Kevin Ware

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by gojeremy

Lets take "fair game" out of my question. How do you keep your emotions under control to call the best game possible?

Experience.

It's the same thing we (try to) do every call -- focus on the next one.

Dealing with a player injury is a lot easier than dealing with an emotional T, or concentrating after we think we might have missed a call, etc.

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

Experience.

It's the same thing we (try to) do every call -- focus on the next one.

Dealing with a player injury is a lot easier than dealing with an emotional T, or concentrating after we think we might have missed a call, etc.

+100


I think that everybody will agree with me that a TF, especially against a HC, can really cause your adrenaline to start pumping.

MTD, Sr.

[MD Longhorn]

Everyone here has given good advice. Applying it is the hard part sometimes. I think most of us can deal with college kids or even high school kids having stuff like this happen... we've seen it enough. It sucks, we feel bad for the kid, and we move on.

That said, the two times I have honestly had problem with focus after an injury involved kids. One was a 7th grade football game. Kid on one side grabbed a facemask, twirled a kid from the other team a full 270 degrees and let him fly. Kid was ejected, needless to say. But after a lengthy delay including a Life-Flight helicopter, and also including one of my crewmates throwing up, we all admitted having significant trouble focusing the rest of the game.

We never heard if anything came of that wrt the offending kid. I did the the injured kid a couple of years later and he remembered me. He had quit football but didn't seem to have any after effects.

The other one was a 10U softball game where a pitcher, maskless, took a grounder in the face. I can't even describe it, really - it was horrifying. After a 20 minute delay, we played about 2 more batters before the coach of the injured girl forfeited the game because his kids were so unfocused they were at risk themselves. Partner and I agreed we were having as much trouble focusing as those kids.