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Originally posted by lmeadski
This may seem immaterial to most of us, but, does an overweight ref instantly harm his/her credibility? We talk about appearances (all black shoes, pants with no loops, etc.) and how much that matters. Does the stretching of the stripes put a doubt in player's/coach's/fan's minds that we might not be up to the task? We use the analogy of fat/overweight = lazy/not on top of game in many other ways. Does it apply to us? Much is said of Ed Hoculie (sp?) and what a great NFL ref he is. Does he gain some extra cred because he looks the role (see this months piece in SI about him...)?
[Edited by lmeadski on Jan 16th, 2006 at 01:00 PM]
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Our Commisioner on our board made the statement in the beginning of the year that if you are overweight, you will not get AAA Boys Varsity Games. Needless to say, it sidelined a bunch of officials and open the doors for more!