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Old Sat Feb 02, 2008, 04:36pm
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Blue Whistles

I'm watching the DUKE vs. Miami game and noticed one of the officials use a blue whistle. I havent seen the rest of the crew does anyone know anything about that? Let me know. I think the official using it is Tom Eades.
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Old Sat Feb 02, 2008, 05:06pm
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I'm watching the DUKE vs. Miami game and noticed one of the officials use a blue whistle. I havent seen the rest of the crew does anyone know anything about that? Let me know. I think the official using it is Tom Eades.
No, I have seen a solid white Fox 40 mini.
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Old Sat Feb 02, 2008, 05:25pm
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It's part of Blow the Whistle on Cancer. Officials are giving some if not all of their game check to the Jimmy V Foundation to help find a cure.

Men's officials are using blue whistles, while Woman's officials are using pink whistles.

http://www.naso.org/jimmyv/
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Old Sat Feb 02, 2008, 06:03pm
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where can I donate and obtain one of these whistles?
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Old Sat Feb 02, 2008, 06:35pm
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I'm watching the DUKE vs. Miami game and noticed one of the officials use a blue whistle. I havent seen the rest of the crew does anyone know anything about that? Let me know. I think the official using it is Tom Eades.
Tommy,

how's your leg? How the heck did you see the blue whistle on tv?
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Old Sat Feb 02, 2008, 06:58pm
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Pink Whistle

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It's part of Blow the Whistle on Cancer. Officials are giving some if not all of their game check to the Jimmy V Foundation to help find a cure. Men's officials are using blue whistles, while Woman's officials are using pink whistles.
I used my pink whistle today. I was actually distracted by it, bright pink, within my peripheral vision. I guess that after twenty-seven years, it became easy to ignore a black whistle, against a black and white jersey, within my peripheral vision.

http://www.iaabo.org/Blow%20the%20wh...er!%202007.pdf

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Old Sat Feb 02, 2008, 08:43pm
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where can I donate and obtain one of these whistles?
Pick out your favorite whistle color and write a check to some charity. It will be a good excuse to why you are using a camouflage whistle.

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Tommy,

how's your leg? How the heck did you see the blue whistle on tv?

Hey Marco. The knee was doing great in the beginning of the season. Now it's starting to act up again. I had a game tonight and started to act up again. We will see. How is the season going??
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Old Sun Feb 03, 2008, 12:28pm
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where can I donate and obtain one of these whistles?
Go to that website for more information on how to donate. As far as the whistles, some boards or associations are passing them out. However, I got mine from amazon.com.
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Old Sun Feb 03, 2008, 06:27pm
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On a slightly different note-I use the metallic gold Fox 40 classic whistles to present to the most improved high school referee who officiate at our primary(elementary school) comps.

Just a fun thing to reward them for improvement.
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Old Sun Feb 03, 2008, 07:50pm
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"I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night"

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On a slightly different note-I use the metallic gold Fox 40 classic whistles to present to the most improved high school referee who officiate at our primary (elementary school) comps. Just a fun thing to reward them for improvement.
I got a black Fox 40 Classic for having the least questions wrong, eleven of eighty, at one of our local IAABO board's Refresher Exam sessions. I had been using a Mini Fox 40, but after using my "prize" this season, I'm going back to the Classic full time.

Also, the reason that I only got eleven wrong was that the night before the exam session, "I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express".

That's the good news. The bad news is that a junior varsity official, at another session, got only nine wrong. He also must have "Stayed at a Holiday Inn Express".
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Old Sun Feb 03, 2008, 07:53pm
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Go to that website for more information on how to donate. As far as the whistles, some boards or associations are passing them out. However, I got mine from amazon.com.
so no special markings on them or anything?
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Old Sun Feb 03, 2008, 11:47pm
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so no special markings on them or anything?
Nope.
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