[Mark Padgett]

I was talking with a buddy who also refs the other day about some of the funniest comments we've ever heard by coaches, when he asked me what was the strangest comment I ever heard from a coach. I had never been asked this specific question before, so I had to think about it (which immediately put me at a disadvantage).

I guess it was this one: after some pushing and shoving for a rebound under the basket after a missed shot, a coach yelled, "You gotta call that. That's a..a..a..whatchamacallit!"

Or maybe it was when I had a coach ask me to make sure I did not grant him a "time" when he was going to yell out loudly for play number "nine". He said it happens to him quite often.

Perhaps the winner is when a female coach requested before the game that my partner and I refrain from using the term "period" in front of her 8th grade girls team because "some of them might giggle." It's twue, it's twue!

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