Disco Inferno (Trammps) ...
 

Of course I was not being serious. We do not have any names, either real, or fictional, embroidered on our jackets. All we have is our local board affiliation patch.

However, I was being serious about the shiny, satin jacket. It really does look like a jacket from the disco roller skating era. In regard to this fashion faux pas, I am being serious, and you can take that to one of the big monster mega banks.

Color Me Confused In Connecticut ...
 

I've worked games in high schools in one of Connecticut's largest cities, where most parents either walk, or take the bus, to watch their kids play. I've worked games in suburban high schools where the parents park their BMW's outside the gym. I've worked games in rural high schools where they actually park their John Deere tractors in the gymnasium parking lot. Even after working in these various environments over the past thirty-one years, I still have no idea what these posts (above) mean? What am I missing here?

*Sigh* I guess that came out wrong. In my experience (btw I don't yet do HS because I'm not old enough) when I do rec/AAU games in certain neighborhoods (I'm in no way racist. I myself am black) and very rural areas, when I'm watching warm-ups we always have some teens and bums sitting on the bleacher just behind us trying to heckle us pre-game

eg. Hey look its the refs!
Ooh we got a new boy on this one
What's the jackets for? Trying to hide like we don't know who ya'll are?
Who are you, kid? you ain't from around here. They give ya some fancy shirt and whistle and you think you can ref just anywhere?
and etc.
We also have guys who hang out on the corner and try to mess with us or sell us stuff when we show up (we wear our uniforms to games as there are no private changing facilities)

The extremely rich neighborhoods are just as bad, with kids who think they can have whatever they want if 'Daddy buys it'. Then they come screaming and hollering with their parents when a call goes against them.
I think I'll get off my soapbox. I fear that I've started a highly controversial subject here.

I don't trust politicians and corporations either. We are where we are because of them and their greedy selves.

For the record, no one said anything about you being racist. I have been doing this for some time and had no idea what you were talking about as I have worked from the in the cornfields to the concrete jungle.

Peace

Say what? :confused:

They're doing this because you're young and the adults are letting them. I'll never understand why people think that behavior is acceptable.

:)

btdt

We have a number of crew chiefs who hate them, so they stay in the bag.

What ever happened to Annoying Grammar Guy?
 

I think you meant to use the word "hassle".

And when I'm crew chief, that's the first order of business..."Anybody opposed to leaving the jackets in the bag tonight?" If we get caught, it's a small fine for each crew member...but I haven't been caught in 12 seasons.

+1

Most athletics contests have some kind of warm-ups. The black jacket is ours. When we take them off it is the signal that we are ready to go.

Mr. Annoying Grammar Guy frequents facebook during the off-season. Allegedly.

I haven't done any varsity stuff yet, but I'll echo what JRut said. I've never seen Varsity officials without their pregame jackets on.

In my experience, for the underlevel stuff, main gym games get jackets 95% of the time. Maybe a Saturday morning Frosh B game might get the non-jacket treatment. Most back gym games will get the jacket treatment as well, though back gym games are more likely to get the non-jacket treatment.

I think the thing that contributes to the non-jacket treatment is either a doubleheader, or the fact that halftime is so short we won't even worry about heading back to the locker room, so we don't want to have worry about jackets.

Just as you said, we tend to treat varsity night games (prelim, sophomore or whatever you call JV) different than non-varsity night games. Really that is the approach here for the most part.

After all everyone else is out there in a warmup, so why not us? A lot of things we do anyway is ceremonial, so it really does not matter if it is practical at the end of the day.

Peace