[theboys]

Can't remember if I've told this before or not (the advantage of getting old; re-living things can be so much fun):

7th grade county semi-finals, in OUR gym. I'm filming the game so I can prepare stats later. At halftime the guy next to me tells me the score is wrong, that the opponent had one more point than they were supposed to have. I didn't think much of it. We lose in overtime. At the end of the game, the same guy says, watch the film - we got screwed.

I review the film that night, and sure enough, early in the first half, one of the opponents was credited with a 3 when he should only have received 2 points (the officials correctly signaled the score, but OUR scoreboard operator and scorekeeper got it wrong).

The kicker is, when our 7th grade coach talked to the opponent's 7th grade coach the next day, the opponent's coach said he knew the score was wrong all along.

Leads to the ethics question, "How far do you go to be honest?"

BTW, we got our revenge in 8th grade.