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[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by WhistlesAndStripes

The disaster being the possible overtime period that may occur.

Do officials all over the world pretend that they hate overtimes?

Or is it just here in my little corner of Connecticut?

Really? Don't we all love the excitement and pressure of an overtime game?

It's was very common, almost mandatory, for varsity officials here in my little corner of Connecticut (in the past when varsity officials use to rate junior varsity officials) to "yank the chain" of junior varsity officials after a one point non-overtime junior varsity game by saying, "Good thing you guys didn't go to overtime, it would have cost both of you a rating point".

As if starting the varsity game on time is more important that the outcome of the preceding junior varsity game.

So we all get home ten minutes late and miss the beginning of Murder, She Wrote. I think that Angela Lansbury can solve the murder without us.

As if officials are supposed to control the outcome of a game.

It's funny. Most, if not all, of us probably don't really mean it. But it's still not a good look for officials.