clock mismanagement at end of game

[Back In The Saddle]

Originally posted by tjones1
I don't get it. What the hell do these time keepers think they should be doing? I mean I could maybe understand an error occuring mid-way through the 2nd quarter or something when things might be a little slow or whatever. But at the end of a game, things are close, you'd think they would be playing extra attention to the officials. Unless, it's the home team that's inbounding the ball. Then, you've got a big problem!

Your average timekeeper has a LOT of things to keep track of. There's rooting for the home team, watching the cheerleaders, checking out the fabulous babes sitting three rows from the top to the left of the band, there are phone calls to make and take, friends to gesture to across the way, bad calls to gossip with the scorekeeper about, and lots more. With that kind of workload, it's a wonder they can function at all.