State Champioship!

Jurassic Referee

One of our own is completing an amazing feat today.

Our own BktBallRef- Tony Haire- has been picked to officiate a North Carolina state high school football championship game today. That follows closely on last year's success when Tony was chosen to officiate a NC state high school boys basketball championship game.

Being chosen to do a state final in two different sports is a great achievement in any official's career.

Big ups, TH.

Btw, for anyone who may watch this game, TH will be the umpire. That's the guy that stands behind the defensive line with Snickers in his hand instead of a whistle.

Nevadaref

Outstanding! Congrats to TH.

Dan_ref

Basketball then footbal, same year?

Just another example of the good-ol'-boy network at work.

Congratulations Tony! Great job!

😀

zebraman

Way to go Tony. 😎

Back In The Saddle

Congrats, Tony!

crazy voyager

Congratlations Tony!

26 Year Gap

I coulda seen him in action in the 2nd round when I visited my folks last month. He was doing a game about 5 miles from their house. But it was dang cold [you could ask him] and I was there for my folks' 50th so to slip out for a HS FB game [especially when my niece's team also had a home game that night which she went to] would've been asking for a T.

tjones1

Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
Big ups, TH.

Mega dittos.

Congrats Tony!!

mick

Attaboy, Tony !!!

BktBallRef

Originally posted by Dan_ref
Basketball then footbal, same year?

Actually, basketball was 2003. But thanks to JR for remembering.

It was a blast! 26YG, even though we kicked off at 4:30 and it was about 40 degrees, it felt like it was 70 and sunny. 9-3 at the half, ended up 28-16 final, with the losing team's drive coming up short in the final minute.

Still deciding if I'll take up baseball and go for the threepeat! 😛

JR, not sure the basketball guys understand the Snickers reference. 😉

BTW, I don't think I've ever been this tired.

JugglingReferee

Originally posted by BktBallRef
JR, not sure the basketball guys understand the Snickers reference. 😉

Usually when people break into football officiating, they work the sidelines. From there, you could be promoted to a deep guy, then to Referee, or directly to Referee. Umpires are special people - not everyone wants to Umpire and they usually have good job security 🙂. Working the Umpire spot, as JR mentioned, is usually reserved for those with more mass. (In Tony's case, it is his height.) IOW, sometimes you'll have a player bounce off you. The joke is that they got this way from eating a lot of Snickers bars.

BTW, congrats TH!

BktBallRef

Thanks Jug.

Been working the middle for two seasons now and I'm proud to say that through 30 games, I've yet to go down. But I've helped several DB's back to their feet! 😛

Jurassic Referee

Originally posted by BktBallRef
Thanks Jug.

Been working the middle for two seasons now and I'm proud to say that through 30 games, I've yet to go down.

You will go down.

Oh yes, you will.

Guaranteed.

And you'll wonder whatinthehell hit you when you do go down. 🙂

Again, congratulations, Tony. A rare double, fer sure.

BktBallRef

Woody, he'd better be big, fast and most importantly, I'd better not see him coming! 😀

Jurassic Referee

Originally posted by BktBallRef
Woody, he'd better be big, fast and most importantly, I'd better not see him coming! 😀

If #62 hits your azz, your azz is grazz.

Real men don't wear mittens. Did you have a string going between them, through both sleeves and around your neck, so that you wouldn't lose them?

Just kidding. 😀

[Edited by Jurassic Referee on Dec 11th, 2005 at 01:46 PM]

JRutledge

Tony,

Why are your other officials facing the benches? I am asking because that is not something we would be doing in our mechanics. I am sure there is an explanation for this, this is why I asked.

Congrats once again your State Final assignment.

Peace

mick

Originally posted by BktBallRef
Woody, he'd better be big, fast and most importantly, I'd better not see him coming! 😀

What the Hey??!!!?
You wearing Carhartts under that uniform ? 🙂
mick

BktBallRef

Originally posted by mick
What the Hey??!!!?
You wearing Carhartts under that uniform ? 🙂
mick

Damn skippy I was. I was wearing everything I owned under that uniform, just to keep warm. In fact, it got a little too warm.

Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
If #62 hits your azz, your azz is grazz.

Real men don't wear mittens. Did you have a string going between them, through both sleeves and around your neck, so that you wouldn't lose them?

Just kidding. 😀

#1, #62 was a NG, so he wasn't a problem.

#2, I don't get cold for anybody.

Originally posted by JRutledge
Why are your other officials facing the benches? I am asking because that is not something we would be doing in our mechanics. I am sure there is an explanation for this, this is why I asked.

They are watching the bench areas. That's the mechanic that we us throughout the state (although I think the BJ is looking for a bathroom). 🙂

[Edited by BktBallRef on Dec 11th, 2005 at 07:06 PM]

JRutledge

Originally posted by BktBallRef

They are watching the bench areas. That's the mechanic that we us throughout the state (although I think the BJ is lokking for a bathroom). 🙂

Why do they need to watch the bench area? Do they need to prevent fights or unsportsmanlike behavior? That just sound weird from what we do. You learn something new everyday.

I did think the BJ was looking for the bathroom too. 😀

Peace

BktBallRef

It's just to prevent any other players from coming onto the field during the toss. Some coaches want to send all their seniors out, things like that. Plus, they're not missing anything in the middle of the field.