Time for weirdness
 

I was talking to a fellow official and he asked me what was the weirdest thing that ever happened in one of my games. Believe me, I had to think really hard to decide which of the millions of events would be considered by me to be the actual weirdest. I finally decided on this. In a mens wreck game about seven years ago, during a free throw sequence, one player came up behind another outside the three point line and pulled the guy's shorts down! Fortunately, the guy was wearing compression shorts underneath. To this day, I still don't know why he did it. I assumed it was just a joke between friends because that was kind of how everyone reacted.

BTW - my fellow official said the weirdest thing from his experience was when a dog ran out on the court during play (I've also had this happen).

OK - time for you guys to contribute.

There is what on the floor?
 

I cannot make this up. It was not my game, but in a X-Mas Tournament that I was working had different genders involved in the tournament. I had already worked a 3rd place game and there was a girl's game that followed. Well in that game there was something in the corner that was on the floor. It was red and it was cloth in nature. To make a long story short, someone had dropped a tampon on the floor during the game. They cleaned it up, but it was the talk of the rest of the day. I have never seen or heard of such a thing before.

Peace

JH game. The ball somehow picked up a piece of broken glass (during the game, no less!) and gradually deflated as a kid was dribbling down the court. The bounces got deader and deader until finally the ball didn't even bounce back up at all. Poor kid couldn't figure out what was wrong or what to do!! We blew it dead, got a new ball and had the floor swept!

Next question: How much water is in the ocean?

The ball come to rest on the TOP of the backboard WITHOUT going OOB. :eek:

Probably the guy had just seen a Globetrotters game. I would have thought that some kid would have missed the FTs on a Tech call on purpose to send the game into OT would have been the weirdest, but maybe that hasn't happened to Mark. Yet.

Reffing MS girls, fast break and then turnover, I am new trail and then become lead, as I turn, a toddler comes on court t about three point line. I grab the kid a la SF Giant playoff game a couple of years ago. Hold the kid, fast break scores and then I look toward fans. No one has yet claimed kid. Finally, a parent realizes their kid is being held by ref.

Similar.... Boys Varsity - 3 year old jumps out of stands and heads across the gym. As he is about halfway across, the teams start to go fast breaking the other way not knowing he was there. He makes it across without an incident.

But.

When he was at the halfway point, mom started to give chase. She made it STRAIGHT thru UNTOUCHED thru a boys varsity fast break. Funniest thing I ever saw as mom AND fast break were not affected.....

Ever seen a team purposely try to lose a game by only by a specific number of points or less?????

Several years ago, the top two HS teams in a conference were playing each other in a game to determine the champion. If green (visitior) wins, they would tie white (home). The tie-breaker was point differential: if white loses by 6pts or less they are champs; if white loses by 7pts or more, they finish second.

Sure enough, w/ 1:30 left in game white is losing by 5 and HOLDING the ball (think stalling, "four corners", "keep away", etc). Green, the team that is winning, is trapping and trying to steal the ball. No matter how open the losing team was, they didn't want to shoot the ball. Ultimately, Green gets a steal and misses a wide-open break-a-way dunk (that would have put them up by 7) and the kid on white who grabbed the rebound races down the floor and jacks up a 3 (while his teammates and coaches are yelling for him to "pull it out!"). The 3 misses and another player in white - in an effort to get the long rebound - fouls green (which then made both free throws).

Since white is down 7pts, they have to "change gears" and go from "stalling" while down 5, to jacking 3's and fouling to try and lose by less.

Eventually, White lost by 8 (which means Green won the conference championship). They were so deflated after that loss that they promptly went out and got blown out in the first round of the state playoffs.....

Never seen anything like it before or since!

I was working a tournament down at Disney and I was watching the game before mine and a dog, the dog belong to one of the workers who was in a wheelchair, walks on the court and takes a dump at the free throw line in the backcourt...way too funny!!!

Doing a elementary traveling boys game a few years back. One of my first tournaments ever. Two terrible teams playing in the "friendship game." Team A, a rag tag bunch not affiliated with an actual school like all the other teams, was being blown out with about 30 seconds left, running clock. A's coach is telling kids not to foul but of course A1 fouls. A2, the biggest kid on the team (read as "future offensive lineman and basketball FAN"), kind of pushes A1 and says "come on man, no fouls, can't you hear?" A1, the littlest kid on the team, takes exception and pushes A2 back and soon enough we have the two of them rolling around on top of each other at the top of the key. It's a ridiculous sight, like a couple of puppies rolling in the dirt. I look over at the coach hoping he will come out to break it up but he is doubled over laughing and most of the rest of the gym is too. I step toward the two little wrestlers and am about to say something when the buzzer sounds. Game over, let's all go home and forget this ever happened.

Another one for the list: had an 8th grade boys coach in our local kids rec league slap a player across the face during a game! He had been yelling at the kid but, apparently, the kid wasn't reacting properly out on the court. When he subs out, the coach approaches him yelling, then slaps him. I was in the stands observing as a Board member and I had been prepared to tell the officials to get him to stop yelling when all this happened. It seems he thought it would be OK since it was his kid. I told him that it didn't matter that it was his son, but during the game, the kid was one of "our" players and the league would not allow that kind of behavior regardless of whose kid it was.

