Forgot pants!
 

Hey guys, going into a new season, I wanted to share this “embarrassing” situation with you. I figured what the heck; I can’t be the only guy to forget his pants!

My first game above 9th grade was last season. Doing a JV girl’s game. I ‘m pretty nervous plus I’m going into a hallowed venue for basketball. So I add extra stress to myself. Get to the locker room and I discover I forgot my pants! I am know panicking realizing my house is about 20 minutes away and I would not have enough time to drive home. Therefore I call home and no answer but I leave a desperate message on the machine to call me back. (Can you image what the wife thought when she heard this one?) Well I tell the AD my situation and I tell her I’ll have to wear what I have on. She said OK because there is nothing else I can do. Back in the locker room my partner shows up and he has extra pants but about 4 inches smaller in the waist. So forget about it. So I wear my charcoal gray flecked pants with cuffs and do the game. My partner tried to reassure me that all will be OK and just go out and have a good game. Well I was a bit self-conscious at first but soon got into the game and it turned out it was the easiest and best game I every did (in my humble opinion) in six years! Go figure!

Since then I triple check my bag for all my items and think back how lucky I was I wasn’t wearing my khaki chinos that day.

I've been working HS sports since 1987 and a few weeks ago, I forgot my shoes for a football game. Lucky for me I've been wearing black running shoes, so I don't think anyone outside my crew noticed.

I always make sure I have 2 full uniforms in my bag. I have heard too many pants stories. And now I have heard one more.

A spare pair would be a good idea. One of my partners last season had the zipper go out in his pair during the game.

Rita

Man - that can really hurt!!! Ouch!!!!

Oh - you're talking about pants. Never mind. :p

Gee Mark, most of us don't have a zipper on our pair.
Some sort of surgery to cure aging?

No Pants And More
 

When I first started officiating, I carried both a a hanging garment bag, for my pressed garments, and a regular bag, for everything else. Once, for a junior varsity game, at a distant school, I carelessly left my hanging garment bag at home, and only brought my regular bag. I had shoes, socks, underwear, and whistles for the game, but no pants or shirt (we didn't wear jackets back then). It wasn't a major problem. Back then we wore a gray with blue trim IAABO shirt, and we had the choice of wearing black or blue pants. I happened (just luck, I often wore brown, or gray, dress pants to the game) to be wearing blue dress pants that night, so that wasn't a problem. We always wore gray T-shirts under our gray IAABO shirts, so I simply wore the gray T-shirt by itself. After that game, I went out and bought a bigger bag, and now carry everything in one bag. I even have a typed, laminated, checklist, that a family member can use to pack my bag in case I pick up a last minute fill-in game, when my bag isn't in the car. I will confess that, especially at the beginning of the season, I will take a peak at that checklist when I pack my bag. Maybe that's why I'm taking two medications for my obsessive compulsive disorder.

Forgot socks once......no one noticed. But you talk about blisters! ARGH!! I was hobbled for a week. Now as others have alluded to, I "over pack" too!

Where's the zippers? :confused:

Sorry:

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extra bag
 

A trick I use during the season (basketball) is, I pack a extra bag ,small one, with one of each item I need for my next game,shoes, socks, pants, under shirt & shorts,b&w shirt, whistle,lanyard.& shower gear. The trick is the bag Never,ever leaves the car,it`s a emergency back-up,just for situations like leaving pants or shoes a home.

P.S. When packing your gear for your game, start at you feet,and work your way up,ie.shoes socks, pants etc,etc.

I'm meticulous when packing, so I've never forgotten equipment, but I have been in a hurry and not packed towels and a clean pair of underwear. Minor issues.

When football season started this year, I couldn't find my watch. My wife had done some "cleaning" and swore she didn't see it. So, I worked a couple of early games and all scrimmages without it, but told her to go get me a new one as I missed it greatly on the field. She looked again in all the stuff and found my original one -- after swearing on umpteen bibles she never came across it.

However, I can't get too mad at her. I forgot my down indicator for a jr. high game a couple of years ago (going to the game dressed) and she brought it out to me.

