This came from a coach: boys JV game, coach was extremely verbal, had something to say on every play, at one point I was near him, I nicely told him to try to calm down, he said, "What, I can't talk to you guys?", I said "Coach, you can talk to us all you want, you can even stop coaching and do nothing but talk to us for the rest of the game, but you have to do it courteously." He said "OK, I'll try to be nice." On the very next play, he didn't like a call, traveling or jump ball or whatever it was, something very minor, and he looked at me and said, "OK, I tried to be nice but it just didn't work." I almost had to stop the game because I couldn't stop laughing. At least he was honest about his inability to control himself. I have seen him several times since and we now "understand each other."
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