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Originally posted by w_sohl
Two different games, one after the other. First game the losing team ws getting killed. Two parents came up to me after the game and asked me if I knew that twop teams were playing in that game. I responded, "Yes, one was wearing black and the other was wearing teal." They looked at me puzzeled and I walked away. Second game was a 6th grade girls game and it was a pretty tight game, the two teams had played before and it resulted in a one point victory for, we'll say Team A. About 7:00 mins. of running clock were left when I had to stop the clock and have the man in the front row escorted out of the gym. It started innocent as it usually does, a fan of Team A didn't like my calls (of course) and was complaining. When he began yelling, "You SUCK!" at the top of his lungs I stopped the clock and had him escorted out of the gym. The entire way out he kept yelling, "You suck you redneck! You're a redneck and you suck!" Not that this matters but this gentlemen, I use that loosly, was a black man and it appered to me he was trying to get me to stoop to his level if you know what I mean. Luckily I do not have a very quick wit so I couldn't come up with anythig to reply which is probably for the best. Come to find out from another official he is a HS coach and his team was kicked out of their league because of his attitude. Just think, people like this are shaping our kids. Anyway, game continues without incident and Team B wins by two, a girl hit a three in a two point game with under 30 seconds to go and then only hit 1 of 4 FT's.
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Been there, done that. Worked girls AAU this weekend and I had the 8:00 championship game on Sunday. As my partner and I were watching the 2nd half of the game before ours, we were commenting on the utterly riduculous statements made by the parents/fans. One guy in particular kept screaming at the top of his lungs at the officials -- "That's 10 seconds in the back court, you idiot!" BTW, they were using the 30 second shot clock. Now I normally won't talk to anyone in the stands, but after 7 or 8 minutes of this, I casually mentioned to him that there is no 10 second back court count when the clock shot is being used. I had my jacket on which showed my association and he looked at my jacket and told me that I obviously did not understand "AAU rules". I wanted to ask him if one of the "AAU rules" was for a parent to be an idiot, but I didn't. I just laughed and shook my head.