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Originally Posted by Smitty
This is a really good point and one of the main reasons I took the OP with a grain of salt. From the sound of the OP, there were 3 or 4 ambulances called to the game site. In reality, girls hit the floor 10 times more often than boys and they cry and they look like they are going to die of pain, and within 5 minutes of being helped off the floor, they are back in the game. I suspect the OP was embellishing the extent of the injuries. Seriously - a major concussion?
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Funny you say this. Early in my career I worked a girl's varsity game. The girls basically did something she had no business doing like trying to dribble between two defenders that were doing nothing but standing in front of her. The girl fell and acted like she hurt her knee. You would have thought with the screaming and yelling she had torn a ligament or broken a leg. The girl's parent even started yelling at us like we had committed a capital crime. We delayed the game for a few minutes as the girl was actually helped off the court. The very next stoppage of play, she was at the scorer's table coming in the game. I knew right thing it was time to hang up girl's basketball. Now it took some years to get some clout to do so, but I eventually got it out of my schedule. And in many cases when I am asked to work girls, the assignor apologizes to me or even makes it clear if I get a boy's game, I can give it back. The last couple years I worked a Xmas Tournament on an off night and I am glad it was only one. And the type of complaints that the coach displayed here is the main reason for that position.