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Old Fri Sep 26, 2008, 07:04pm
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Important vs. Meaningless ???

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Originally Posted by Scrapper1 View Post
This "most important game" statement just isn't necessarily true. There are truly recreational leagues. Even at the high school level, there are games where one team knows going in that it's going to get crushed. They want to play well, but they know the game isn't all that important. At a lot of venues, the game is more important to the coaches and parents than it ever will be to the kids.
OK. I can agree with some of what you say. Maybe some games are more important to me than other games, but, nevertheless, they still are all important. I was fortunate to work a high school varsity post season league semifinal, and a final, this past season, and I was a little more excited about working those, than I was about working my Catholic elementary school games. In addition, if the game is more important to the coaches, and parents, than it is to the kids, then don't the coaches, and parents, deserve our best effort?

We are getting paid to do a job, and many of us are fortunate enough to get well paid for some of the low level games that we do. A Forum member refereed to a "Paycheck Official" a few weeks ago in a post. That will never be me. I do it for a lot of reasons, including, but not limited to, the money, as well as trying to give something to the game that I have so much enjoyed for over forty years.

No matter what the level, I always give it my best effort. Furthermore, I have never worked a "meaningless" game in twenty-seven years, and if I ever do, that's when I hang up my whistle.
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