Last season, I had a friend working a regional semifinal playoff game. He's slowed down a step or two, but still has great judgment and can easily handle an irrate coach. Moving from trail to lead, a player collided with him. The player ended up going over his teams' bench and my buddy ended up on the scorer's table. Not a pretty site.
If that wasn't bad enough, this happened the next week. The same guy is working the 4-A Boys State Championship game, the highest classification that we have in NC. The point guard kicks the ball out to his teammate on a fast break. Again, my buddy is going from trail to lead, and the player runs in behind him. My buddy ducks but the pass hits him dead in the forehead!
It wasn't too funny when it happened but we had a pretty good laugh about it after the game. I told him that the whole point in ducking is so the ball won't hit you.
