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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
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Originally posted by BayStateRef
And it seems that race did play a large role.
Bailey could not be reached for comment
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How do you know that after only hearing one side? 
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For me, I have no reason to doubt the veracity of Montgomery's claims that Bailey called him "boy" 7 times. For a state tournament official to lose his cool at halftime bad enough that it spills outside the locker room, something "over-the-line" must have been said. And calling a Black man, or for that matter any grown man, "boy" would qualify as over-the-line. And since Bailey had no business in the locker room in the first place he starts out on the negative side my ledger. Me personally, I wouldn't have let it spill outside the locker room, because somewhere between the 3rd and 4th utterance of "Boy", Bailey would have been saying "Boy, quit choking me!!!".
Now, Montgomery's claims that he was pulled from the game for racial reasons is a whole nother story. That's a subjective view on his part, which so far has not been backed up publicly with facts or evidence.
[Edited by BadNewsRef on Mar 14th, 2006 at 03:17 PM]