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Originally posted by Mark Padgett
Just to make you feel better, I had a game last Sat. in which a rather rotund player (I'm being nice here - it's better than calling him a porker) dived on the floor after a loose ball. He grabbed it and his momentum made him roll over (sideways - not head over heels) about 3 times. He then came to a stop. My partner immediately called a travel. At the break, I asked him why he called the travel, since it was obvious the roll was caused by the player's momentum (and exacerbated by his extremely low center of gravity).
He told me he had a "two roll rule". If the player rolls over twice, it's a travel. I told him that in our rec league we had a "two rule rule" - that if an official got two rule interpretations wrong in the same game, he didn't get paid - so he had one to go.
He didn't get it.
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Mark, that reminded me of Tuesday night when we were watching the JV game waiting for our varsity games, the ref was very animated and funny but not very good, seemed like they called 100 fouls and put us behind by 45 minutes with a snowstorm moving in. Two girls from same team come down with rebound, neither moving feet and one pulls it away. He blows the whistle and sells "automatic travelling" because two players from the same team touched it. It was amusing for awhile, he had a football shirt, white socks, a broken belt loop, but after we realized how far behind he was putting us it lost some shine.