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Originally posted by Gman34

Frankfort-2/Campbellsville-3. The setting presented an odd situation. The field is right in the middle of a subdivision where several people were perched of roofs/scaffolds to watch the game. Some had consumed a few adult beverages. They were really getting after the opposing players. Some of the players got rattled and started barking back and making gestures. There were some racial slures made and one player even accused one of the officials of making one.

It was a good game but I think the visiting team let it get to them and it eventually got the best of them. Since the problem(s) were coming from outside the stadium fence, it was obviously out of our control and pretty much out of the game admin's control. There was never a safety concern or we may have had to do something. However, we weren't getting in the middle of a name calling match. There were too many officers there to handle that and it didn't seem to be a problem with them. We were just concerned with handling the players and trying to keep them in the game and without too many UC's for language and gestures.

Has anybody ever run into a situation like this? If so, how did you handle it? It may be worth reporting to the state assoc and copying the school.

This is like being at Wrigley Field with the fans on top of the roofs. Terrible thing to have with fans and such, nothing you can do about this. Maybe stop the game and have the police who are at the game site monitor the behavior and if it escalates, call outside police to stop the behavior outside. I probably would have done something like that if fans were using racial slurs toward the players.

So what was the crew member accused of?