Another ugly incident

[Bad Zebra]

http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbc...n6tKq5R/0W0%3D

[Scrapper1]

Lots of neat things in this article.

1) Christian school.
2) "volunteer referees for interscholastic sporting events".
3) felony charges for the spectators.
4) they picked on a 250-pound corrections officer (not smart).
5) "chest-butting, finger-poking and nose-flicking"
6) 60 ejections per week in Florida HS games!!

Wow.

[Bad Zebra]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

Lots of neat things in this article.
2) "volunteer referees for interscholastic sporting events".
Wow.

I can tell you definitively that this part of the article is inaccurate. He is in fact a paid official sanctioned locally and by the state of FL.

[NewNCref]

and this is why I don't wear the noose

[tomegun]

Originally Posted by NewNCref

and this is why I don't wear the noose

Are you serious?

[NewNCref]

Originally Posted by tomegun

Are you serious?

no. the main reason i don't wear it is because I don't like how it feels.

consider the aforementioned comment as a bad attempt at humor

on that note though, has anyone ever heard of anyone getting choked with a full lanyard or noose? just something i've sort of wondered about. i read somewhere that that was part of the motivation for the smitty.

[rockyroad]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

Lots of neat things in this article.

1) Christian school.
.

The home team was a Christian school - the fans involved were from the visiting team.

[deecee]

must have been from the local Mosque -- still having harboring resentment for the crusades....

but I agree with Scrapper's #1 finding -- a majority of my unbelievable situations regarding sportsmanship, or lack thereof, have come in religious institutions...weird but NOT really

[mplagrow]

Why are the threads on this forum turning into a place where we can make blanket statements about religious schools? I don't think that's what this forum was set up to do.

[deecee]

i never made a blanket statement -- i said from my past experience this is what I have seen -- not my fault that its been that way so when I hear something happen in a religious institution it doesnt surprise me

I am just making conclusions from past experiences - I am just stating fact as far as I am concerned -- then again I dont preach PC or dont claim to be so what the hell do I care...

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by mplagrow

Why are the threads on this forum turning into a place where we can make blanket statements about religious schools?

The reason I commented on the fact that the incident was at a Christian school was NOT to cast aspersions on Christians or Christian schools. I merely thought it was funny that we'd been having that conversation very recently and then this incident happens at a Christian school. Just a funny coincidence.

[Jurassic Referee]

Sad, but hardly new. Or surprising.