Canadian reffing NBA Summer League

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by Ref_in_Alberta

Mike was hired this week which makes him the 1st Canadian official to get the job.

Congrats, Mike!

Sorry - amend my post to read "...invited to am NBA tryout camp."

I'll agree that nobody has reached the level he has.

[constable]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

I clicked on the link to his picture and he seems to be using a Fox 52.6 whistle. That's the metric version of the Fox 40.

Gotta love how American's knock the metric system when they are one of only 3 countries in the world who are still 50 years behind the times..

[canuckrefguy]

Originally Posted by constable

Gotta love how American's knock the metric system when they are one of only 3 countries in the world who are still 50 years behind the times..

Yeah, congratulations to the USA for being on par with those gloriously modern 21st century democracies Burma and Liberia

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by canuckrefguy

Burma

Hey. It's the 21st century. Let's get with the program. It's Myanmar.

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Hey. It's the 21st century. Let's get with the program. It's Myanmar.

Whose program? That of the brutally repressive regime that promulgated the name change?

There's more politics than political correctness in that name change.

[canuckrefguy]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Hey. It's the 21st century. Let's get with the program. It's Myanmar.

Only if you recognize the brutal military dictatorship running the country.

Which I DO NOT.

Long live BURMA

[Kingsman1288]

Originally Posted by canuckrefguy

Only if you recognize the brutal military dictatorship running the country.

Which I DO NOT.

Neither does he.



We don't need the metric system when we have him. BTW, the most recent one (set in Burma) was actually surprisingly decent.