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Old Thu Sep 21, 2006, 12:49pm
Zebra in NV Zebra in NV is offline
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Originally Posted by The Roamin' Umpire
Varsity game Friday night, NFHS rules.
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is approaching me from his huddle at the center of the field, yelling that the visitor's QB had thrown the ball OOB on the bootleg play, and I've got to make that call.
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Don't know if my typical response would have worked in this situation, but, consider this response:

"Coach, what I saw was a fumble, if it happened they way you say it did, I booted the call."

For me, this disarms 'em and shut's 'em up 99% of the time. They usually respond... "Oh....hmmm... OK" and return to wherever they were.
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