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Originally posted by Rich Fronheiser
How emotional is an out of bounds or traveling call?
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Funny you should ask this. I was C. Standing right in front of B's bench. Ball goes out of bounds between me and the endline as 2 players are going hard for it. I blow my whistle and as I turn to point hard to make sure and sell the call that we're going the other way, B's coach is a step or 2 out on the floor and I poke him right in the cheek. I didn't realize it at the time, but he came out after halftime and showed us the wound where I had actually drawn blood. I simply said to him, "Coach, if you had been in your box..."
We had a good laugh over it, but not as good a laugh as I had on Monday night at the dinner table. Said coach also happened to be my daughter's school teacher. At school the following Monday morning, one of the kids asked him how he had got cut on the cheek. He responded, "Julie's dad got mad at me in the game on Saturday and tried to beat me up."