By I.J. Rosenberg - For the AJC
Playing in the NFL for 15 years, former Falcons left tackle Bob Whitfield still lives and dies for football, watching his beloved Stanford Cardinal games on Saturdays from his home in Duluth and then on Sundays heading down to the Georgia Dome to see his former team in action.
Friday nights, however, he finds himself back on the field and not as a coach.
The 6-foot-5, 320-pounder some like to call “Head-butt Bob,’’ can be seen at any given metro Atlanta high school game, wearing stripes on shirt with a whistle in his mouth, officiating high school football games.