If I wasn't there, I wouldn't have believed it. I was working rec games last weekend with a guy who is a 15 year vet. I've worked with him many times before, and he always did a very professional job. I have no idea what got into him Sunday afternoon, though.
Our first two games were varsity girls and went rather smooth. Our third game was kind of strange. One team (white) was a true JV boys team, mostly juniors, a few sophomores and a freshman. The other team (blue) was an 8th grade all-star team. How they were paired up, I'll never know. Anyway - after the first 3 minutes of the game, blue was ahead 14-2!
There was a white timeout and my partner told me he was "fed up to here listening to that crap" from the white team. I hadn't heard anything so I was somewhat surprised.
We come out of the timeout and white 1 fouls a blue shooter. My partner makes the call. White 1 says something and WHACK! As my partner goes to report, the same player says something else. WHACK #2! He's toast. The coach gets up to complain and WHACK! That's three so far.
This is at a venue that has a house rule that all non-administrative technicals are two shots, the ball and two points!!!
We line up to shoot the original two shots for the shooting foul and all of a sudden I hear another WHACK. White 2 gets rung up. As my partner reports, white 2 goes toward his bench, peels his jersey off and throws it. WHACK again! Now he's gone. The coach starts to protest and, yep - you guessed it - another WHACK! He's now toast, too.
When we finally got the dust settled, blue received 12 automatic points for the six technical fouls, and made 10 of 14 free throws (including the original foul) for a total of 22 points. Then, they inbound, a kid puts up a three, it's good and he's fouled and makes the FT. All of a sudden, the score is 40-2.
We did manage to finish the game and blue won by about 30.
Boy - it's really fun being the good guy for a change.
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