Jewelry rule causes yelling
 

Had an 8th grade girls game last night. One of the girls on the visiting team had earrings. We told the coach before the game that if she wanted to play, she had to remove them. He went over and told her mom. She yelled (yes, yelled) that it was "impossible" to remove them because she just had them put in. The coach looked at us and I told him if she was going to play, they had to be removed. It was a player safety rule and we could not overlook it. He told the mom and she again yelled, this time it was, "That's the stupidest thing I ever heard!" I was tempted to reply, "Then I guess you never watch Fox News", but I just ignored her.

After the game, the mom stormed down out of the bleachers to confront us. She yelled, "I want to talk to you" while pointing directly at me. I grabbed my coat from under the table and quickly put on my earmuffs. I turned to her and said, "Go ahead". She just stared as I picked up my bag and walked out.

Where would this world be without middle school moms? ;)

It is amazing how quickly those "impossible" to remove earrings come out.

Mark, you need to expand your horizons some, I hear plenty of stupid things on CNN and MSNBC too. :D

Better off comes to mind but that's not appropriate to say so I would like to retract that comment

-Josh

This has nothing to do with the jewelry situation, but I just thought I'd mention that the score of this game at the half was H 30, V 15 and the final score was H 33, V 18. Yes, that's right. Each team scored only 3 points in the entire second half. It was really weird.

"Coach, next season you might want to warn your girls at the beginning of the season that they cannot play with earrings, so they should wait until the season is over."

Let us stop this myth right now. It is not impossible to remove earrings or studs that were used to pierce your ear. I had both my ears pierced years ago (before I officiated) and you can take them out for a short period and put them back it. It might hurt, but it is possible. And sports are a privilege, not a right. So it is a simple choice.

Peace

I asked this very question to a cousin who used to pierce ears at her job. She said the same thing. An hour isn't going to do any damage.

Rut, when I saw your name on this thread, I thought for sure it would be a comment about not working either middle school nor girls ball. :)

Happy hour and Christmas parties would be a lot less entertaining.

Nope. For the record, I see this a lot in high school games with boys that give the same line.

Peace

I was at my son's B13/15 Rec practice the other night. As it was ending a G10U team was coming in. I noticed one girl with earings and braided hair with three, wooden 1/2" long beads at the end of each strand of hair.

I had never met the dad. I walked over, introduced myself and asked him if we could talk for a second. I quietly informed him - I'm not sure what the league or Rec Refs will do, but here are the rules.

Mark - unlike your example, he was appreciative of the information as he said he didn't know. He was making the adjustments as I departed.

Sometimes, some of em get it! Sometimes....... :rolleyes:

ALOT less entertaining :cool:

And I've seen MS and HS JV girls choose to sit out rather than remove the earrings. I've seen it in basketball in the past and JV VB this fall. As a coach, I wouldn't be very please with the choice of a player to sit out a game for earrings.

What really pisses me off is when I tell little Julie she has to take her earrings out and the coach says "Don't worry, we'll tape them."

"Uh, Coach. Thats not acceptable. They must be removed."

"Well, the referee last week let us tape them. What, you hate little girls or are you just power mad?" :mad::mad::mad: (Ok, I made that last sentence up.)

I prefer to tell them they cannot play with them in.

True. And in fact I did tell an irate 6th grade Mom, that her daughter didn't have to take them out, but she didn't have to play either. She got the point.

Are you a lawyer? :D