[JRutledge]

I know that we had some flags that people claimed were facing the wrong way. Just about everyone I know wore them this way with us only having the option to put them on our right shoulder. Someone in our meeting made the issue about the "retreating the flag." A board member in our group made an interesting point. He said "the flags were good enough for the Fire Department; they are good enough for an officials uniform."

sir_eldren,

I agree with you on this as well. I only wear the American Flag on my football crew. I do that because our crew wants to look the same. We work a lot of games together and it makes since. In my other two sports I do not wear a flag at all. One reason I do not is it is extremely rare to find fellow officials that even have a flag on their uniform at all. In basketball where I work with 2 other officials most of the time, one guy might have a shirt with a flag on it and another guy will not have one. So not only because of personal reasons do I feel I would rather not have a flag on my shoulder, you cannot get uniformed with fellow officials. It would have been a waste of money to buy shirts and have flags put on them if no one seems to have them. Sir eldren, I do agree that we do live in America and it seems really silly to have to judge someone's patriotism if you have one or not. I think it is a personal choice and I choose to not wear them outside of my crew. I have my reasons and it really does not matter what others think.

Peace