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Originally posted by Jimgolf
Why do the rules specify that shirts must be tucked in? Why no rubber bands? I understand rules that are for the safety of the players, but why specify appearance? Don't we have enough things to do without going around checking players for uniformity? Or are all of these rules because the schools don't have the guts to tell their players how to dress and get to blame the refs for a dress code?
Why do you care whether their shoes match or they're wearing their shirts backwards, for that matter? As long as they're not wearing anything dangerous to others or themselves, and you can see their number why should you care?
When you see refs telling kids to take off their tee-shirts in an unheated gym in the middle of winter, just because the tees don't match the uniform, it makes you wonder what kind of childhood these guys had.
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Although I'm from the cold white North I don't think I've ever reffed in an unheated gym. I've been in a few cool ones but after playing or reffing for a bit you warm up and don't feel it. If the player is sitting on their bench they can toss on the warm up shirt/suit or whatever since they aren't playing at that point.
Allowing players to wear a color t-shirt different than their uniform is giving them a potential unfair advantage (I'm not talking about staying warm here). If the t-shirt matches their uniform color they can wear it. If it doesn't it comes off.
What happens when you have red playing white and some red players have white t-shirts on under their uniform. At a quick glance in the heat of the game the red players may be mistaken as a white team member.
As for tucking in the shirts, players look really sloppy with their shirts hanging out. Some players have their shirts hanging out to hide the fact that their shorts are not pulled up. I'm not stopping the game to make sure players have their shirts tucked in - during a dead ball all you have to do is politely ask the player(s) to tuck their shirt in - if everybody did this, overall the job would be much easier. I just wish players would tuck their shirts in fully when asked the first time (rather than the token tuck).
The one rule that I don't quite get is the multi-colored head bands. Anybody want to explain that to me?