Whistle upon taking the court pregame

[fullor30]

Originally Posted by Indianaref

Almost sounds like a joke. Which got me to thinking, has anyone ever been the recipient or masterminded a joke on some other official. Such as baby powder in the whistle, etc....

There is a ref in our area who I got my first games from years back, and I had him as my partner my fourth or fifth date and was really intimidated.

We had a wild game in a wild gym at a wild school and during a timeout he came over to me and stood directly in front of me poking my chest reminding me of a mechanic or something. We come out of the time out, he inbounds the ball as I go to grab my whistle.........................gawn. He is soiling himself laughing so hard. pretty funny and he's good at it too.

[rockyroad]

Originally Posted by Indianaref

Almost sounds like a joke. Which got me to thinking, has anyone ever been the recipient or masterminded a joke on some other official. Such as baby powder in the whistle, etc....

Best one I ever pulled off was telling the two HS girls at the table that my partner (2-person) was severely dyslexic and warning them that he would say a number like "53" but show the number "35" with his hands, so they needed to really concentrate on what he was saying and really encourage him when he got it all correct...then stood back and watched them lean way over the table to stare at him, and give him big smiles, thumbs-up, and even clap for him a few times as he reported fouls...at halftime when he brought it up, I played all innocent and told him I hadn't noticed...after the game, when he was saying "What the hell was that all about?", I finally broke down and told him...he got a pretty good laugh out of it. Funny though, I've never been the R with him since then. Hmmmm...

[icallfouls]

Originally Posted by Indianaref

Almost sounds like a joke. Which got me to thinking, has anyone ever been the recipient or masterminded a joke on some other official. Such as baby powder in the whistle, etc....

I realize that I am a bit late to this one, but I have a joke that I played on a fellow official that you might like.

I was working a state tournament and had met some really good guys there and we became fast friends. We were up late every night and watched each and every game there. I was working the girls state championship game before the boys game. Before the game started, I told some of our fellow officials of my idea.

We needed to find the local constable and get him in on the plan.

Anyway, what I did was tell the police officer after the 1st quarter of my game to go up to this official and tell him that he was going to have to leave the gym until after the girls game was over because the officials on the floor were distracted by his presence at the game. At the end of the quarter while we were waiting for play to resume, my partner and I are doing the best that we can to keep our laughter inside as we watch the interaction between the police and our new buddy. The look on his face was priceless as he was asked to leave. The police officer took it a step further and had started to escort him out of his seat and down the stairs. He got halfway down when he looked at me and I winked. He laughed pretty hard when he realized what was up.

[kbilla]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Another great method to prevent this is for the coaches to teach their kids not to dunk during warmups.

An even better method is to T the coach once and put the seatbelt on him....last time anyone on his team dunks in pregame...

[kbilla]

Originally Posted by kbilla

An even better method is to T the coach once and put the seatbelt on him....last time anyone on his team dunks in pregame...

Sorry, T the KID once..

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Splute

I had an official tell me that when you and your partner take the floor, you are supposed to blow your whistle. I was told it is in the officials manual, but have not been able to locate it. Is this standard practice?

No, it's not standard, nor is it in the manual.

It is done in some areas to tell the teams to stop dunking.

You're new (iirc) to officiating. Go watch some games and see if the other varsity officials do this. Follow their lead.

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

No, it's not standard, nor is it in the manual.

It is done in some areas to tell the teams to stop dunking.

You're new (iirc) to officiating. Go watch some games and see if the other varsity officials do this. Follow their lead.

Bob:

Why would the officials in those areas want to advertise the fact they are coming onto the court so that the players can stop dunking? Nothing is more fun than to walk onto the court just as a player dunks that ball and to see his face when he sees you and he knows that you have caught him dunking and that he is going to get whacked. Sounding one's whistle takes on of the few and small pleasures out of officiating the game.

MTD, Sr.

[Adam]

Mark was joking.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by msavakinas

oh... my bad?

Understandable, it was very dry humor.

Very dry.

More dry than humorous.

[Y2Koach]

As a coach, I get on the PA microphone and clear my throat right before the jumpball to notify the officials that the game is about to start and that I will be yelling at them for all the fabricated fouls and travels they call on my team and all obvious fouls and travels they do not call against the other team. It's not in the book, I just do it as a courtesy to the officials to notify them that I am ready to go.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

Bob:

Why would the officials in those areas want to advertise the fact they are coming onto the court so that the players can stop dunking? Nothing is for fun than to walk onto the court just as a player dunks that ball and to see his face when he sees you and he knows that you have caught him dunking and that he is going to get whacked. Sounding one's whistle takes on of the few and small pleasures out of officiating the game.

MTD, Sr.

Mark, have you been taking Padgett's meds?

[dblref]

Originally Posted by Splute

I had an official tell me that when you and your partner take the floor, you are supposed to blow your whistle. I was told it is in the officials manual, but have not been able to locate it. Is this standard practice?

When I worked one of my first HS games (freshman b/g d/h), my partner was a grizzled old veteran that told me he always blew his whistle right before entering the gym for warmups, and that I should learn to do the same. He did this to warn the teams that the officials were coming, and then they wouldn't dunk during warmups and you would never start the game with T's.

[Snake~eyes]

Everytime we enter where I work, they play some crazy music and fireworks go off, so we have no need to blow the whistle.

[rainmaker]

Originally Posted by Snake~eyes

Everytime we enter where I work, they play some crazy music and fireworks go off, so we have no need to blow the whistle.

Some jazzed up version of Three Blind Mice?

[Mark Dexter]

Originally Posted by rainmaker

Some jazzed up version of Three Blind Mice?

My favorite has been RFK stadium this past season. They would play the Law & Order theme song when the umpiring crew came out onto the field.