ODD Sayings

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

The "senior" official must have been a soccer official.

MTD, Sr.

With magic spray.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap

With magic spray.

In the old days, that would be a magic sponge.

[maven]

Originally Posted by Rich

In the old days, that would be a magic sponge.

I thought those were taken off the market for failure to prevent.

[rsl]

I'm having a normal game, neither coach causing problems. Near the end of the second quarter one coach approaches me with a serious look.

"In the first quarter we were ahead on the foul count 7 to 2. Now it is tied at 8 to 8. Why are all the calls going their way?"

Really, coach? I had a hard time not laughing.

[just another ref]

Originally Posted by rsl

"In the first quarter we were ahead on the foul count 7 to 2. Now it is tied at 8 to 8. Why are all the calls going their way?"

"The other coach pointed out the discrepancy and we realized that wasn't fair, so we evened it up. It's what we do."

[bainsey]

Had one particular coach offer me some notable ones today. Here's my favorite.

A-1 is dribbling in the frontcourt, defended by B-2. B-2 taps the ball, which A-1 regains, but his dribble comes down onto the division line. Tweet, backcourt.

Coach is incredulous, so I give him a brief explanation.

Coach replies, "It was a 50-50 ball!"

That one stuns me so much, the first thing that came to my mind was something I posted to this forum this week, and I wound up saying it.

"This isn't soccer, Coach!"

[Camron Rust]

A new one tonight....

3:30 remaining in the 3rd quarter. I'm by the visiting coach who starts complaining that he wants us to call the same thing fouls against the home team that we were calling against his team. Not really that usual of a statement except for the fact that to that point in the game we had called his team for a grand total of 3 fouls....yes 3 fouls in over 20 minutes of play (the home team had 5 for the whole game at that point).

[bainsey]

I just caught this...

Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap

With magic spray.

Oh yeah?! I'll have you know, sir, I ordered some of that magic spray ("Spuni") for me and my assigner this year. That stuff was hard to find. The vendor was in Brazil, there was nothing on his website about shipping to the states, so I had to use translate.google.com several times to get pricing on foreign shipping.

It was worth it. The crowd reaction I got when I first used the stuff -- in Howland -- was priceless.