Yeah, Fletch it comes from baseball.
I've coached baseball for the last 10 years and took my first basketball job this year. I had to work real hard the first few games to say "ref" instead of "blue" or "ump".
The same thing goes the other way. When Michael Jordan was playing baseball I remember sportscenter showing an interview after one of his games and Michael kept calling the umpires, "refs"
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