[Mark Padgett]

At one of my rec games yesterday, there's a guy about 20 years old out on the court helping one of the teams warm up before the game while wearing a referee shirt. He also had on black shorts. I had just walked into the gym but I knew this kid wasn't my partner. My partner came in a few minutes later and asked me if I knew who that guy was. I told him I did not, but I guessed he was probably some player's older brother. Neither one of us knew why he had on a referee shirt, but my partner decided to make sure he wasn't going to sit on the bench that way if he was going to be an AC. I'm not quite sure what difference it would make but my partner was adamant so he told that coach.

The guy sat about 3 rows up when the game started. About midway through Q2, he was really complaining about the calls and my partner told that coach to "control his spectators". The coach did say something to the guy but he kept it up and started to get personal, not with me, but with my partner. I guess he resented my partner directing that coach to make sure he wasn't going to be on the bench. Finally my partner told him to get out of the gym and to "take your Foot Locker shirt with you". I thought it was a pretty funny remark.