Ever Deal With Fans off-court? Do You Always Ignore On-Court?

[lmeadski]

in a somewhat tight game kept on yelling "get the hair out of your eyes, ref!"
The scorers table kept on chuckling every time he'd yell it as I came over to report a foul.

I'm bald.

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by lmeadski

in a somewhat tight game kept on yelling "get the hair out of your eyes, ref!"
The scorers table kept on chuckling every time he'd yell it as I came over to report a foul.

I'm bald.

But do you have bushy eyebrows?

[fullor30]

Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap

But do you have bushy eyebrows?

Nice!!!

[grunewar]

BlindZebra - Man, I gotta come to some of your games! Good stuff!

[Reffing Hoosier]

I don't know if the has been posted here, but this is a good example of how to or not to deal with fans.



Association Leaders,
this was reported the situation below. Please remind your
officials that they should never attempt to deal with unruly fans but
should follow protocol and report the situation to the game management
and allow that group to deal with the unruly fan. You never know what
might happen and you should not put yourself in danger.

Theresia D. Wynns
Assistant Commissioner
Indiana High School Athletic Association



Theresia, One of my young officials had a game at New Castle Saturday
night. A fan in the crowd from Marion was cussing at the girls and
officials. Game management was made aware of the situation. They
called
police and he was arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct. However
during the pat down a loaded hand gun was discovered. I have sent out a
note to our members telling them if they have a problem with a spectator
get game management.

[26 Year Gap]

A guy in our association had his hand in a cast for several weeks and his shoe came untied. A player came up to him and said, "My Dad can help you with that." The official wondered if the kid was wising off when he heard a voice call him from behind saying, "It's okay, I'm his Dad." He had no right hand.

[Ignats75]

Here's a memorably sad situation from last year. Boys sixth grade CYO. I do very little because its usually not worth the hassle. I do just enough so that the assignor usually gives me some of the diocesean championships. (BTW---around here CYO stands for Catholic Yelling Organization)

I am trail and player is stuck in the corner right in front of me trapped because he picked up his dribble. He held his pivot foot but was struggling to find a passing lane when his other foot stepped on the side line. Easy call. White! and we're going the other way. At which point a mother jumped out of the stands from the fourth row and starts running towards me getting no less than six M-F's out of her mouth. I didn't know if I was going to have to defend myself or what, but I stepped back onto the floor away from the sideline about two steps and just said loudly as I pointed towards the far end and the door, "just keep going ma'am".

It really shook me up though that someone would act that way at a sixth grade game. I wrote a letter to the diocese andcc'd the assignor and I guess the school got in hot water. I dropped the rest of my CYO games at that site.

[JugglingReferee]

Darn those Catholics!

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

Darn those Catholics!

Didn't Henry VIII say the same thing?

[rainmaker]

Originally Posted by Dan_ref

Didn't Henry VIII say the same thing?

Wasn't that about the time the word disconsorting came into the language?

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

Darn those Catholics!

There is very little whitespace between the brim on the r and the stick of the n. It kinda looks like d-a-m. Dam those Catholics.

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

There is very little whitespace between the brim on the r and the stick of the n. It kinda looks like d-a-m. Dam those Catholics.

Shouldn't that come from an Oregon State fan? [Assuming there are any.]

[JoeTheRef]

Originally Posted by lmeadski

in a somewhat tight game kept on yelling "get the hair out of your eyes, ref!"
The scorers table kept on chuckling every time he'd yell it as I came over to report a foul.

I'm bald.

Now that's pretty funny.

Had one situation during a VG game. I'm in the "C" slot, with the coach near me, and we hear a fan yell "I'll be waiting for you in the parking lot ref" in a manner where I really couldn't tell if he was joking or not, or to which ref he was talking to. I hit my whistle and turned around at the same time the coach turns around, points to the fan and looks at the local sherrif's deputy and gives the head nod gesture towards to the fan and the fan was gone.. Apparently the fan was joking because when I initially looked up he was smiling and laughing. He didn't think it was funny when he was removed from the gym.

[blindzebra]

Fouls are 6 to 6 late second quarter I'm lead and I see the two big kids heading right toward each other going for the same spot so I say, "Easy." Does no good smash, no first contact to call, neither got there first, so I give them a, "Clean it up." Nope they are intent on beating the crap out of each other and smash together again...Bam, double foul.

Go to report, white 55, red 40 double foul white ball on the side when I hear...wait for it..."Call it both ways!"

Now I normally don't react to the crowd but I turned to where it came from and gave the WTF look and the gym cracked up.

Later in the game had a foul on white bonus coming for red, same voice, "Oh sure that's a foul you never call anything on him." The kid shooting fouled out about 30 seconds later.


Had a full gym one night, home was having a white out so one entire section was nothing but white tee shirts, late in the game loose ball kids diving, ball OOB, and a big wet spot. I call for game management and a towel when a kid jumps from 3 rows up, leap frogs off his buddies in the 2nd row and lands on the court. He whips off his shirt, gets down on all fours and starts wiping up the spot. I see a spot about a foot from my feet so I say, "You missed a spot," and point, he gets the spot and then buffs my shoes.


I had about 1,500 kids in a student crazies section start a you suck chant when I called a clear-out PC foul on their star player on a dunk attempt. The assistant principle was in charge of GM and she came running across the gym waving a no-no finger at that section.