I had the officials eject him from the gym (the kid stayed because his uncle was the AC and could watch him) and the coach was banned for life from coaching by our Board. He has two other young kids he wanted to coach. Too bad.

That kind of s**t goes under just downright shocking and outrageous. I'm glad your board gave him the boot.

Gotta love this forum.....
 

Arrived at MS tonight for my son's game (I keep the clock) and just had to chuckle.....anyone on the east coast know it's been raining non-stop for the last week.

Well, I walk into the gym my son's not playing in and there, right in front of one of the benches ON the court, is the big Rubbermaid trashcan, with liner, catching the water as it leaks down from the ceiling. Coach asks me what ya gonna do ref? I said, hey, I'm off duty tonight......ask the refs when they arrive for the game.

I have no idea how they handled it. I just know others have discussed it here before and it was a first for me!

I wonder if either of the coaches was smart enough to design a play using the can to set a pick. ;)

Think there was any pre-game dunking?

had One Last Night.....
 

B13U AAU.

About 30 seconds into the game, B1 is taking the ball down court for the first time. TWEEEET!!!!! My partner (L) blows his whistle and I mean there is really no action going on. Me (T) -> :confused:

I go to his end of the court and there is white powder all over the floor....and the floor is mighty slippery!! This is the second game of the night and this powder certainly wasn't there the first game!

It turns out its talcum powder. And now we discover it on another part of the floor!!! COACH, bring a towel!

Me - who's got powder on?!

All players give the deer in the headlights look.

One kid says, "Ref, I think it's me." You think? You don't know if you're leaking powder all over the floor? C'mon!

Took us a few minutes to clean the floor.......and hose the kid down! Sheesh!

Was There A Player Named LeBron James ???
 

Actually had that at a local HS BV game this year. Home fans wanted to imitate LeBron and tossed white powder which caused a huge cloud and left remnants all over one-half of the court. Even after sweeping there was still residue on that end for the first half until a halftime re-cleaning took care of the problem. Visitors complained it hampered their offense in the first half because they couldn't cut quickly to the basket and they got down by a good margin. Second half comeback wasn't enough to completely overcome the deficit. Lots of talk about protesting the game but I don't believe anything came of it.

This talc was apparently (ahem) inside the young man's uniform to prevent chafing and as he walked about a bit he got it all over the place! It was very slick until wiped up, but surprisingly we had no incidents or complaints.

Sounds like this kid watched the old episodes of MASH. Check those out...references to using talc to prevent chafing during the Korean summers, or at least Colonel Potter would. :D

Call Animal Control!
 

B15U AAU game today. Mid-way through the 2nd half as the game is going on, I am T and notice ALL of the parents/spectators are getting out of the bleachers and walking down the side of the court (thankfully there was allot of room) to the far end of the gym. Me - :confused: It was one of the weirdest thing that ever happened to me - like everyone was leaving in the middle of the ongoing game! All I saw the custodian with the electronic, bleacher retraction device.

At the next TO I go to the table and said how odd that looked. They had no idea what was going on either.

At the end of the game I am approached by the custodian and I asked him, "What's up?"

He said, "Snakes."

Me - :eek:

Yep, someone reported seeing one and then another snake under the bleachers. So, they moved everyone to the other side of the gym.

As I departed the parking lot for home, animal control was pulling in. Justacoach will have to finish the story if he reads this as he was staying for other games....

It was bizarre.....

Were they sure they weren't coaches? It's easy to confuse the two. :p

Yep, all coaches were accounted for at the time of the snake sighting! ;)

Snake wrangler was unsuccessful in apprehending his quarry so the balance of the proceedings were cancelled. Set to resume today at same facility if any teams so desire....

We'll see

Soon to be a Hollywood blockbuster: "Snakes in a Gym!" :eek::eek:

So if they reached the floor, would you be able to make a movie called "Snakes in the Lane?"

*EDIT* Ninja'd.

This happened in a HS girls game three years ago. My partners and I were walking from the dressing room to the floor and while we were in the hallway, there were some players from each team arguing, also in the hallway. One of them slapped a girl from the other team and then pushed her and knocked her down. A coach ran in and broke it up. He then wanted to know what we "were going to do about it?" He wanted to have the aggressive girl tossed and to start the game by shooting technicals.

One of my partners told him that, by rule, our authority did not begin until we reached the floor, so there was nothing we could do.

He was pi**ed and his attitude carried out into the game. He eventually got two Ts and was tossed. Gee - that was fun.

Here in Oklahoma we have both the HS varsity games (girls, boys) on the same night; girls first, followed by boys. It was homecoming night. Near the buzzer of the girls game a rebounder came down and hit her teammate, just over the eye, with an elbow. Blood everywhere! The homecoming ceremony was at halftime of the boys game. My partner and I came out to start the second half. The homecoming queen was having her picture taken in formal gown and her head bandaged crudely. Seems she didn't want to go to the hospital and miss the HC celebration.

I was working a game and when they opened up the doors
to the gym to cool it off a bat flew in. We had to delay about 15 min
until we could get it out of the gym.

So this was a baseball game? :rolleyes:

I went to camp down south this summer and one of the venues was a gym in a very old high school. On the last day of camp we had bat flying around the gym skimming the floor for flies. The games continued and the bat was not fazed one bit by the action going on around him.