[rbruno]

Guys
This happened in my GV game last week. We in Massachusetts have been discussing staying after the game for a post game handshake for two years now.
Home gym is in an uproar. The home team has blown a halftime lead because of this official team apparently. I had a least two charges against the home team in the second half and was really the "bad guy". I am standing in the circle during a timeout with 1:30 left in the game waiting for the warning horn.
I was thinking we did a great job tonight in a hostile atmosphere with at lousy table by the way (at least 5 resets of the game and 30 sec shot clock).
Just before the horn I realize I have company in the circle. A 60 something year old women has come out of the stands behind me and beginning to tell me what a great job me and my partner have done. I was stunned. My eyes hit the table in front of me and the AD is standing there smirking. I tell him to get this person on the floor and obviously out of the gym. I then tell him we are not staying for the post game handshake and want to be let into the locker room immediately after the final horn. (It was about a 10 point game at the time with the "good guys," ha ha losing.)
The game horn sounds ,,, we run to the locker room and no one is there to let us in. This is a giant field house and there were lots of hostile fans hanging around and we are outside the door waiting for a least a minute or two.... seemed like an hour. Some else (Not the AD) lets us in and I tell him we want the AD to escort us to the exit when we are through changing, which he does. I spy another official in street clothes near the exit and tell him that he might get a call from our assignor whom I am going to call the sec I get my partner to her car and me in mine.
My assignor backed us 110% , called the AD, MIAA and anyone who should be involved.
Yes, Guys this does happen and will happen again. I never thought so but here you are. Could have been a 6' 5" angry dad not a 60 year old women also.