Officiating other sports

[refnrev]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

Everyone wore summer white clothes and had cucumber sandwiches and lemonaide (I am not kidding). They raised about $2000 for the charity by charging admission and selling food and drink. It was really a blast and I wish they would have it every summer.

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People paid money for a cucumber sandwich? GAG!

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

There's a town right next to mine that is a Senior community (I'll be moving there shortly ). One of the retirement homes challenged their local Lions Club to a match, with the money raised going to the Lions Club camp for blind kids. I was contacted to "officiate" and also to be a "roving announcer" with a portable megaphone. Some local dignitaries were invited to participate including our State Representative at the time, Max Williams (now head of the prison system in Oregon). Max is a personal friend of mine so I made sure I gave him a really bad time. In fact, he almost lost to a lady with a walker!

Everyone wore summer white clothes and had cucumber sandwiches and lemonaide (I am not kidding). They raised about $2000 for the charity by charging admission and selling food and drink. It was really a blast and I wish they would have it every summer.

The only part of your story that I found amazing, Mark, was that you needed a portable megaphone. I can just see ya sneaking up behind the l'il ol' lady with the walker(Juulie?) and bellowing "That's a foul, that's a foul..". Yup, see if her pacemaker is working the way it should.

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by TimTaylor

I also work HS volleyball in the fall. On top of the regular HS basketball season I also do spring and summer league HS games, but only a couple a week - typically runs from first of April to end of June. Might be a hair later for me this year though...just found out Wed. I need to have surgery on my shoulder - sched. for late March & it might set me back a week or two......my wife says its from calling too many fouls..

Maybe you need to learn to use the other arm for calling fouls for awhile.

[JugglingReferee]

I also do football at the NCAA level. I find football more enjoyable because it is outside. About 3 years ago, I was approached after a football game to do local baseball; I declined to have a life outside of officiating. I also tried lacrosse for one season; I liked it, but there is little to no local training.

[basketballen]

I've been officiating Football, Basketball and Lacrosse for four years. I took football off this past fall and don't know if I'll go back. I forgot how nice it was to have evenings off. Plus, I've gotten a tad bored with it.

Our Lacrosse season is just about to gear up. Training for rookies starts this week and veterens will be meeting next Sunday. Lax is a blast to officiate. It's an attacking game that seems to combine basketball and hockey. In fact we've found that basketball officials make the best transition to lacrosse.