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What do you get when you combined Fraternity boys, intramural basketball, and an 11pm game with close to 50 fans for a Week 1 game?
Besides a lot of pushing, shoving, intentional fouls, etc also had this fun series of events --
B1 catches the inbounds pass and is literally tackled to the ground by A1 -- I whistle intentional foul rather than flagrant, although in retrospect it may have been flagrant -- but I gave it the intentional call because he was intentionally trying to stop the clock and once the whistle blew (almost simultaneous with the tackle), he did not attempt to further bring the guy down, etc.
All A players are obviously moaning and groaning in some colorful language but before I can figure out who the guilty party is, A2 comes up and picks up the ball, places in front of my face stating "You want to touch it" and then rolls it down the court and says "Go get it b**tch", which prompts his second Technical of the night (ironically, earlier for throwing the ball against the wall and screaming "f**k that"). As I go to report that technical, A3 begins to approach me throwing his arms in the air while being restrained by his teammates, then he escapes from them and starts to take off his shirt, asking me if I "wanna go" (implied fight). I WHACK him and call off the game as we have a 3 techs = a forfeit rule. As I go to get out of harms way he continues to run his mouth, eventually shouting that we all "need a new ****ing job cause you all suck" For good measure, I gave him a second technical (when in reality I should've just flagrantly teched him for his first actions), thus ejecting him to ensure he has a low probability of playing the rest of the season.
After the game, several of the A players are actually apologetic, but then the assistant coach (I know, what're coaches doing in intramurals? lol) tries to justify their actions saying "All you called all night was pushes and blocks but you missed all the moving picks and over the back calls... if you're not gonna let them play at least call everything) I just chuckled at him as I made my way to back area.
All in all, its good to be back.
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