Concussion

[26 Year Gap]

I do a handful of MS games each season. Tonight was one of those occasions. V20 commits a foul under the home basket and goes down, hits his head on the floor, shakes it some, is kind of woozy stumbling to his feet, and all the while, my fist is up. I motion for the coach to check on his player, go report the foul, and then tell him what I saw and that I am directing him to leave the game. The coach asks his player if he is okay and then says he is fine to stay in. I tell the coach he is going out of the game and he needs to be cleared before returning. (In FL, this responsibility ultimately ends up with the coach if the player returns. We are to assume the player was cleared for play). The kid comes back into the game a couple of minutes later. At halftime, I wrote and signed a note in the home scorebook as to what happened and when and that I directed the player to leave the game.

Now, if anything happens, the coach has taken the responsibility. He already proved he was a knucklehead.