Physical tests...

[ref2coach]

Originally Posted by bainsey

Does your association do them?

No, but I sure wish we did. I am often embarrassed to be standing with 2 referees who are so rotund that they waddle to the pre-game meeting with Game Administration.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by ref2coach

No, but I sure wish we did. I am often embarrassed to be standing with 2 referees who are so rotund that they waddle to the pre-game meeting with Game Administration.

Then how do you tell them apart from the coaches - by their shirts?

[grunewar]

Originally Posted by ref2coach

No, but I sure wish we did.

Concur.

Originally Posted by ref2coach

I am often embarrassed to be standing with 2 referees who are so rotund that they waddle to the pre-game meeting with Game Administration.

While not THIS bad, I understand your point. But, I kinda like being the "thinner-one."

[26 Year Gap]

Back before the gap, there was official in our association that was told he would not do any games until he lost weight and improved his appearance. He looked to be expecting triplets. I moved away after graduation, so I do not know the end result. There is a guy in my new association like that. But nobody will tell him to get with the program. He needs to lose 150 lbs. At my clinic this summer, he got assigned to my crew of 3. The post-game talk was 90% about him being out of shape. Much of the other 10% was directed at us, of which a good share could rightly (and was silently) be attributed to him being out of position.