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The one & only time I had a fan tossed I remembered to have
game security do it. No muss, no fuss, during a dead ball
I pointed the guy out & it was taken care of. He was
hustled out so quickly he left without his coat, and it
was a cold night. Later in the game the guys kid came up
to me & apologized. Very sad. As Drake says have security
do their job but it's not easy to remember in the heat of
the moment.
A few weeks ago during a Saturday afternoon HS game there
was 1 guy sitting alone in the bleachers at mid court who
just kept making comments about the officating. Probably A Dad. Not loud, not obnoxious but there couldn't have been more than 80 people in a large gym so it was easy to hear
him. As I was preparing to inbound the ball to start the
second half I said to no one in particular "I hear ya, and
I'm ignoring ya." The player inbounding the ball looked at me and said "Wha?" The guy sitting behind me laughed.
One more. This happened at a kids CYO game. One kids mom
had this really loud, high pitched shrill voice. "Three
seconds! Three seconds" "And one!" "Call it both ways!"
You know the type. So A1 is trapped by the mid court
line, and my friend starts yelling "Help him! Go and
help him! He needs help!" A1 loses the ball, as I go
past the bench I say to coach B "Now we know which one is
*her* kid."
[Edited by Dan_ref on Jan 4th, 2002 at 01:31 PM]
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