Strangest comment?

[Love2ref4Ever]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

I did a JV game once, where the home team didn't have their white jerseys for some reason. They wore dark, navy blue jerseys and the visitors wore a lighter blue. We informed the captains that would call the light blue "blue" and the dark blue "black".

After the captains went back to the benches, the home coach told me his players felt we were being racist by calling them "black", since most of the players on the team were black.

Looking back on it, I think I could have asked him for alternatives, but it was such a dumb complaint, we just blew it off and went with blue and black.

As an official myself I probably would have used the same color "black" but after what the coach said, do you think it would have hurt to take another look at this? The point I am trying to make is, by changing to a color that may have made the players and coaches more comfortable, it also could have set a good tone to start this game.

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by Love2ref4Ever

As an official myself I probably would have used the same color "black" but after what the coach said, do you think it would have hurt to take another look at this?

Absolutely, Love2. In my original post, I said "Looking back on it, I think I could have asked him for alternatives". I think I was a little insulted by the insinuation and dug in my heels, rather than simply saying, "Then what would you suggest, Coach?"

[Love2ref4Ever]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

Absolutely, Love2. In my original post, I said "Looking back on it, I think I could have asked him for alternatives". I think I was a little insulted by the insinuation and dug in my heels, rather than simply saying, "Then what would you suggest, Coach?"

Speaking for myself, my tongue has always been quicker then my mind

[Corndog89]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

I did a JV game once, where the home team didn't have their white jerseys for some reason. They wore dark, navy blue jerseys and the visitors wore a lighter blue. We informed the captains that would call the light blue "blue" and the dark blue "black".

After the captains went back to the benches, the home coach told me his players felt we were being racist by calling them "black", since most of the players on the team were black.

Looking back on it, I think I could have asked him for alternatives, but it was such a dumb complaint, we just blew it off and went with blue and black.

A dribbling player stepped on the end line in a rec game I was calling a few years ago so I whistled him out of bounds. From the bench one of his teammates called me a racist, I assume because I'm white and the violating player was black. However, aside from the clock operator, I was literally the only white guy in the gym, so I guess every call I made must have clearly validated and reinforced my racist status. My African-American partner got a pretty good laugh from my damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't situation. Sometimes I think people look for reasons to be over-sensitive.

[Odd Duck]

Originally Posted by NURef

After the game I said "look, you need 5 players to start a game and 5 players to end a game...don't spend too much time worrying about something like this...".

Really...are you certain about the part in bold?

[NURef]

I know, technically you don't need 5 players (on one team) to finish the game...but you get my point.