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Another crazy one......

JVB game a few yrs ago.

H has a male cheerleader. His entire appearance and demeanor indicate he is gay (not that there's anything wrong with that) and he is doing nothing to hide it.

He is very demonstrative, enthusiastic, and really into the game along the H endline. Midway through the fourth qtr one of the H players throws a baseball pass that misses his intended teammate and hits the male cheerleader right square in the groin!

He let out a very loud, non-masculine, high pitched - ooooooh! The entire crowd gasped. :eek:

He doubles over and walks toward the side of the court behind the bleachers in obvious discomfort. The crowd was absolutely stunned and the gym became absolutely quiet. Some smiling, some wincing, but no one missed it! I bit my whistle" in order to stop from laughing.......

He recovered after a few minutes......but, was a little "less enthusiastic" the rest of the game.

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Originally Posted by mark padgett (Post 786254)

i had a game about 10 years ago in which the two players for the opening tip were way taller than me. I mean really, really tall. I got set to toss the ball and we all were looking up. My mechanic for the toss is to pick a point in the air about three feet above the tallest jumper and concentrate on tossing the ball straight up to that point. I went to throw the ball and my toss hit one of the jumpers on his chin and came back and hit me in the nose. The worst part was that on my subsequent toss, my throw hit the other jumper in just about the same place as the first one.

I called my partner in to make the toss.

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Originally Posted by billymac (Post 786901)

cheerleaders really dig officials. This happens to me all the time.

ha! +1