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Originally posted by Larry Gonski on 01-22-2000 04:26 PM
Tom, I agree. We had a famous where on video a black player went out of his way to punch a white ref. This happened years ago and the reason why the player hit the ref. is because he thought the ref. used the 'n' word. The aftermath concluded that there were no evidence of any verbal abuse. Tom, how would you react if a player like Brown would knock you down?
Assuming that I could still get up, I'd throw the flag for unsportsmanship and eject the player from the game. I really believe that 99.9% of the AD's and Principles ( and coaches) would back me up and further penalize the player. If the incident went further than a knockdown, I'd have to depend on my 6'5" 275# umpire to come to my aid.