Thu Mar 20, 2014, 06:03pm
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Do not give a damn!!
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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: On the border
Posts: 30,539
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Originally Posted by BillyMac
I've got my whistle in my pocket, and I look at the team color on the benches (knowing that I must also know what half we're in). I know a lot of you guys don't like that (pocket whistle), but it's a "When in Rome" thing around here, almost mandatory.
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No. People do not like officials using a whistle in their pocket for AP situations or gauge. I put a whistle in my pocket so I have an extra if it were to break or if my lanyard breaks too.
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Originally Posted by BillyMac
At the horn ending the second period, my partner and I meet at the division line, opposite that table, and wait for the benches, and lingering coaches, to clear. Then we head toward that table, switching our pocket whistles, and we say to each other, "White to start the second half", and then the referee repeats this to the table, and has the scorekeeper switch the visible arrow.
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OK, if it works. Just seems like a lot to do just to remember something that should be obvious. To each his own I guess.
Peace
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