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Old Thu Feb 05, 2004, 03:56pm
Jurassic Referee Jurassic Referee is offline
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Originally posted by CYO Butch
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Originally posted by Dan_ref

I broke my rule recently, talking to fans....

"Oh...what DO you care about?!" to which I answered "I just care that I get out of here before 9 o'clock."

An official with a good sense of humor can't be bad, but I don't think you helped your profession by saying that you want to "... get out of here before 9 o'clock." There is a perception that since officials are paid by the game, they want to keep things as short as possible. Cynics don't need any fuel for that opinion.

Actually, on page 33 of the Mechanics Manual, it states that it's OK to piss off fans.
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