Bingo!

A classic.....
 

At a Bigshots event in Richmond, Va. over Memorial Day weekend, a player from a team from Baltimore(ever seen "The Wire") that neighborHOOD, came off the bench when one of his players on the court was swinging at a referee.

Well it turned into a HUGE throwdown...cops from VCU and the Richmond PD came into the Siegel Center....

The funniest thing was that one of the kids mother's came down and of course she was saying her kid was not at fault, but she handed the boys child for him to hold while he was being interviewed by the police.....

"Yes officer, when I am not an 18 hoodlum fighting on the basketball court
I am an upstanding father in the community!!!!!"

And in a complete irony, the referee involved in the fight had been assigned to that teams next game!!!! No he didn't work it someone else did...

Was he from Hamsterdam? :D

Funny, I was going to work that tournament for the local assignors but I didn't hear back from them in time...glad I missed it. :cool:

VG summer game the other night. After the first game, I'm standing at the table getting ready for the next game and all of a sudden a fan is standing in front of me. He says something about the travels, and I just look at the door. "I'm going anyway, but you need to...." I cut him off, "You need to go." He started to repeat himself before I cut him off again, "Just go."

So many things I wanted to say.

"Don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry."

Classes begin in the fall come out & get your certification, then YOU sir, can call all the marginal travels you like in YOUR ballgames :D

Too much verbiage :cool:

Real season, I agree... Summer time, I get my point across.

When addressing a fan? The season, it matters not.

I was tempted, but I would have been more likely to use sarcasm.

"So, how long have you officiated?"

Or I could have been sincere,

"Do you really think I need a stranger to come up to me in order to get me to care more about what I'm doing?"

I hear you BNR. I'm a 4-6 nights a week, Jan-Dec kinda guy & I deal with much more BS in the off-season for less pay... so I do what I do.

"Go stage your intervention elsewhere."

I was really tempted to light him up, explaining to him that I was driving 40 miles round trip to work two games for $28, missing another night with my kids. I'm doing these games to get better at what I do.

But, instead, I said, "Just go."

Personally, I'm not discussing much with fans, winter/summer/spring/or fall. In fact folks must detect the a-hole in me b/c it's been about 7-8 years since I've had a fan come up to me after any type of game.

Conversations with fans are always better when they run into you at Applebee's or TGI Friday's :D

I respect your discipline!

I know that feeling! When I was working games while my daughter was a newborn, I was ready to tell a few fans to stuff it mainly because I was running on no sleep. :)