Tuning Them Out

[bainsey]

I'm watching the end of a tournament game, standing next to a member of the local media. A few of the losing team's fans are still riding the officials, saying things that only expose their stupidity.

The guy next to me looks their way, grins, shakes his head, and says to me, "How DO you tune them out?"

I gave him my answer. Let's hear yours. I may just send him a link to this thread.

[stiffler3492]

Not sure I tune them out, per se, but I do find myself chuckling to myself when I hear them say something stupid.

[BktBallRef]

I remind myself how ignorant they are, having never read a rule book, gaining their rules knowledge from the talking heads on TV.

[jTheUmp]

1) I try to estimate what score the complainer would get on the NFHS rules test. Usually, the number is somewhere in the teens or low 20s.

2) I tell myself "They're not yelling at me, they're yelling at my shirt"

[Rich]

Originally Posted by BktBallRef

I remind myself how ignorant they are, having never read a rule book, gaining their rules knowledge from the talking heads on TV.

I secretly get great pleasure in knowing that me ignoring them is probably riling them up even more.

(Just kidding, I only feel that way for a couple of coaches in the area. )

[Mark Padgett]

If he had asked me that, I would have replied, "I'm sorry. Did you say something?"

[Camron Rust]

I had one of these situations this week...funny thing is, the two claims being yelled by from the stands were contradictory....

Fast break, trailing defender. Shooter floats the shot up softly leaving the defender time to get to it. About the time the defender is getting to the ball, he crushes the shooter in front of him (heavy body contact...so much it slammed the shooter into the nearby wall such that he didn't get up for a couple of minutes) and blocks the shot off the board (not that it matters in under NFHS but it was before the ball hit the board).

From the stands, I hear
"intentional, intentional, he had two hands in his back".
and
"goaltending, count it, he hit it off the board".

I'm still trying to figure out where the defender's third arm came from to be able to block a shot off the backboard AND, at the same time, shove the shooter in the back with two hands.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

The two claims being yelled by from the stands were contradictory.

Do they have to be contradictory? What if you had a real intentional foul followed by a real goaltending call?