[aceholleran]

I was reffing a semi-formal HS-hoops summer league once (yes, there is an analogy to the dimwitted TD here) here, and one team was just a bunch of whiney-a$$ moaners. No coaches, but there were adults on clock and book.

After a while, during a dead ball period, a I addressed the entire team with a brief "look, knock off the crying and just play" philippic. The guy on the book (who would be paying me) then chastised me for "yelling at the kids." I said nothing to him.

My pard, by the way, was useless.

So, I decided to simply ignore the whiners, turning my back on protesting players. This simply increased the amount of babysh!t. Toward the end of the game, the same simpleton on the book told me that "you're losing control of the game."

After the game in the locker room with no one else around, he continued with this as he gave me my check. I said, "Look, do you want the game officiated properly, or do you you want to let these kids run loose?"

All I got back was a bunch of stammering. I knew I was one of the better refs in the circuit, simply because they were hiring a lot of newbies and lifetime jayvee guys. So I ended with, "And if you want to jump into my blankety-blank game again and act like a pantywaist motherfletcher, I'm gone."

Never heard another peep from the guy.

Ace in CT