Share your funny quotes!!

[rwest]

"I'm going to become a ref when I go blind."

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by rwest

"I'm going to become a ref when I go blind."

Now that's funny.

[Bad Zebra]

Originally Posted by rwest

"I'm going to become a ref when I go blind."

...or the variation (actually said to me by a player's grandmother during a wreck game) "When I get old and I can't see...i'm gonna be a Referee" .

[grunewar]

BV. I'm new T far side of court. B has backcourt pressure. A gets the ball up court and while doing so A1 makes a pass to A2 who is straddling the Division Line. A2 tosses it back to A1 in the backcourt who dribbles into the frontcourt. B Coach yells "BACKCOURT! BACKCOURT!" Play continues.

A few minutes later as I'm getting B out of their huddle after a TO, I tell the coach A2 was clearly straddling the line.

Coaches reply, "Figured as much, I really couldn't tell from here."

Me, and half-jokingly, "So, why did you yell it?!"

Coach, "That's what I'm supposed to do, isn't it?"

Made me chuckle. Good guy. They won by a lot going away.....so, he was in a good mood!

[de la hoops]

Originally Posted by Bad Zebra

...or the variation (actually said to me by a player's grandmother during a wreck game) "When I get old and I can't see...i'm gonna be a Referee" .

When I was in HS 3 or 4 of us in the front row of the student section would wear the stripes and joke with (and rag on) the officials. During the girls state championship game one year the chant of the day was "I'm blind, I'm deaf, I wanna be a ref."

I still hold a special place in my heart for loud and idiotic student sections.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by de la hoops

I still hold a special place in my heart for loud and idiotic student sections.

Back when I was in high school (Class of 1971) our student section's favorite idiotic chant to the offcials was, "The ref brought his lunch. The ref brought his lunch. Eat it ref. Eat it".

[Brad]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Back when I was in high school (Class of 1971) our student section's favorite idiotic chant to the offcials was, "The ref brought his lunch. The ref brought his lunch. Eat it ref. Eat it".

That's great!

There's also always: Nuts and bolts! Nuts and bolts! WE!! GOT!! SCREWED!!!!"

[Wisscott]

There is always the oldie but goodie from the student section, "Elevator, elevator, we got the shaft!"

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Wisscott

There is always the oldie but goodie from the student section, "Elevator, elevator, we got the shaft!"

I've always been fond of "We got a rope, we got a tree, all we need is a referee."

And I guarantee someone here will find this unfunny or offensive.

[Welpe]

I had a girl's freshman game this season where I called a free throw violation on a visiting team player for disconcerting the shooter. The visiting team coach did not like this call because he said his player is allowed to communicate with her team. I said sure as long as she doesn't disconcert the shooter. He responds with you need to read the rule book. This was the cherry on top of a lot of complaining from him so I whacked him.

While we're getting ready to administer the throw in, I hear a mom from the visiting team yell out in her best mom voice "Come on ref! Two wrongs don't make a right!"

That got a laugh out of me, which I think annoyed her even more.

[Brad]

I stand corrected. I will now direct my attention to how horrible this rule is.

[Scuba_ref]

Originally Posted by Brad

I stand corrected. I will now direct my attention to how horrible this rule is.

That's not a funny quote!

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Scuba_ref

That's not a funny quote!

Are you accusing Brad of hijacking the thread?

[Duffman]

Last game of the season two years ago. It's 1A GV. Team A is 0-18, team B is 1-17 (guess where the 1 came from). The basketball is just awful, and to make matters worse we are working it two man because my partner seriously rolled his ankle in the JV game and couldn't officiate.

There is a group of 8-10 home fans positioned op bench at the mid court stripe one of which has decided he's going to be our 3rd official and call the game with us. He's calling out every foul and violation. He's not belligerent, just really helpful. He's also doing that thing where he's critiquing our officiating to other fans when we have dead balls near where he is sitting.

The end of 1st half ends with a buzzer beater attempt by the home team that I correctly waived off. Coming out for the 2nd half I know we are going to hear it. We walk over to our spot and I gave him the "whew" face and said "that last shot was close". He said "ohhh I didn't see it". I said "I'm surprised, you've seen everything else tonight".

Everyone's face (including my partner) just goes blank for a second, then all his friends bust out laughing. His wife tells me he won't shut up at home either.

Didn't hear a peep the rest of the night.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Brad

I stand corrected. I will now direct my attention to how horrible this rule is.

I agree -- I simply make sure that a kid changing his jersey (we had one blood incident) is reminded to go to the locker room to change. I also remind the coach.

I'd simply turn my back, but that might not go over so well with others.