I saw something on the news a while back...mmmm...can't remember how long ago but it was a sports highlight that showed an official being punched HARD, knocked out, blinded for life I think, that was in Europe or something. Did anyone else see that? also, how many of you are in states where it is a felony to assault any game official? in AZ we tried to get it to be like a class one felony, but it died in the state senate. There's some articles about it in the following:
http://www.cactusumpires.com
just click on the box under the cactus and scroll down to "assault legislation".