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Originally Posted by chartrusepengui
I actually had a game this year. Post player B had a cut on back of his arm. Bandaid came off during game and B is on offense. By the time we noticed the blood on arm, it was also on floor and on 4 white jerseys. We stopped play and team A only had 9 total players. We allowed the jerseys to be switched out at the bench.
Post game discussion we were wondering how 4 white jerseys got blood on them so fast. After discussion - we realized that when he set screens he did the arm cross thing and when bumps occurred - the blood transferred.
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Semi-final game of a Varsity tournament this past December. My coaching staff and I were watching the game and noticed a player with blood on his jersey. As one of the officials stood in front of us during a Time out, we told the official that #50 had blood on his jersey under his right arm. After 3 or 4 minutes of game time, the other official stood in front of us during a dead ball. We told him #50 had blood on his jersey under his right arm. The ball was inbounded and another 30-45 seconds of game time elapses, when a parent behind us screams out "HE HAS BLOOD ON HIS JERSEY!!" Officials stop the game and as official #1 inspects the jersey, official #2 tells us to calm down. Then the officials confer and tell us "we don't think it's blood, and he's only gotta remove it if its saturated". When I respond "um, so that's not blood coming from the cut on his elbow?" Official administers the throw-in and says to us "that's enough from you guys, the jersey has to be saturated".
Ironically, those same officials sat a few rows behind us for the next semi-final game and a kid had a smidgen of blood on his jersey a few minutes into the game. The officials had the player removed from the game, and when we looked behind us at the officials from the previous game, they just shook their heads, saying "it's gotta be saturated, it's gotta be saturated".