Vertigo

[rainmaker]

Had the most mixed-up game tonight, several times I just felt like I'd had a little too much of the...

To start off, blue got the tip. I tossed, so I wasn't watching the ball. About 2 seconds, partner calls the backcourt violation. She had an odd look on her face, kinda confused, and then called, "White ball?" I ran to the endline, she inbounded the ball, white player passes it to a teammate who goes to the "Wrong" end of the court for an uncontested lay-up. White fans are laughing and yelling. Blue feels confused and looks baffled -- as did I, who had gone to the truly wrong end followed by all the players except these two who knew what was up. Finally realized that I had taken my cue from blue who had headed the wrong way, thus the backcourt. Partner called it, but then thought perhaps she'd done somehting wrong, since players all went the wrong way -- and so did her partner!

And that was just the first 10 seconds of the game!!

As it progressed, blue was fouling a lot and hard. White wasn't. It wasn't long before a fan behind the blue bench was yelling "Call it both ways, ref!!" Very distinctive voice, always the same drone. But he called it on both ends, regardless of who had the ball and what the situation was!! Very confusing.

Then the blue coach started throwing me off. In the third quarter, as her player is inbounding under the far basket, she's yelling to the other blue players, "Find a player and put a body on her." I looked back, no, blue is on offense. I looked at the coach, it was the blue coach, yelling to her girls on offense, "Put a body on someone!" My head was spinning!!

Finally, I looked up near the end of the game, and the two varsity coaches were sitting ON EACH OTHER"S BENCHES!! I felt like I just got off an amusement park ride, the kind you throw up at the end of. Looked hard at the restroom sign before I went in!!