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OK, I know that most people feel it's taboo to officiate a game in which your child is playing.
My question is this. What about the chain crew people? Should they be allowed to work the chain crew if they have a kid playing the game?
I ask for a reason. This past weekend, some guys in my association had a situation where one father on the chain crew was constantly critical of the ball spots and first down calls. At one point, the R called a first down and the guy on the crew at first refused to move the chains when asked to by the Head Linesmancause he didn't think it was a first down. THe first down, obviously, had been awarded to the other team. The game was on this parent's home field. Anyhow, to get to the short of it, after the next play, which ended with the runner going out of bounds near the chain crew, after the HL turned to take care of getting the ball back in and such, the parent on the chain crew threw the down marker and hit the HL in the back. He was dismissed immediately. This was a Pop Warner game being played under NFHS Rules.
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