Yelling In The Crowd (Another Official)

[OHBBREF]

Don't care who he is or about next Saturday, If he shouts my name while talking about calls from the stands it's personal and I hope the game is on the radio because that is the only way he is going to experience the end of it.
the administration would do it though I would not directly toss him.

As an official you are always an official when watching a game, you can root like a parent no problem, but you have to remember that people who know you, - know that you are an official so what you do is liable to come back and haunt you some time.

Even as a parent, he can disagree with a call, but to "call you out on it personally" that is classless, feel free to Puke in his shoes or shorts for that matter. As an official you have to remember that once people see you on the floor you will always be an official in their minds, so how you act will reflect upon everyone else in the profession.

I believe that you have to call him on it though, directly or with some association back up, it just gives us all one more black eye.

Think about the guys a couple of years ago in the locker room that said some inappropriate things that were over heard through an air duct that ended up getting suspended for a few games. More recently there were some guys who went out to have a burger and a beer after agame and there was some issue about something they said amoungst themselves.

I like the idea about bringing up how to deal with A$$ hole fans in your pregame especially if it is a three man crew to see how he responds.

[ChrisSportsFan]

I am of the opinion that we are a brotherhood...even if we don't like what a fellow official is doing/calling. The other parents on your team know you are an official and they already think ALL officials are blind and don't know the rules. Now you start yelling at the officials and only reinforce their thinking. I go to my kids games and see all kinds of things I don't agree with but I never say a word. If they come to me later and ask I always preface my comments with "of course I didn't have the same look you did but this is what I thought". Being an official has somewhat distanced me from being an overzealous fan.

Now to answer your question...I had this happen and had a fellow official removed. I never brought it up with that official and never will. I know this official is a very smart person and I truly believe they realized what they did was inappropriate. If this person brings it up then we will discuss it and hopefully it will be a professional conversation. Since this happened there has been enough opportunities and it has not been brought up so I doubt it ever will.

What would I do if this happened again? I would handle it almost the exact same way. The game management would be notified that this overzealous fan has to leave and I would wait til he brought it up. The only thing I would change from the first time is to make sure I notified the assignor right away. This was just brought up at a recent meeting so I'm sure those in attendence will not be doing any of this nonsense.