Forgot pants!

[Jim Henry]

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.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Jim Henry

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.

[26 Year Gap]

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.

[Rita C]

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

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Rita C

One of my partners last season had the zipper go out in his pair during the game.

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

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

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

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

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

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

[BillyMac]

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.

[grunewar]

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!

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

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.

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

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Gee Mark, most of us don't have a zipper on our pair.

[JugglingReferee]

[Corndog89]

Originally Posted by Rita C

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

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.

[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by Corndog89

"Excuse me, but the referee has a hole in his butt".

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.

[Y2Koach]

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.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Y2Koach

and ends it with "captains, is your team properly equiped and ready to start?" One of the opposing players says "ARE YOU??!?"

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