[just another ref]

This really happened. 6.5 seconds left, home team ahead by 1, shooting the 2nd of 2 free throws. On the release, V1 leaps out into the middle of the lane (I got the shooter!!) committing an obvious lane violation. Free throw is missed, violating kid gets the rebound, whistle for the violation, (hand never went down) and I look up to see the clock as it stops on 4.5 seconds. As I start to the table the visiting coach mumbles, "How many damn free throws they gonna get?" Several people heard this, I didn't. I get to the table, "We have a violation so we have 1 more free throw and we need to put 2 seconds back on the clock." Visiting coach is now officially unhappy, but I honestly don't know what he had to complain about. So now he says, loud enough for everyone to hear, "How in the hell can this happen!" I didn't even look in his direction. "Okay, now we have a T on the head coach over here, 1 more free throw plus 2 more for the T and red's ball, and we still need 6.5
back on the clock." Home team won, visiting team left without shaking hands, and this school went on to become the school with the famous principal that says if he sees me ready to call one of his games again he will take his kids and go home. Around these parts, this story has been told and retold throughout the land.