Earrings & Liability

[Adam]

Originally Posted by ref18

I actually had an incident with a soccer league I supervise, earrings were allowed, and not knowing anything about soccer, I didn't make an issue of it. However last week, an earring got caught in the mesh of a soccer net, and was subsequently ripped out of the ear. Definitely not a pretty sight.

I can't tell you how many times the girls around here get their ears stuck in the basketball nets.

Okay, seriously, this is a good example. Earrings could just as easily get caught in another player's jersey or hair as they could in a net.