Ratting out a fellow ref?

[lmeadski]

Originally Posted by jdw3018

The only thing I may have changed from your description is to back up the officials even more - by saying from your angle in the crowd you thought it was actually the right (no) call. Then he has to out-and-out lie to tell them what he told them. The way you put it "they had the best angle and not all contact is a foul" could be interepreted as a PC way of saying "I didn't agree with it."

When the play happened, I was sitting two people away from the mom of the injured player. Of course, she was surrounded by all her friends. And, of course, all her friends felt the need to support her by hurling as many curses and insults as they could at the refs. One of them then asks me, "You were the ref in the other game, wasn't that a foul?" I don't remember what I said but I remember his reply, "You sons a *****in refs are all the same." I think I had concurred with refs call. That comment is what drove me to be a bit more political with the AD. Not that I disagree with your comment...And, JRut, you are right, silence is golden. However, I felt the verbal support of my brothers was needed at the time.