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Originally Posted by BillyMac
This week I worked with a female partner. In our pregame, as in all my pregames, I told her that if I didn't know which team caused a ball to out of bounds, on my line, that I would blow my whistle, signal to stop the clock, and call out, "Help Jane", and by doing so, I would pass the call onto her, and she could call, "Red", "White", or "Held Ball".
She told me that it was alright for me to use that procedure, but she would never do that because it would show the coaches that she was "weak". She said that she could never call out "Help", instead, she would blow her whistle, signal to stop the clock, and pause, looking at me for help.
I'm not sure that I agree, or disagree, with her next statement, because I'm a male official, but she said that a "female official had to prove that she is worthy every game, while a male official has to prove that he is unworthy in every game."
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