Black Jerseys

[jdw3018]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

I say "orange" as close to one syllable as possible.

When I called in South Carolina, even "red" was two syllables for most of my partners, so I guess it shouldn't be that much trouble to say "orng"...

I suggested red to my partners as suggested above, but they didn't like it. No biggee, but good to see others thinking my way.

[Eastshire]

Originally Posted by jdw3018

Not to take away from the black/white jersey, but I had a team wearing orange jerseys for the first time I can ever remember the other day. Surprising, as I've been doing this for almost a decade, but I couldn't think of another.

Anyway, any of you call orange anything but orange? Every other color I see gets a one-syllable color. Purple is "blue", burgundy is "red", yellow is "gold", chartreuse is, well, whatever it's close to (isn't that greenish?).

So, anyone ever change orange to anything else?

I'm fairly sure I just mash it into a single syllable.

I have had a player wearing yellow correct me when I called it gold.

"Yes, but that's two syllables."

[Welpe]

You should have suggested using "achromatics" or "total absorption".

[Rich]

Originally Posted by referee99

Had a partner over the weekend for CYO 6th grade game. One team had black uniforms with red accents. This team had two black players and a black coach. He wanted to call them "Red" during the game. I told him to get real. Go with "Black shirts" if you have an issue.

I suppose this may be an issue for some people out in the world. Is there protocol in other parts of the officiating world? Non-white officials not wanting to call home team "White"?

Silly. Just silly.

[fullor30]

Originally Posted by richmsn

silly. Just silly.

+1000