Help from the Crowd

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Moosie74

Not her in this instance. Would she do that? Absolutely. This person was not known to me.

I think Freddy was indicating that this would be a "good" line to say to the coach (i.e., implying that the fan was the coach's wife).

[RookieDude]

Originally Posted by Moosie74

Not her in this instance. Would she do that? Absolutely. This person was not known to me.

Really? Your wife would yell at the coach in the game you are officiating?

LOL...I tell my wife (the few times she goes) to ignore all the screamers. Although, just last week her friend went with her...and she told me her friend yelled at a fan that was yelling at us.

The fan shut his mouth.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by RookieDude

Really? Your wife would yell at the coach in the game you are officiating?

LOL...I tell my wife (the few times she goes) to ignore all the screamers. Although, just last week her friend went with her...and she told me her friend yelled at a fan that was yelling at us.

The fan shut his mouth.

You're the man. I can't get my own wife to come see any of my games, let alone her friends.

[Welpe]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

You're the man. I can't get my own wife to come see any of my games, let alone her friends.

I'm pretty lucky in that my wife loves going to both my basketball and football games. She hides from the fans though because they drive her nuts too.

[rockyroad]

Saw a different take on this last night. V Girls game...home team fan is going off on officials about one thing after another. Small crowd, so he is heard by everyone in the gym. About the 4th time he starts hollering, the home Coach jumps up and turns to the stands and tells the guy to either knock it off or pack up and leave. Guy sputters for a few seconds, and then the home point guard says 'Dad, just leave. Please? You are embarrassing us."

Guy got up and left the gym. Rest of the home fans started clapping and cheering for the point guard.

Made me feel all warm inside!

[Moosie74]

Originally Posted by RookieDude

Really? Your wife would yell at the coach in the game you are officiating?

LOL...I tell my wife (the few times she goes) to ignore all the screamers. Although, just last week her friend went with her...and she told me her friend yelled at a fan that was yelling at us.

The fan shut his mouth.

My wife will go to my games and sit and watch. Since she'll never react to any of the plays someone will ask who her son or daughter is and she'll say it's the umpire/referee and they usually stop any comments or anything.

Baseball game last year when one team was in red the other in white someone asked her who her son was, she said oh, #18 in blue. Took the fan a moment to figure it out and then they said oh, never mind and got up and left.

[jTheUmp]

My girlfriend has been to a couple of my basketball games so far this year. She also went to one of my football games.

At the football game, she ended up sitting in the same area as most of the home team's parents. Eventually, they asked her which player out there was her son. Her response: "My son isn't out there... my boyfriend is." I'm told there were a few odd looks before she clarified that I was the one wearing the stripes.