and would tell him how wrong the officials had been in the game. And usually, the officials hadn't been wrong.