Laughs from the work...

[Coltdoggs]

I filled in for 1 game for a ref buddy in an Adult Phillipino league at our local hoops facility...Must be a Phillipino to play...

This is not your typical Adult Rec league...The guys are all pretty cool, laid back and actually seem to enjoy their games, pleasant to the refs and each other like a group of guys from the office who are trying to get some cardio in and work up a sweat. It's not your typical adult league filled with ex-HS players who went to CRAPU and rode the bench and now has something to proove....

In short, these guys are not taking it really serious and there is a lot of dialogue between the players and refs becuase the same group of refs work this league each week...I've been up there during some of the games, so I am not unfamiliar with it having seen them and talking with my fellow refs about the league but this was my first time officiating their games...As adult WRECK leagues go...this is one I would actually consider working again....

Anyway, I was lead and a guy drove the lane, I obviously missed the contact due to having an obstructed view from one of the players...I guess the shooter got hit on the shoulder opposite side of me...I honestly didn't see it and had no whistle...

So at the next dead ball about 20 seconds later (timeout), guy on the bench (player/coach/manager) whatever he is (he wasn't playing in the game)...he says to me with a big smile..."Hey ref, did you not see that foul?"
I said "What foul"...
He said "On that last shot...he got hit in the shoulder?"
I said "Man, I didn't...I got screened out...sorry about that".
He sais..."Well didn't you hear it? I know you don't normally ref for us...in this league if we hear a foul we call it?"

We are both laughing about this at this point...

I put my arm around him and said to him "Well, most refs are known to have bad eyesight, I'm a little hard of hearing and that might be my problem tonight"....He cracked up and we slapped hands....had absolutely no problems from anyone on either team...even when I could tell they didn't like the calls...They just kept playing...