[LSams]

Worked a district game involving The Florida School for the Deaf and Blind a few years back. Great kids, great coach. had one snafu where FSDB was making substitutions and someone hadn't left the floor. They've got six players on the floor (we are holding up play waiting for the sixth to get off) and they all have their back to the coach so he cannot get their attention. Finally we got them turned around to see their coach, to figure out who needed to sit down.

The classic moment of the game was when some parents from the opposing team (District game neutral site -- about 15 people in the stands, so you could hear everything) began to gripe about the officials. Keep in mind the deaf school is getting blown out at this point. The parents keep at it, how we're cheating their kids (who are winning by mercy rule), finally during a time-out one of my partners walks over to the parents and says, "what it's not enough that they're deaf, you think they should be blind too." They stopped after that.