Partner wearing "Bling"

[DownTownTonyBrown]

Originally posted by jdccpa
...a junior high school game last week with a local college kid as my partner. (The son of one of the local teachers.)

...shows up 5 minutes before game time ...

He had on white sneakers, grey sweat pants, a zebra shirt with a turtle neck shirt, an outsized wristwatch, a sea shell necklace, three "cancer bracelets" and a circular earring in his ear...

I told him that he had to take it all off before he could ref with me. His response was: "Your kidding me right!"
He decided that he would only take off the wrist watch and said again: "Your kidding me right!".

No Jeff,
and if you showed up looking like that I wouldn't work with you either.

That may be alright for YMCA games where the kids aren't even in uniforms - in which case I might be in shorts also. But it is inappropriate for an organized contest.

Certification is surely different for different locations. I'm glad you can pass the Part I test and that you don't have a criminal background. Show up at one of my games in sweats and bling 5 minutes for game time and prove it to me.

I think you are sorely mistaken about liability and I hope that you never find out that you really are. I'm not a lawyer but for me it is extremely simple to follow the line of responsibility and say that one of the officials is trained and certified, and that particular official allowed someone else who is not trained, and who is not certified to officiate. Therefore, the trained official is ultimately responsible. I think even the simplest of lawyers would also say the assigner has some responsibility for making the assignment.

For you to say that you could pick anyone out of the stands and say "Yeah, come on down and officiate with me. Here's a whistle. I hope your home owner's insurance is good because I'm not covering your butt and your bad calls. You're on your own. When the situations get thick, you're still on your own." And those statements, or that situation, and you would be beyond responsibility for the overall contest is ridiculous. Nothing you can say, will absolve you of your responsibility.

Ooh and Jeff, I always get a really jolly laugh out of your confrontational posts and that you sign off with "Peace." Yeah same to you. Good luck. You're on your own.