"You're never going to get THAT call!"

[mplagrow]

Here's a funny (or not so funny) one for you on how some people think. I was keeping clock in a tournament of local Lutheran grade schools. It was the championship game, and the first place team had won for the last few years. The coach was known for being unpleasantly vocal. Whenever he wanted a call and started his whining, the woman keeping their book next to me (turns out it was his wife) would say, "You're never going to get that call." After she said that about three times in the game, I finally had to ask her why she was saying that. She just shook her head and said, "Well, when you've been on top as long as WE have, everybody wants to see you lose."

She actually believed that the refs were part of a large conspiracy of people who wanted to make them lose. She actually believed the refs KNEW the history and even CARED! I was astounded by the ignorance and arrogance.