Yeah yeah yeah...
 

Good game this afternoon, both teams already made post season but they really don't like each other. Home pulls out the win despite a T against their HC.

After the game I wander back down before my shower to hand in our paperwork. Teams & coaches long gone, some table folk and the clean up crew still there. Announcer sees me and says good game... in fact you might be the best ref I've seen all year.

I'm the type who can take a compliment with grace, so I tell him yeah yeah yeah go f@ck yourself...make sure you're sitting with the coach when he fills out his ratings.

:)

Such a sweet disposition. . . :p

Simple math........

Home team + home announcer= yeah,yeah,yeah-go f@ck yourself.:D

Reference?

Me.

That works.

You really gave him the @ sign? How in the world did you pronounce it?

If you actually said it, that will be the last time you work there.

Did you take a picture for your scrapbook?

You speak as if you actually have some authority and inside knowledge.

Aint the internet a great place? :cool:

I will revise my remark to say it should be the last time you work there.
1) Because it's unprofessional and, while it may enhance your self-esteem, had no other value.
2) Why would the school want you back? You think the HC or AD didn't get a call after you left?

Officials have enough trouble building reputations (individually and collectively), why add to the perception that we're jerks?

OK, at least we agree it's just your opinion. Maybe next we'll agree that it's possible that your opinion is based on incomplete knowledge of the situation and the people who were actually involved and is at best ill-informed and highly worthy of disregard.

It's pronounced "at". So the word must have sounded like "fatck".

Keep Away From Dressing Room, Please ...
 

Many years ago, as a junior varsity official, I stayed to watch the varsity game, and went into the dressing room to pick up my bag after the varsity game. As I'm exchanging pleasantries with the varsity officials, the winning, visiting, coach, sticks his head in the door of the dressing room and says, in a nonsarcastic tone, "Nice game guys". One of the varsity officials replies, in my opinion, very unprofessioinally, but honestly, considering this coaches usual attitude, "I bet you wouldn't be saying that if you lost?". It took both me, and the other varsity official, to physically separate them to keep them from killing each other.

Bottom line for officials: Always try to act professionally.
Bottom line for coaches: No matter how good your intentions are, stay away from the dressing room after the game.

This is true.

The fine citizens of MA had difficulty mastering the pronunciation of that work (fah t K) so the dropped the t sound completely.... as in "find a spaht to pahk the facking cah already ya losah..."

Just North Of Hell ??
 

I didn't realize that hell was just north of Boston. I always thought that Charlestown was just north of Boston.

Do people not have a sense of humor? Don't you realize that you clearly don't have the entire story? Perhaps the guy is Dan's longtime friend or a fellow official or perhaps he really didn't say that. What person in his right mind would say to a random person "go fsck yourself" after a compliment, no matter how shallow?

I will give a great example of this. I worked a game recently where the coach of the home team had one of the officials working that game had this home team earlier in the season. The official and the coach knew each other for a long time considering the official has been around for 30 plus years and the coach has been around probably 20 years if not longer. Well during the earlier game the there was a play that involved a rule that had been changed recently and this officials screwed it up. The misapplication of the rule did not affect the game or change the outcome in any way from what I understand. When I got to the locker room before the game, there were signs all over the locker room with the "New Rule Revision" and the part of the rule highlighted that this official messed up. We had the biggest laugh about this before and even during the game.

During this same game, I had called an obvious illegal screen (player chicken winged a defender, hitting the defender in the stomach). All the home coach said to me was, "I bet on the next trip with have the same call on the other end." Then he said to me, "I will bet you a 20 on the next trip." Well nothing happened and there was not even another play that I can say was even close to an illegal screen the rest of the game. I approached the coach when the game was clearly decided and the said, "Coach, we did not have another play like you described, what do I get for being right?" He had the biggest smile on his face and got a kick out of the exchange. He later said, "I am looking for something to say, it call comes around at some point." This was one of the funniest moments of the year. And this coach is very intense but very fair to officials and a nice guy off the court.

You got to learn to laugh sometimes.

Peace

I take my job on the court very seriously, but this isn't brain surgery. It's a game and everyone involved should have fun. Not my problem if the coaches don't see it that way. Nobody at my level is making big bucks - I recognize the dynamic is far different at higher levels.

We had a foul-fest last night and we called six fouls in the first two minutes, which is almost unheard of in a boys varsity game. Partner looks at me, looks at the scoreboard, looks back at me, laughing. I shrugged. It settled in, moreso in the second half.

Oh, the options. . .

1) Remember that we're talking about Dan_ref. "Right mind" is a big assumption.

or

2) I think you're underestimating Dan_ref. He's extremely shallow.

Yeah you tell em!

hey wait what was that again??! :confused: