Origin of pulling your whistle out of pocket when you're just about to tip off

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Originally Posted by bob jenkins

+1.

But I do think you should take it out of your pocket in time so that if you do need to straighten it out, you don't delay the start of the game.

Up next: at EXACTLY what time during the introductions do you take off your jacket? Does it depend on whether the announcer alternates teams or doeas all of one team first followed by the other team? (Sorry -- flashing back to an overly detailed pre-game from many years ago)

Ha.....just was thinking about this last week. my rule of thumb is after player intros we take them off, always waiting for R to start first. Had a partner last week, just before intros, unzips and jacket comes off as myself (r) and U1 kept them on.

It was a harbinger of things to come for rest of the night by the way.