[just another ref]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Let me put it this way. You said in an earlier conversation that you did not mind showing up to a game in your uniform. I think that kind of display would be unprofessional and where I live would be considered unprofessional by most.

Just those two things illustrate a completely different approach to officiating and how you want to be perceived as compared to how I want to be perceived. If you and I can have a completely different approach to how we look before a game, why do we have to have the same approach to how we perceive a game that we work?

Peace

Okay, I think I get it now. The fact that you wear "nice clothes" to a game raises you to a level of "professionalism" which, coupled with your perceptions of games that you work gives you the right to speak in a condescending tone to others about games that they play and the officials who work them.