I would advise a checklist. I laminated a card with high school on one side and college on the other (different shoes and jackets). Now, my roller bag is big enough to keep everything in there but I still have a master list.

I don't think anyone here suspected such a thing. ;)

It could have been worse.

You could have discovered this on the way out of the locker room.

Great stories!! Doesn't everyone have one of these? I had the same thing happen at a girl's game last year. The bi**h of it was that I got to the game site well over an hour early and had plenty of time to get a new pair of pants had I known...instead I got into the locker room in the middle of the third quarter of the prelim game, pulled out the pants that I had, slipped one leg in, then the other and as I started pulling them up I thought "uh oh"...these were the pants I wore when I was in college and about 30lbs ago (why these were still in my possession I have no idea)!! So I fight to get them up and zippered and look at my partners "uh guys we have a problem here!"....to their credit they held back the laughter!!! Fortunately one of my partners had an extra pair that fit in the waist & seat, but the inseam was about 4 inches too short...so my choices were to stay squeezed into these plum smugglers and risk a parent calling the cops on the pervert referee, or deal with the "nice floods" comments from the crowd...I pulled the socks up, hiked the pants down as far as I could and went with it.....I also triple check my bag every time now...

Four years ago, I was doing a girls game at a christian school. For some reason, I forgot my court shoes...rembered everything else though. Since I'm in sales, I'm usually in a coat and tie and have 2 pair of dress shoes, brown & black. As luck would have it... I was in my black wing tips and did the game. It was not very comfortable, but I got through it. My partners on that game still razz me about it every time I see them.

Did you experience any spillage?

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Based on my lack of speed, the airflow around my shoes was insufficient to result in spillage...come to think of it, there wasn't much of a vortex line from either shoe either.

Reminds me of the time I went out on the road--I am in a sales job as well--and I had brown wing tips and black wing tips. I looked down in the bright sunlight and noticed I had on one of each.

That happened to me once, but when I went home to change, the pair of shoes at home was just as mixed up.

So you own two pairs with one black and one brown shoe? That's really weird. :p

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Some years ago I wrote myself a check list on an index card that I keep in my bag and use every time I pack. Its worked for me so far.

I forgot socks once too. It was a kick-off tournament for 8th grade Junior High. Had to where my white socks. Ever since then, all my socks stay in my bag and just in case I have an emergency pair tucked away in a secret spot.

I tried that, too. Unfortunately, I lost the index card. :(

Well, the two pairs weren't EXACTLY alike.

In Bob's case they are. That's why it's so weird.

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Tanner, who are you kidding? You with only one pair of spare socks... please. You have more than one pair in that bag!:D
And,
This white socks must be a Robinson thing. I saw a Jr. High game there a few years ago and one ref had on white socks and pants 2" too short. Ugly.... really ugly.... really, really ugly!!!

I was calling a game in Hawaii a few years ago when my partner ripped the seat of his trou from zipper in the front to belt in the back, and as luck would have he was wearing tighty-whiteys underneath...the whole gym could see them. The funny thing, though, was one of the local kids, speaking in the islands' ubiquitous pidgen mixing English & Hawaiian, noted "Hey, ref gotta puka in his akole" which translates to "Excuse me, but the referee has a hole in his butt". It still cracks me up every time I think of it.

I used to pack a spare of these. But I soon realized there's always a coach handy who is happy to rip me a new one, should I find myself in need. :D

Officials gather the team captains and coaches at center court prior to the game. They go through their normal talk regarding sportsmanship, court dimensions, speaking captains, etc... nothing out of the norm.

At the end of the meeting, one official says the usual "make sure the uniforms are tucked in, earrings are out" statement, and ends it with "captains, is your team properly equiped and ready to start?" One of the opposing players says "ARE YOU??!?"

We all look at that official and notice that his shirt is not tucked in and he is wearing a pair of white and red Air Jordans. The official tells the opposing captain to watch his attitude and sends the players back to their respective warmups. The official goes back to the lockerroom and comes back, still wearing the Jordans. Im not sure if they did it on purpose, but every single time the opposing team substituted players, the players did not have their shirts tucked in at the scorers table.

Hey - it's nobody's business but my wife's as to whether or not I'm properly equipped! :eek: