Just wondering if anyone out there had a link to a site or a list of quotes that officials have said to players and vis-versa - in the heat of battle.

I have heard of a old time referee that was FIBA qualified and had an answer to every single smart-*** comment a player said. They say he wrote them all down so he could remember them at a later date.

Does anyone know where i could find a list like this. I've exhausted google and other sites but haven't found muchh at all.

Cheers

I believe it was ex-NBA official Richie Phillips (and someone correct me if I;m wrong on this) who said to a coach who was arguing about a blocked shot/goaltending play said. . . The ball had yet to reach the apex of its parabola towards the goal, therefore, there is no goaltending. I always kinda liked that one. His advice was also to use big words to coaches, because most of them wouldnt understand. (No offense coaches. . . )

Richie Powers was the referee who said it. Richie Phillips was a lawyer and the counsel for the first referees' union in the NBA back in the 70's- the NABR.

[Edited by Jurassic Referee on Apr 22nd, 2003 at 09:15 AM]

Wasn't there a Richie Phillips who was the head of the ML baseball umpires union as well, and got canned?

I think he was the same guy who gave the Yankees that controversial home run when the ba$tard kid reached over the fence and took a routine fly ball away from Baltimore's Tony Tarasco in the playoffs.

Rich Garcia was the ump involved. Jeffrey Maier was not a ba$tard, he came from a very nice family, just a little overactive is all. :)

Richie Phillips was never an umpire. He's an attorney who represented the MLB umpires.

Rich Garcia made the call in the Yankee game.

Now, I'm really confused. I thought Rich Garcia was the lead singer for The Grateful Dead...and dead. ;)

Isaak

Use the search function for this forum. You will get some very interesting threads.

Here is a suggestion...type Dave, or Davisms in the search.:D

It works, at least sometimes!!

No.. that was Andy Garcia..

No, that was Zorro's friend.

No, that was Wild Bill Hickok's friend.

No, that was Jerry Garcia.

Hopefully, you're just kidding omq. Aren't you a Deadhead? :p

Which one makes ice cream up in Vermont?

I think that's Amos and Andy.

man. . . what did I get started. . . . lol Thanks for the correction Jurrasic

Don't blame yourself. Now that the season is over, we try to find amusement in more and more inane ways.

You mean Rockyroad was the lead singer for the Dead?

Who knew...

And Bill Walton is the drummer. And he's a TTRRREEEE-MMEEENNDDOOOUUUSS performer!!!!!

No. Bullwinkle was the singer. Rocky played guitar.

No! No! No! I was not the lead singer...I was the cute dancer in the mini-skirt and blonde wig...kind of like a fly-girl for the 60's...of course, that was back when I shaved my legs regularly...I was a little gender confused back then!

Well...ahem....isn't that nice...cough cough...not that there's anything wrong with it...anyway thanks for sharing... :)

Okay, you guys are WAY outta control....

http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/jump.gif

Beats the heck outta being a BoSox fan!!

Sounds like the same thing.
<HR>
Go Tigers!

I'm in Florida with the family, haven't seen an American League game in over a week, and can only sporadically check the sports scores. . . and I'm still taking crap from Rocky!!!!

Screw you guys. I'm going home.

And by the way, the Yankees are off to their best start in like 130 years, and the Red Sox are only 3 back.

Chuck

Which is gonna make it really interesting when they fade in September.

Enjoy Florida! :D

Here's one. Coach complaining to my partner about the contact that ids not being called. My partner replies " Coach, if you don't like the contact, maybe you should be coaching volleyball"

Ouch

Go Royals!! As long as we get to play Detroit 13 more times all is good ;)

Boston is 14-7...Seattle is 13-8...maybe I should start thinking of becoming a BoSox fan pretty soon...nahhhh...I'll give the M's a few more weeks!

<u>Note</u>: I did not read this post.

GO CUBS

Hmmmm excellent - well i think we all got a little side tracked - but never mind :)

Actually, it was Jerry Garcia. He also made excellent ice cream.

Key word Chuck -- they are "back". This is where they start, and this is where they finish. Gotta luv that word.

back on track
 

Sorry Isaak, check these threads:

http://www.officialforum.com/showthr...?threadid=6079
http://www.officialforum.com/showthr...?threadid=5244
http://www.officialforum.com/showthr...?threadid=3833
http://www.officialforum.com/showthr...?threadid=1333
http://www.officialforum.com/showthr...p?threadid=232

After that last UConn-Tenn game, Tues, Mar 31, It really dropped off pretty badly. But then, that's part of the yearly cycle. We've all been at our Whistles Anonymous meetings for a few weeks now, and we're trying hard to keep the monkey off our backs.

As long as we can talk about baseball, and Cherry Garcia, and the Grateful Dead, no one needs to know about the Honig's catalog under the mattress...

... and if your from Australia and you have hardly any idea of what you ppl were talking about for the last two pages ...

hahahahaha - i don't get any of it - but i still have a crinkle cut smile that reads - "I do not get any of this, but ..."

It is not at all clear to me why MLB continues to allow interleague competition between major and minor league clubs, and count these games in the standings :)

Go Tiger <b>CUBS</b> ! ;)

I met Tramell in the U.P.

In 1984, I was living in the Detroit area and got free admission to Tigers games as an active duty military member. I went to 40 games in 1984, sitting in the left field grandstand about 10 rows back - saw a lot of Trammell and Whitaker from a distance, Willie Herndon up close. One of my best friends stepped in front of me to catch a Trammell home run, and we rushed home to see it on the 11:00 news. Great times. Then they moved us to an ugly corner of right field grandsatnd, and it just wasn't the same.

8-0, 13-1, 35-5, Morris's no hitter, Ernie Harwell calling the games on WJR - Seems so long ago . . . the big 0-9, 0-12 just doesn't have the same magic.