Funniest thing you heard a fan say

[rwest]

I heard a new one the other night during my first varsity game of the season.



"I am going to become a ref when I go blind!"

I thought it was unique. Never heard that before. I've heard references to being blinded but never in that manner. Very creative!

[grunewar]

"Good Call Ref!"

C'mon, where's the credibility?

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by rwest

I heard a new one the other night during my first varsity game of the season.



"I am going to become a ref when I go blind!"

I thought it was unique. Never heard that before. I've heard references to being blinded but never in that manner. Very creative!

My reply would have been: "So, that would be yesterday?"

[billyu2]

"Hey ref! 401k. Think about it."

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

I don't know where to start. But there is one incident that I remember (basically because it happened less than ten years ago, ) well.

The incident happened before Mark, Jr., became a basketball official.

My first game of the year (the year of the incident) was a boys' JrHS (7th/8th grade) DH at School A. Team A was blown out in both games by Team B. The fans of Team A were not very happy with the officiating and they constantly let us know it. Two days later, my second game of the season was another boys' JrHS (7th/8th grade) DH at School C and the visiting school was Team A from two days earlier. After the 7th grade game which Team A won, a couple of fans of Team A told me that my partner and I did a great game and tha the officials who officiated their game two days earlier were the worst officials he had ever seen, .

MTD, Sr.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

I don't know where to start.

Oh, if you try hard, I'll bet you can figure it out.

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

But there is one incident that I remember (basically because it happened less than ten years ago, ) well.

The incident happened before Mark, Jr., became a basketball official.

My first game of the year (the year of the incident) was a boys' JrHS (7th/8th grade) DH at School A. Team A was blown out in both games by Team B. The fans of Team A were not very happy with the officiating and they constantly let us know it. Two days later, my second game of the season was another boys' JrHS (7th/8th grade) DH at School C and the visiting school was Team A from two days earlier. After the 7th grade game which Team A won, a couple of fans of Team A told me that my partner and I did a great game and tha the officials who officiated their game two days earlier were the worst officials he had ever seen, .

MTD, Sr.

See, I knew you could do it.

[Adam]

Sophomore Boys game in Des Moines between two city schools. I had to wear my glasses, and about halfway through the 2nd quarter, I nailed the home team FT shooter for stepping over the line.

Half way up the stands behind me, I heard "Take your glasses off."

[Scratch85]

In a gym that will hold around 3000, we had about 75 attending this game. The opening tip went into a corner of the court where we had a held ball. In an almost silent gym a parent says, "come on ump, call it both ways."

[loners4me]

Girls grade school. Goofball partner wore a blue tooth device and said it was since he was "on call" At halftime a fan approached him and said "hey at least you wont miss a call................

[Freddy]

MS 5/6 grade boys coach's last word before sitting down after receiving a merited T: "That's why you'll always be a middle school ref!"
Very next night, same coach as a fan standing at the doorway just off the endline in his home gym while my partners and I were nailing a conference title game with his school's boys' varisty team playing: "......................................"

[JugglingReferee]

Had a fan stop us after a football game adamant that we missed many horse collar tackles.

After we let her rant for 20 seconds, we asked her what a horse collar tackle was. She didn't have an answer, so she stormed away.

[SmokeEater]

Had a guy yell out to me to "take my glasses off, I was making too many calls"!

[bainsey]

A few years ago, I worked a JV boys tournament.

A-1 is trying to save a ball from going out a bounds. He jumps, gets a hand on the ball, and unintentionally fires a perfect laser right into B-2's egg-sack.

B-2 drops to the floor and cries out in agony. Everyone else freezes, as the ball cruelly takes a few seconds to slowly roll back out of bounds. (In hindsight, I probably could have hit my whistle sooner.) I check on B-2 about ten minutes later, who says he's fine, although still reeling a bit.

Two weeks later, I see School B's varsity coach, and ask him about B-2. He laughs and says he's fine. I ask if anyone recorded the game.

"Oh yeah," the coach says. "His dad runs that part back four or five times every day!"