"Mike Pereira" is a former American football official (American football)/official and later Vice President of Officiating for the National Football League (NFL). Since 2010, he has served as a rules analyst for Fox Sports (United States)/Fox Sports.

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I can't say it's a concern. I don't track the crews on the number of calls. I track them on the percentage of correct calls, and Johnny's crew is right in line with the percentage of the other crews. I think they've had a couple of games that have lent themselves to lots of calls.

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You're beginning to cross the line there. That's directed to your opponent.

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In yesterday's Pittsburgh-New England game, the game clock was improperly reset early in the fourth quarter, resulting in 52 seconds being added to the game's official time.

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The on-field officiating crew, which oversees the official game clock operated in the press box, failed to recognize that the clock was improperly reset.

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To me, the mistakes we make on replay all come when we overturn when we shouldn't overturn.

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There's no going back, at least not in our game, so technology is something officials can't be scared of, ... It's up to them to train and work harder to meet that challenge. In that sense, I believe it's a positive and not a negative.

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As long as they don't direct it directly at their opponent or the opponent's bench, as long as it's a single-person act that's not directly facing the opponent, then we'll deem that it's not taunting, that it's cute and in some cases entertaining. It's done a lot for television. As long as it doesn't create ill will with their opponent.

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Nobody wants to be called the No Fun League. But we also don't want it to be ridiculous. We have to balance in here that kids do emulate what our players do. What we deem to be acceptable is not acceptable on other levels, like high school and college.

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