Oh yeah, this would work - not!

[Mark Padgett]

We had our annual referee pizza party for our local kids rec league officials Sunday night and one of the guys told me this unbelievable story. He's a college student and works as an intern for a neighboring county's district attorneys office. He said one of the attorneys in that office asked him if our league would be interested in having some convicts officiate games as part of a work release program. At first, he thought the guy was kidding, but he wasn't.

Yeah, that's just what we need - criminals (possibly a pedophile or two) working with young kids. I can just see us posting guards in the rest rooms.

Anyway, he told the guy we had enough officials, thank you very much, plus we were in a different county, so they couldn't do that anyway. Pretty quick thinking.

Since I live in the "other" county, at least it's not my tax dollars at work with brilliant ideas like that.

I must admit, however, the prospect of having a coach try to argue with a convicted murderer does have some appeal.