Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (James Brown, 1965) ...

[BillyMac]

Who wants to have more fun?

Cheerleaders.

At all the home games, both genders? Always at boys games (home and on the road)?

[ODog]

For us, most of our top officials are assigned zero (or very few) girls games, and that's just the way it works. No opt-in/opt-out or choosing required.

Boys and girls generally play on different nights, but that doesn't change the fact that some of our top dogs will just get a night off on "girls nights." They don't have to request no girls. Our assignor just does it that way.

Other top officials may get a smattering of girls, says 6-8 games out of 35. I can't think of any "good" officials in our area who do even 40 percent girls games.

So in our area, girls definitely get lower-quality officials -- and fewer three-person crews -- and that's just life.