Best Test Question Ever

[Adam]

Originally Posted by HawkeyeCubP

Not to judge, disparage, or seemingly lecture from on high to anyone who has commented on this, but this is completely offensive to me. Would this be an acceptable thing to hear/say/laugh about while officiating a team or player with special needs (which I have)? If not, why is it acceptable otherwise?

Just something to think about.

I don't mind being judged, I'll just say that's why I acknowledged that laughing means I'm a bit insensitive. I honestly don't use the term anymore, but for some reason I laugh when it catches me off guard.

[Forksref]

Originally Posted by johnny d

a few years ago when we were required to confirm with the coach if a player was wearing an arm sleeve for a medical reason a head coaches response to me, and this is a direct quote, was "yeah, he has a medical reason, he is ****ing retarded!"

gotta love the sensitivity

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by HawkeyeCubP

Not to judge, disparage, or seemingly lecture from on high to anyone who has commented on this, but this is completely offensive to me. Would this be an acceptable thing to hear/say/laugh about while officiating a team or player with special needs (which I have)? If not, why is it acceptable otherwise?

Just something to think about.

Context. Not everything needs to be so PC. Too many people get too worked up over the wrong things...there are much bigger things in life to worry about.

[rockyroad]

Originally Posted by HawkeyeCubP

Not to judge, disparage, or seemingly lecture from on high to anyone who has commented on this, but this is completely offensive to me. Would this be an acceptable thing to hear/say/laugh about while officiating a team or player with special needs (which I have)? If not, why is it acceptable otherwise?

Just something to think about.

Isn't most humor "offensive" to someone, somewhere? And isn't that why we laugh at things sometimes - because they are offensive? And that's why I said I would need to return to the locker room (or at least step out into the hallway or something).

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by OKREF

... or a single school color.

I'm not going to quiz the players, coaches, and fans, regarding what the school colors are. If it's a single color, and they're all the same color for all the players, then I'm ruling it a school color, and thus, legal.

Our local high school's football coach purchased red helmets a few years ago. The high school colors are blue and white. The old timers in town had fits about the new helmets. That's all they groused about for months in the local gin joints, and barber shops. Of course, if they didn't have the new red helmets to grouse about, I'm sure that they would have come up with something else to complain about. That's what old timers do. Am I right Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.?