What's wrong with this picture?

[Mark Padgett]

Worked five rec games today. Four were 8th grade boys, one was 8th grade girls. I issued exactly zero Ts. Didn't even have a single DOG warning. Never gave a coach the stop sign. I must be getting soft in my old age.

If there had been any overtimes, I would have thought I was on the TV show "Life On Mars".

[26 Year Gap]

Are you sure it was you?

[PSidbury]

I think your T "deficiency" was made-up in one of my games today.

And not only that, but I got my first "That was the worse officiating I have ever seen," from a parent as my partner and I were walking out the door of gym.

4 youth league games today (play-offs), and in the last game (U16) I called three T's and my partner called one.
All were justified player unsportsmanlike conduct-taunting calls.
Coaches were relatively calm.
Two T's (one was my partner's) went to the same player, so he was out in the 3rd quarter.

So, this particular parent happened to be the father of the two-T's player.
The dad was your typical control-freak a-hole-type... constantly yelling during the game... yelling at the refs... and even yelling across court to the coach to run such-and-such play.

In fact, my partner and I discussed at half-time how much more we would "listen to" to before getting the gym supervisor involved.

Anyway, as my partner and I are literally walking out the exit doors, this father steps in front of us and says, "That was the worst officiating I have ever seen."

And, so I used the line that many of us have seen on this board before...

"Uh, sir, that would be a statistical impossibility."
He pauses.
I continue, "To have the worst ref and the worst fan in the same building together."
And my partner and I walk on out the door.

May not have been all that professional, but, I did say "Sir", it was not during the game, it was on my way out the door, and damn if it didn't feel good...
And thanks to this board, that little comeback has been in the back of my mind for a season and a half now.

Paul

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

If there had been any overtimes, I would have thought I was on the TV show "Life On Mars".

Why, is that how your games went in 1973?

[grunewar]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

I must be getting soft in my old age.

Either:

1) Lets not judge this change in life on just one day of games, or

2) I know there are meds for this!

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Why, is that how your games went in 1973?

Come on. Mark Padgett goes farther back than that. In fact when Mark Padgett officiated a game for the Doctor Naismith, he tried to convince the good doctor to change Rule 13 from this, "The side making the most goals in that time shall be declared the winner. In case of a draw, the game may, by agreement of the captains, be continued until another goal is made.", to this, "The side making the most goals in that time shall be declared the winner. In case of a draw, the game may, by agreement of the officials, be ruled a tie".

[Adam]

Haven't watched "Life On Mars," have you?