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Those same fans must have flown into the Dayton, Ohio area Saturday night.
Girls varsity game-home team is 6-13, visitors are 0-19. Visitors think they have a chance to win a game and home is planning on opening up a big old can of kick butt. Things don't start out too well for the home team. Lots of obvious fouls...we're calling 'em all (neither team can play through ANY contact).
I call a foul on the home team (A1 runs into B1 and knocks her down...easy call, foul on A1). Home coach looks like I just took his last cookie. He calls me over and then yells out (so everyone can hear) "that was a HORRIBLE call!".
Whack! Have a seat coach. I report the foul and the technical and we get everything lined up. I take a look at the scoreboard. It says we've called 17 total fouls...and we still have OVER four minutes to play in the first period!
We called 35 fouls in the first half. Second half not much better. Our total was 62 for the game (5 girls fouled out).
Oh yeah, the fans...they were pretty brutal (to us and the visiting team). Right before the first half ended, I heard "These guys must have graduated from the Ray Charles school of refereeing". Not bad. If I could have found 3 pair of sunglasses and 3 canes, I would have insisted we take the floor for the second half with them on.
Oh well, the home team ended up winning by 15 points. Free Subway sandwiches after the game. All is good in referee land.
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