Jim Burr's extra whistle

[JLK]

Was working a State tournament game last weekend and had the following happen to me...

About 3 minutes left in the 2nd quarter, I went to report a foul and my whistle/lanyard is now in my hand. Thinking the lanyard just slipped off the loop, I went to put it back on only to find out that the loop is broke. Now, usually I wear a noose style lanyard but I wanted to make sure my partner and I matched so I had not brought one along (I did have any extra whistle/smitty lanyard with me but with a busted loop, this was not going to help either).

Needless to say, I didn't want the lanyard just flapping around when I was running so I took the lanyard off and did strickly the whistle (Just had to remember not to spit the whistle out when making a call). In watching the game tape, you can see me holding the whistle in my hand on dead ball situations in a couple of occasions

At half time, I just switched shirts. Fellow officials sitting in the stands had a good laugh.