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The reason for asking about alumni working their game is below.
During an announcers introduction (early in the season) of players and officials for the JV game, stated one officials name (also assigned to the varsity game to follow) as an alumni of the home team and a classmate from the 1970 class. The visitors during the varsity game, was unhappy with a couple of the officials DPI calls and sent a letter to the commissioners. Complaining he was an alumnus of the home team.
Last weekend, the last game of the regular season before playoffs, the visitors (a different team) requested that this same official be moved off of the game which happened.
The visiting team needed to win.... to put them, the home team and another team in a three-way tie for the league championship, which did happen. The three teams records are now 8-2, 9-1 and 8-2. All three teams are in different divisions, one being seeded forth, another seeded third and last being seeded one. So, not only the league championship was on the line but also how each would be seeded. So, there was a lot a stake.
Maybe the moral of the story is, not to have an announcer (classmate) that talks before thinking. As they said in World War ll, loose-lips-sink-ships.
[Edited by Green on Nov 14th, 2005 at 04:47 PM]
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