There's agony, and then there's officiating a middle school girls game that(m)

[Hunter Johnson]

has at least 20 jumpballs and goes into overtime.

TURRIBLE, just TURRIBLE.

Although, I still love it.

[Refsmitty]

I've felt your pain - just hafta smile!

[Freddy]

Started out in '76 while in college, doing grade school games with that many jump balls each game. That was back when a jump ball was really a jump ball.
Shucks, we spent more time lining players up properly around the jump circles than we did making calls!
1-3/4 hour games were not all that uncommon.
I'm glad those days are over!
Anyone else remember that era?

Post Scriptum: Reimbursement rate was $5 per game, no matter how long each took. 3 games Friday nite, 2 Saturday morning, 3 Saturday night, 2 Sunday afternoon. $50.00 for a weekend of work was pretty big money for a college student back then. Of course, that's when tap beers were a quarter.

[refnrev]

[QUOTE=Freddy;569091]Started out in '76 while in college, doing grade school games with that many jump balls each game. That was back when a jump ball was really a jump ball.
Shucks, we spent more time lining players up properly around the jump circles than we did making calls!
1-3/4 hour games were not all that uncommon.
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Just take me now, Lord. Don't let me have to do a 1 3/4 hour grade school game. Take me now!

[derwil]

Had a middle school much as originator stated...bazillion jump balls/turn overs/fouls. Tied with 10 seconds left, team A inbounds - pass pass, shot! (clank) tweet!!! Foul! (WTG partner!! No OT!!)

Clank.

Clank.

OT.

OT.

OT. Total between both teams of 9 points scored in 3 OT periods...

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by derwil

Bazillion jump balls/turn overs/fouls.

Husband and wife, who happens to be blond, are watching the news on television. There's a story about two Brazilian skydivers dying in a freak accident. Wife starts to sob uncontrollably. Husband asks her why she's sobbing. She says that this is a huge disaster, and is imagining the sorrow that those families are going through. After a few seconds, she asks her husband, "How many in a brazilian?".

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Hunter Johnson

goes into overtime.

Was that your fault or your partner's?

[BEAREF]

All my games have just one jumpball ... unless I cause it to go to overtime.

[CaRef5]

yeah i feel your agony...last night i had a JV girls game that looked like a middle school girls game... the score was 22-2 at halftime


all i did was smile

[grunewar]

I remember a game last yr (G7th grade) in which my partner and I seemed to TWEET every five or six seconds. The game had absolutely NO flow (only good part was we get $50/game at that venue). I had a headache at halftime!! ARGH!!

I will say though, about a month later I went back there for another game (dreading it of course) and they had improved greatly (thank goodness) and it really wasn't that bad.

[mutantducky]

one day there will be a story about a ref hanging himself with their own whistle during a middle school girls game that goes into 4 ots.


"real jump balls"- made me shutter reading that.

[budjones05]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

Was that your fault or your partner's?

Why did I figure Mark was going to ask this question?

[muxbule]

Originally Posted by budjones05

Why did I figure Mark was going to ask this question?

Because when he has a name he goes to his witch doctor to have the overtime devil removed from that offical figuring it is evil spirits that caused the OT and until all overtime games are gone he can not rest.

[snorman75]

I tossed a grandmother out of a 8th grade girls game a few year back. She would not stop mouthing off. It is still lore around the area.

Originally Posted by snorman75

I tossed a grandmother out of a 8th grade girls game a few year back. She would not stop mouthing off. It is still lore around the area.

I tossed a dad out of a Kindergarten game because he wouldn't stop mouthing off. Now his kid is in JH...and I don't normally do JH, guess I'll have to wait till he hits HS.