Your worst game ever?

[Mark Padgett]

By "worst" game, I don't mean that you kept screwing up or made bad calls (which, we all know, never happens). I mean your worst experience with behavior of players and/or coaches and/or fans.

I'll start. I had a HS rec game (JV level) in which, after about 5 technicals had been called for unsportsmanlike conduct, I had to eject both head coaches after they got chest to chest and were pushing each other (one thought the other was running up the score), then also tossed one assistant coach for throwing his clipboard at one of his players, then tossed four players (one from each team) for fighting (this is when we called the game off) and then had two parents get in my face as I was leaving. They were accusing my partner and me of not "protecting" their kids. I told them that if they always wanted their kids to "be protected", they should keep them in plastic bubbles.

OK, let's hear the horror stories. FEEBLE games don't count because the teams always surrender too easily.