Player with Tourette's

[zebraman]

I've never experienced that while officiating. However, when I was in college I used to work at a gym on the weekends. During open gym, there was this one guy who had Tourette's that played rat ball. He was fine while playing, but when he was sitting on the side waiting for a game, he would swear up a blue streak.

The first time it happened, I walked out of my office to tell him to settle down, thinking a fight was about to break out. Before I got there, his friend filled me in. Everyone at the gym got used to it and just learned to ignore the swearing.

Z