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Originally posted by JLK
Was working a State tournament game last weekend and had the following happen to me...
About 3 minutes left in the 2nd quarter, I went to report a foul and my whistle/lanyard is now in my hand. Thinking the lanyard just slipped off the loop, I went to put it back on only to find out that the loop is broke. Now, usually I wear a noose style lanyard but I wanted to make sure my partner and I matched so I had not brought one along (I did have any extra whistle/smitty lanyard with me but with a busted loop, this was not going to help either).
Needless to say, I didn't want the lanyard just flapping around when I was running so I took the lanyard off and did strickly the whistle (Just had to remember not to spit the whistle out when making a call). In watching the game tape, you can see me holding the whistle in my hand on dead ball situations in a couple of occasions
At half time, I just switched shirts. Fellow officials sitting in the stands had a good laugh.
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Same thing happened to me this year too...albeit not at a state tournament. It was about 2 minutes into the game...Luckily the gym I was working has the officials room about 20 feet from the court...so between 1st and 2nd quarters I hurried and changed...and got back out for the warning horn
.... don't know if the whistle had anything to do with it, but we had 16 fouls total for the whole game...4A varsity boys (largest wyoming classification)...so maybe I should pack it in my hand more often LOL...