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AFTER THE GAME ENDED.
Got a call today asking if my partner and I could double up and split up a frosh/JV double before our varsity game. I could make it earlier so I got the freshman. First mistake.
The home coach spent more time reffing than coaching, and I don't know if I'm just getting soft in my old age or just wanted to get it over with, but I let A LOT slide, that I normally would have addressed. Second mistake.
Well the game is much closer than it should be, and my partner calls a disconcertion violation on the home team and then whacks the coach with 1:05 left. Third mistake.
The visitors miss the sub FT and both T FT and then turnover the ball, so the T had zero actual impact. Home does not capitalize and a ragged minute later the horn goes off with a 4 point loss for the home team.
We are doing the usual get out of dodge when my partner stops and picks up the game ball. Mistake number four, because that slight delay kept us in the gym and not through the door to the dressing room. Home coach is running after us, giving us an ear full. I calmly ask him to stop and walk away, he doesn't and he gets louder instead.
I calmly hit the whistle, give the T and jog to the table, coach following. I get to the table and report the ejection and he loses it completely. The JV coach has to grab him and pull him away.
I now have to stew for a hour and a half of the JV game before the varsity game mad at myself for:
a) Being nice and taking the game.
b) Not handling this idiot better earlier in the game.
c) For not kicking my partner in the rear for giving a late T, after we both could/should have gotten him earlier.
d) Saying I'll be the R since it was my varsity partners turn to be the R in our game, so my frosh partner could be the R in the JV game. Thus I am the one who gets to fill out the ejection paper work.
Tomorrow is a new day, and lucky me I have a JV/varsity doubleheader that I guarantee won't go down the tubes.
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