Officiating other sports

[DLH17]

Originally Posted by Andy

...where else does your job consist of pointing a gun in the air and firing blanks??

uuuuuuuh....what exactly do you use to point that gun with.

[Mark Padgett]

There's a new sport I'm thinking of officiating. Since it's new, I can probably get in on the ground floor and work my way up to the pros pretty quick. Of course I'm talking about javelin catching.

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

There's a new sport I'm thinking of officiating. Since it's new, I can probably get in on the ground floor and work my way up to the pros pretty quick. Of course I'm talking about javelin catching.

Well, usually, only the freshmen compete because they are guaranteed a starting position. If they survive to become sophomores, they move on to other events.

[dave30]

Junior High Volleyball.

[Kingsman1288]

As the joke in my association goes,

If you want to steal money from a school, become a volleyball official

[Texas Aggie]

Junior High Volleyball.

Every year at basketball camps, we chat about other sports. I've found a BUNCH of guys who've started doing volleyball and talk about it like they are stealing money. When I tell them I do football, they sneer at me -- hate the weather (rarely a problem, except last year), the rules, the uniform (got a point there), etc. But I did volleyball for 2 years and while I love the sport, I had to take uppers to stay awake during my games and couldn't wait for them to end. I had, I think, ONE match -- a playoff game that matched 2 good teams -- where I wanted it to go 3 games. Everything else I wanted it over with, so I decided it wasn't worth it.

The volleyball uniform rocks! I'll give them that.