What is it like to be the person in charge of the NFL's officiating department? What is it like to then shift to media life and be the biggest change to the way NFL games are broadcast since perhaps the introduction of the first-down line? In After Further Review: My Life Including the Infamous, Controversial, and Incredible Calls That Changed the NFL, Mike Pereira traces his story from his days as a young athlete to his time as a FOX commentator on officiating.
Like many who end up working in pro sports, Pereira was himself an athlete, playing baseball collegiately at Santa Clara and in the summers in Alaska, where he was inducted into the Anchorage Glacier Pilot Hall of Fame and still holds several career records.