Very inappropriate comments from fans and how to address

[ref2coach]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

I grew up in a small farm town in the middle of Iowa;... I had never even heard it used in that way.
... I learned a lesson on southern racial history.

I grew up in a small (250 people) farming town in Eastern, Central IL. I knew nothing of racism until I played Jr College basketball with several team mates from inner city Detroit. I went and lived ~month with one of my team mates in the 5 mile drive area of inner city Detroit. My introduction to racism was were I was the minority. That is why I find irony in most racism stories being myopic. To those who took offense, I apologize.

[JugglingReferee]

Wasn't there a recent case in a pro sports league (NFL?) where an athlete was called "boy" by a game official?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

Wasn't there a recent case in a pro sports league (NFL?) where an athlete was called "boy" by a game official?

I think it was baseball, and I don't know that it was verified.

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

I think it was baseball, and I don't know that it was verified.

Found it. It was Baltimore Ravens cornerback Samari Rolle claiming that an NFL official called him "boy". I remember that the news reported that Samari said that the official "never played football". I remember thinking how he would know the official hadn't ever played football. A pretty dumb comment, imho.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

Found it. It was Baltimore Ravens cornerback Samari Rolle claiming that an NFL official called him "boy". I remember that the news reported that Samari said that the official "never played football". I remember thinking how he would know the official hadn't ever played football. A pretty dumb comment, imho.

I was thinking of the Milton Bradley incident, I think. Bradley claimed he'd been taunted by the ump. I must have confused the two.

[deecee]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

I was thinking of the Milton Bradley incident, I think. Bradley claimed he'd been taunted by the ump. I must have confused the two.

Aww, poor Milton. He's always been such a saint.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

Found it. It was Baltimore Ravens cornerback Samari Rolle claiming that an NFL official called him "boy". I remember that the news reported that Samari said that the official "never played football". I remember thinking how he would know the official hadn't ever played football. A pretty dumb comment, imho.

It was the Ravens/Pats game on MNF in 2007. Rolle whined about a play by telling the official he had probably never played the game before. The official had in fact played in the NFL (KC Chiefs I believe). I imagine his response to Rolle was something along the line was "Boy, you don't know WTF you are talking about". Kinda like I address my son when he starts flapping his gums about sh!t he knows nothing about.

[just another ref]

To each his own. A racial remark means very little to me. If you hurl a racial remark at me, you are trying to be hurtful. I am not much interested in your little game. You are the one with the problem. I would find it worse to be called incompetent or stupid than anything racial, except that the huge majority of people that call us incompetent or stupid are not qualified to make this judgment. By far the worst thing to me is when fans/coaches/players question our integrity. These accusations, of course, are motivated by a wide range of reasons, real and imagined, one of which quite often is race.

Call me blind. Call me stupid. Don't call me a cheater.