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Another Brain Fart
Boys B-game before Boys Varsity, last week. Home coach was a treat to work for, visiting coach was an ***. Inside a minute left, home down by 7 trying to score on drive then a put back. I'm trail on bench side. Home coach wants TO if they score. "Gotta ask after you score, coach". They don't score. Next possesion, they come down and nail a 3 to go down by 4. I'm T, opposite benches and blow my whistle and grant home coach a TO. Only problem is, home coach is sitting on the bench with his arm around a player explaining something and not even watching the freaking game. I never looked, heard a TO request or anything, no idea at all why I blew my whistle. Home coach looks up at me, smiles and nods. The visiting coach is screaming "He didn't even ask for a TO!" I go to table and report the TO for the home team, go to visiting coach and tell him I had an inadvertent whistle, my mistake but now the home team gets the TO. "Sorry coach, I screwed up." Visiting team ends up winning so no harm done.
You know how sometimes the coaches want to help us officiate, I guess I just wanted to do the same and help the home coach coach. Varsity game went fine.
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