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Just got back from three rec league games I worked with my dad (really cool to ref with my dad). 6th grade boys games

You'd think it's the NCAA Tournament with the intensity of these games. I mean coaches yelling and screaming, parents yelling and screaming, even some jawing between the clock operator and the bleachers.

During the first game, a coach nearly pulled his best Bob Knight impression. He was unhappy about something and he picked up a chair and was about to throw it. I had to chuckle because all of these teams were named after Big Ten schools, and he was Purdue.

During the second game I had a kid who has watched too much LeBron James, and kept traveling on his way to the basket. His coach, his father also, loudly disagreed with me.

The third game went into not one but two extra periods. A kid hit a desperation three to tie the game as time expired in the first overtime.

Whew...what a day.