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"Food, Glorious Food"
Along with my high school schedule, I also officiate in a Catholic school league, seventh and eighth graders are "varsity", fifth and sixth graders are "junior varsity". Pay is great, as is the food. Almost every site offers complimentary refreshments to the officials, including hamburgs, hot dogs, pizza, fried dough, hot pretzels, sports drinks, bottled water, soda, etc. I was dissappointed last week because they ran out of hot pretzels before our games ended. I was really looking forward to that pretzel. They offered to make me one, or to give me one to bake at home, but I declined and took one of the leftover hot dogs.
Also, at the varsity high school level, we have a private school, where the athletic director has a chilled cooler loaded with soda and beer for the officials after the game. Nothing beats an ice cold beer immediately after a varsity game.
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