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Originally Posted by asdf
Right from the NFHS Basketball Officials Manual.....
1.2.16 Cardinal Principles: The following items are specific goals and personal attributes that every good official will strive to attain and accepted procedures which should be followed:
m) Do not consume alcoholic beverages at any time on the day of and prior to a contest. |
Goals, not absolutes; besides, this goes against your statement that you wouldn't drink after midnight the night before the game. If you go by this standard, if you have a game on Sunday, you can't drink after midnight Friday. There a lot of officials on this board for whom that would mean no alcohol from Thanksgiving until March.
You may think I'm misinterpreting the statement, and I would agree with you; but it's not an unreasonable reading of the quoted statement.