i had a game out of town last night, and it was a game between 2 below average talent teams that were JV boys. i called a travel right in front of the home teams bench, and the coach called a TO. i asked the coach, full or thirty, he replied how can that be a travel? i asked again full or thirty he said, how can that be a travel, i said to the table, full time out white. the coach backed away and never said too much more throughout the game.

Coach: Hey ref, watch for 54 pushing underneath!

Me: Sure, coach...which team?

Used this one on varsity players, too. Wish I had a camera for all the confused looks I get.

WOMANPLAYER:ref' can i play with a long shirt under my T shirt?
RFEREE:why is that?what happend?
WO'PLAYER:i have a woman problem...
REF':OK but next time you have to shave under you'r...
p.s
this could happend only in israel...

My standard reply to any question is "what do you think".

Are you a fan of the show Cheers?

A great scene is where Sam is telling Lillith about some problem and he asks her advice.

Sam: "What do you think I should do?"
Lillith: "I'll ask you what I ask all my patients: 'What do you think?' "

--Pause. . .--

Sam: "They pay you for that?"
Lillith: "What do you think?"

:D

Chuck

Sr. High Church League
 

Didn't use this in the game but after-

My partner and I had a Sr.High Church league game last night where a team had just won the Sr High Church State Championship this past weekend.They have(had) not lost a league game in 3 years but here is the situation:

Worst possible scenerio for this team (A) in which they are playing the second place team in the league (B) this night and it is a close contest throughout. About mid 3rd Q, I call a foul on A's best player who has been yapping all night so I warned him that that was all I was goingt to take. He proceeded to say "I guess I'm just used to the refs we had this weekend since they are much more qualified." TWEET!. There's one T for him After the Tech free throws he says he was sorry (like this will help) and proceeds to play the "rest" of the game quietly.

Two minutes later ,A's hot dogging PG steals the ball and drives for a typical lay-up. After this he proceeds to point and tell B's PG "You ain't worth nuthin'!" to which my partner responds with a T of his own ,which, by the by-laws of the league, ends the game after 2 unsportmanlike T's on one team.Needless to say A was VERY upset, being in their home gym and all but after the game the kid I called the 1st T on came up and said the exact same comment about the officials from the past weekend to which I responded , "Well, obviously I'm used to High School caliber players but since you weren't qualified enough to make your High School team, it makes my job harder since you guys are less talented."

Re: Sr. High Church League
 

I know this is thread is about comebacks, but that is just flat out wrong to say that to a kid.

Mregor

Re: Re: Sr. High Church League
 

I'm going to have to agree

Are you sure you're not in France? :p

Mark Padgett
you are killing me....one of you'r best..

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This is something i believe ALL of us have thought at one time or another during the beginning of our officiating careers, but to acctually respond like that would make us no better than the immature players that were involved.

The kid may have had a legit point.

the best feeling comes when a fan is going crazy in the stands and you just look at him and smile and keep smiling until he can barely contain his rage, then he looks like the idiot now!!

Or find a game adminstrator, point the fan out to him. Get the adminstrator to make eye contact with the fan, and say "See the guy in the blue? We won't have to worry about him anymore, he knows we see him".

i had a game the other night, the first time in this gym and reffing this home team. I made a call and there was a person on the baseline who proceeded to go off on me i gave him the eye because he ws on the baseline. he kept going, i asked him to cool and he told me that i could not talk to him that way. i asked if he wanted to stay and he continued going off. I immediately went to the ad and asked him the remove the gentlemen for the gym and the AD asked who it was, i pointed and he asked what he did. I said i would tell him later, packed gym and the fans were getting restless. He said he needed to know becasue i just threw his Varsity coach outta the gym. I wasnt very popular after that, but ya know, none of the coaches conplained to me about a single call for the rest of the game.

There's always the classic, "Coach, I have to be here." With the emphasis on "I". Jim