Wreck league report

[fullor30]

25 minutes? I do 3-4 men's leagues and they are all 20 minute running halves, stop clock last minute in first, two minutes in second. Guys start getting chippy and we start switching on fouls, they figureed it out fast.

Curious, what's your game fee? we're 30-35 here.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by fullor30

Curious, what's your game fee? we're 30-35 here.

That's the other problem with working this league. It only pays $19 per game. My local kids rec league pays a lot more than that. I've got a "classic" kids league starting in a few weeks that pays pretty good and you get paid at the game. Cool.

[WhistlesAndStripes]

Sounds like an easy night.

Here's what I had Tuesday night. Boys and Girls Club High School Leage. $27 per game. 10 minute running quarters. Subs at 5:00 Minute mark, clock stops during FTs and all whistles last minute of each half.

Game 1 -- 3 Ts, all on the same team, 2 in the first half, 1 in the second half. 1 for a mouth kid (by my partner), 1 for a kid coming up the floorbehind everyone else slapping his own wrist as if to say he was fouled, and the third one for a mouthy kid on the bench. The team with all the Ts should have won the game, I thought, but ended up getting their clocks cleaned since they weren't interested in playing defense. With about a minute left and a 15 point spread, the coach of the team getting whipped calls a TO and tells me that while this is just a silly little league, we were doing a disservice to the game by calling the Ts that we did, and then calling nothing (just before the timeout he called) on a kid who was going down on a fastbreak, lost the ball, and punched the wall/pads cause he was frustrated with himself.) I asked the coach if he wanted to know the difference in the calls/no call. Of course he wasn't interested.

Game 2 -- Whacked a mouthy kid about 2 minutes in that didn't like my OOB call. Rest of the game was rather uneventful.

Game 3 -- 20 seconds in, a kid throws up an airball, and lets out a rather loud "OH $h!t!!" Partner whacks him. About 2 minutes later. He's got the ball in the key, and can't decide what to do with it and I end up with a 3 second violation on him. He zings the ball towards my head. I nod my head to the side to avoid being hit, and whack him with T #2, and he's done for the night.

[26 Year Gap]

New television game show - "Are You Smarter Than Billy Packer?"


Sounds like a carnival game where "Everyone's a winnah!"

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap

New television game show - "Are You Smarter Than Billy Packer?"

Sounds like a carnival game where "Everyone's a winnah!"

Yeah - and there's only three questions:

1) Who's buried in Grant's tomb?
2) What color was George Washington's white horse?
3) Multiple choice: Who invented basketball?
a. Dr. James Naismith
b. Paris Hilton
c. The French

To be smarter than Billy Packer, you only have to get one right.

BTW - is it true that Packer's favorite song is the Beatles' "Over The Back In The USSR"?