Because I'm a basketball official, I want to share this story with you guys along with posting this on the football forum. My 6th grader had his first football scrimmage on Saturday. A couple of our refs are guys I've worked several basketball games with so when asked it was easy for me to say yes to being on the chain gang.

First pass play, ball hits our player on the hands and defender puts a saddle on his back and goes for a ride. Parent: "come on ref, he's over the back". My buddy looks at me and we both stumbled to keep from falling down from laughing.

Classic!

Ahhhh, that made my morning! Now I'll have a bright day!!!

All one has to do the know the rules of a game is have a child.