5 seconds on throw-in

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Originally Posted by BillyMac

I had a good natured exchange with a fan a few years ago when he said something similar: "Hey Referee. Would you like me to give your dog some water?" "What dog?" "You're Seeing Eye Dog in your car."

I had a fan ask the entire crew as we came out before the game, "is this your phone." as he pointed to a cell phone on the bleachers. Of course we all indicated that it was not our phone. He said, "I thought it must have been one of yours, because I see it has a lot of missed calls."

I punched him in the mouth.

A guy I worked with once has a half of an arm because of a birth defect (other arm is a normal one). Great ref, worked many years. One day, we were working a very tight game, and he was approaching the table to report a foul, and out of the stands comes: "hey ref, do you got one eye too?" He had to chuckle, and said, no, but my partner only has one ear! It got really quiet in the gym, and I chuckled and told the players, this may be the only time you'll have two "disabled" guys on the floor with you. Never saw so many deer in the headlights looks. LOL