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Originally posted by Rich Fronheiser
...happened to me a few weeks ago.

A coach in the area has a play he calls "five-out."

Well, guess what that sounded like to this trail official.

The coach thought I was whacking him, since he was working my partner just a minute earlier. It was mild stuff, really -- couldn't remember what he had said even then.

Comic relief? Yes.

Charged timeout? Nope. I got the teams back on the floor and we started playing. Nobody said a word although there was quite a bit of laughter for a minute.

Rich

I'm doing a medal game at a summer provincial tournament a few years ago at York University. I'm T, table side, about 10 feet from coach A. I hear some words from coach A that sound like "time-out", but am not sure. Then he says them again, louder, and with more emphasis. I decide that he's asking for a timeout, so I confirm his team has player control to grant him the TO. In the meantime, he's standing up, very much telling everyone "time-out".

I grant the TO. (His team was pressured near the division line.) The guy evaluating starts laughing. Right away I know something is up because this gentleman is one of the funniest guys I've ever met. Turns out the coach was yelling "five-out" - the name of a play that his team uses. Both coaches got a bit of a laugh out of it and about 5 seconds of some instruction to their respective players.

Luckily for me my evaluator was very understanding.