Odd/usual injuries during basketball games

[dave30]

Strangest injury in a game I was working......coach was down on one knee leaning out over the court. I turned and ran back as lead on a fast break steal. My knee hit the coach right in the head and he almost blacked out! I waited until the kid scored and called for official timeout to rub my knee and check on the coach. He was woozy, but otherwise OK!

This one may be an urban legend, but a ref told me he saw a high school game where a kid tried to dunk, got his finger caught in the net and ripped his finger off! He said they rushed him to the hospital to sew it back on!

As a player: in high school we won a district championship and in the process of cutting down the nets, one of my friends sliced a deep gash into his arm requiring a lot of stitches!

[refiator]

Then there's the bad toss to start the game..... The ball was swatted into my face...It hurt twice...Once for my nose, and once for my partners not calling the toss back for a re-do!

[zm1283]

Originally Posted by refiator

Then there's the bad toss to start the game..... The ball was swatted into my face...It hurt twice...Once for my nose, and once for my partners not calling the toss back for a re-do!

Precisely the reason you spit your whistle out before you toss.

[Corndog89]

Welpe, Snaqs, et. al. -- Thanks for making this just about the funniest thread ever...I've been going back to it and laughing for 2 days. "I want to Fly like an Eagle..."

[grunewar]

Originally Posted by dave30

Strangest injury in a game I was working......coach was down on one knee leaning out over the court. I turned and ran back as lead on a fast break steal. My knee hit the coach right in the head and he almost blacked out! I waited until the kid scored and called for official timeout to rub my knee and check on the coach. He was woozy, but otherwise OK!

How could you tell?

Just kidding coaches....ok, maybe not so much.

VB game last night and the opportunity presented itself for me to WHACK a coach, and I obliged. Only my second T to a coach. Somehow, it felt good and very natural.....

My senior P (30 yrs officiating) said it was a good call and said, "way to take care of bidness." That's my kind of P. Good stuff!

[Welpe]

Good job, Grune. I whacked four coaches this season including one that came about five feet on to the court to scream at me after making a call he didn't like...while I was working by myself. No sympathy from me on that one. He was about half a second from getting a second because he was refusing to sit down.

[chseagle]

Depending on what happens with my training schedule for the US Census Bureau, I may or may not be working the ConAgra Foods/LambWeston 4A Regional Basketball Tournament on February 26 & 27.

From the sounds of it, I would be doing timer operations. So I'd be sitting at the scorers' table.

[Welpe]

Waitaminute...you're a Census worker too?

[chseagle]

Originally Posted by Welpe

Waitaminute...you're a Census worker too?

I wear many hats.

I assisted with the 2000 Census as a Non-Response Followup Enumerator & Group Quarters Enumerator.

So far, for the 2010 Census, I assisted with the Address Canvassing Operation.

[Welpe]

Can I file a complaint with you then over the gratuitous waste of our tax dollars on the stupid commercials, including the ones aired during the Super Bowl? I'd appreciate it if you bumped it up the chain.

[chseagle]

Originally Posted by Welpe

Can I file a complaint with you then over the gratuitous waste of our tax dollars on the stupid commercials, including the ones aired during the Super Bowl? I'd appreciate it if you bumped it up the chain.

Haha, I am not that far up in the chain.

A lot of people are making complaints about the commercials. In the long run, what they're trying to do is save tax payers' money by getting more people to mail their initial questionnaires in. Instead of having to send out the NRFU Enumerators to make house calls.

Concerning the 4A Regionals, I just found out there's going to be a few 3A Regional games to be played on Saturday at the same site.

[Adam]

Damned Revenuers!

[grunewar]

Originally Posted by chseagle

I wear many hats.

I assisted with the 2000 Census as a Non-Response Followup Enumerator & Group Quarters Enumerator.

So far, for the 2010 Census, I assisted with the Address Canvassing Operation.

As I continue to write his biography using only Forum posts......

[justacoach]

Originally Posted by grunewar

As I continue to write his biography using only Forum posts......

I move we start a collection to buy Eagleboy an identity theft subscription to absolve ourselves of any culpability....
Maybe Mr. Lee, his AD would like to make the first contribution?

[just another ref]

You could just count the people in the crowd as you control them.