F-I-F-T-Y fouls

[IowaMike]

Originally Posted by grunewar

JR, I'll be the first to admit that I try to avoid getting involved in crowd/fan behavior and need to engage better when necessary. I was the junior partner. My P's and I talked about it at half-time and we all passed on it. Live and learn.

Good point; don't worry about the crowd unless they are throwing out profanities etc. I generally laugh inside about most of their ignorant comments. Along those lines, I called a varsity boys game last night with two officials I did not know and had never worked with (the guys I was supposed to work with both got subs). My female partner, who called a decent game but was a bit different personality wise, ended up having game management eject a home fan with about three minutes left in the game. I asked her after the game what the guy said, thinking he dropped an f bomb on her or something, and this was it: "you have to be the worst official ever." I was dumbfounded that she would have a fan ejected for that, or why she would even care. She was really proud of that ejection but I found it embarrassing. If a coach said that, definite T; a fan says it, who cares?