I remember my very first T. It was when I was working a 7th grade girls game when I was a junior in high school. I T'd up the visiting coach (from a Catholic parochial school) who flat-out said "You f**king suck, ref" to my face after a call went against her team. I wasn't the only one who heard it, because you should have seen the shocked looks on the players' faces on the bench. After the game, she "complained" to the home team's (a Lutheran parochial school) prinicipal/AD/boys coach that she didn't deserve the T. When the principal asked what she said, I repeated it word for word. Almost gave the guy a heart attack.

A couple days later, my HS principal (public school) got a call from the Catholic priest who was the visiting coach's principal, and wanted a conference with me about what happened. Quite an interesting meeting (my principal, the priest, and our varsity basketball coach who "assigned" me to that game), because when I repeated the coach's words, my principal said "wow, if our coach had said that, I would hope his a** was ejected from the game!" (Should have seen our varsity coach's reaction to that, LOL!) The priest said the coach denied using the F-bomb. I said, if I was "hearing" it, how come the players reacted to it too? Next time I had the same teams, word got into the circles that the coach had coached her last game.

I asked my varsity coach (I didn't play, so therefore he thought of having me go over and work because he knew I was interested in officiating) why the priest wanted to "verify" this load of crap. Coach (he was a high school football official at the time) told me they probably wanted to "rescind" the T so it wouldn't be on the poor gal's record or whatever, but since I backed my story up well, he said doubted the priest would go easy on her. I guess that was very prophetic.