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Originally posted by Mark Padgett
Believe it or not, this story is absolutely true. It happened about 10 years ago in a men's rec league game. I was working the game with a long-time veteran who has since retired.

The game was extremely rough and we had already called a bunch of technicals when it got out of hand and one player threw a really hard elbow in the nose of a defender. Another player on the defensive team then ran up and hit the first player right in the crotch.

He went down like a tree, as you might imagine. After we restored some semblence of order, we dealt with the ejections.

Afterward, my partner said I was too harsh on the guy who threw the punch and only should have called a violation, not a flagrant foul. I asked him why. He replied that it is only a violation for striking the ball with the fist.

ROFL my head off