Use Your Pink Whistles This Week ...
 

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We're donating 25% of a game fee to the American Cancer Society. My father died after a short battle with leukemia, so I'll be thinking about him when I work games this week.

Our Association has distributed the pink whistles and we've briefly talked about using them in Feb, but I haven't received the exact dates yet.

Good luck this week Billy, I know it'll be tough.

When Irish Eyes Are Smiling ...
 

Thanks. Actually it will not be tough at all, it will be great. I'm past the grieving stage, and have moved onto the stage where I enjoy thinking about my Dad's life, not his death. I've got a million stories. Don't get me started.

The next home game here is going to be "Breast Cancer Awareness Night" during the Girls' V game. The team is supposed to be wearing some special uniforms.

I was joking with the C-Squad coach that a pink ball should be used as game ball.

Have you verified with your local association(s) that the pink whistles have been authorized by your state association? I remember hearing this past football season about some officials that decided to use pink whistles were removeed from post-season assignments (or some such punishment) for using the pink whistles without the state association approving it prior to their use. I am all for this worthy cause but would hate to see fellow officials punished for trying to do good!

That happened up here in Washington.

However they were not penalized.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm..._ringer26.html

Oh brother...
 

No, that did not happen. They did use pink whistles without the state officials' association's approval but they were not penalized.

Thanks for the follow-up chseagle. The last I read on it was that they were going to be penalized... glad to hear they weren't!

There are however several that think Todd Stordahl, WOA Commissioner, needs to be removed/resign due to this incident.

"Several?" I could probably find "several" that think I should retire.

Which means nothing.

BTW, nice edit after I first posted they were not penalized.

That was just off the comments from the articles about the incident, basically layfolk that know little about the inner workings.

I do what my Association tells me. When I get the email that this is pink whistle week, I'll use it. That is, if all my P's have theirs (which they didn't last yr.) :o

Cool ...
 

We are authorized to use pink whistles this week - as long as all officials have them for the game. I have games three nights this week - will see if I actually get to use it. Many of our officials refuse to use one for some reason.

We didn't get them in our assn. Mine was white with the pink ribbon in VT. Mom has her first chemo treatment on Tuesday. She has had two battles already. My mother-in-law had a 26 year battle in 5 episodes. Sadly, she lost her last bout in Nov. 2009. I hope that next year, we'll be doing it. FHSAA sets aside a week in every sports season for it.

That ball would work as it'll keep the money here in Washington State since Baden is HQ'd out of Federal Way.

Probably because they'd have to spend $6 to get one. Some officials act as though they don't get paid for working games.

James 5:15-16 ...
 

And their prayer offered in faith will heal the sick, and the Lord will make them well. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and wonderful results.

Thanks to the local weekly newspaper, got a preview of the pink uniforms that are going to be worn tomorrow night.

How should an official call fouls/violations on this?

Ask your state how they want this handled. If they want the rule enforced, then one technical will be charged to the head coach for allowing his players to play with an illegal uniform. He will lose his coaching box privileges.

On the other hand, if the state allows an exception for this (which I hope they would), then play on.

The state is allowing the use of Pink uniforms, what I mean is color wise would you say white or pink when calling fouls/violations?

...red.

Weird question...:confused:

I'd go with red.

Salmon.

Magenta

Depends on the uniform color of the opponents. If the opponents are Red (or a variation of red) I would go White, if opponent's uniforms are any other color and I would probably go Red.

The opposing team will be in black.

All I know is that it'll be only the girls varsity in the Pink Uniforms right now.

Why not say pink? It is not hard to pronounce, it is not mulit-syllable. :confused:

I have never understood why we can not use the real color of the jersey. Schools are proud of their school colors. Are there really any of us referees so tongue tied that we can not say orange or yellow or pink? :rolleyes:

We usually say the correct color- as long as it's not burnt umber or something.

Try saying the color loud enough to be heard. Red, easy. Yellow, not so easy.

I call BS. With the smallest additional effort to enunciate you can be loud enough to be heard.

In a varsity contest that follows NFHS rules you have White and Something else. No matter how you pronounce the other color the players, table, coaches can tell it is either White or something else. ;)

If the players, fans, coaches, or admin are going to get upset with me for using a color that takes slightly less energy to say, let them. They're going to have a better reason to be mad at me before the game is over anyway, and they'll forget all about it.

If my partners started saying "purple," I'd probably join them, but this is an area where it's just as easy not to stand out.

While I may not be as harsh as ref2coach, I too wonder why we need to use one-syllable colors? Can anyone point me to a mechanics manual, memo, or anything that spells this out? Or, is it possible this is one of those myths that has been carried forward from generation to generation, without any actual reasoning behind it? For those that want to play the "slippery-slope" card of not wanting to distiguish between burnt umber and magenta, how are those questions any different than any other non-real-world plays we come up with to discuss other rules? Can anyone actually give me a real-world example of a burnt umber uniform, or a team known as the Fighting Magenta Penguins? If not, then it probably doesn't apply. :rolleyes:

But there is, for example, a high school conference close by that include two teams - the Purple Raiders and the Blue Devils. I've never understood the reasoning behind calling the Purple Raiders "blue", when that's not the color of their uniforms, mascot, team name, etc., and they happen to be playing an opponent that does have a blue team name, mascot, etc. It has always felt a little like we were disrespecting that team in that instance.

The Rainbow Coalition ...
 

Because that's the way God, and Dr. Naismith, intended it to be.

So, um...which Verse, or which one of Dr. Naismith's Original Rules, refers to one-syllable colors? ;)