Ejecting Fans

[rockyroad]

Originally Posted by MD Longhorn

You work youth football in Texas - you know exactly the type of scoreboard guy I'm talking about.

His kid, apparently, rushed up the middle into a pile of dust around the 10 yard line. The pile was moving slowly forward, we didn't kill the play. All of a sudden over the PA we hear something like, "What the F&*$!!! Blow the G@$-D#$# play dead you F*$&*# idiots!!!! You're going to get my kid hurt!!!!!"

Kid scored. Parent-with-a-mike got to witness the rest of the game through binoculars from the not-very-close parking lot.

That is priceless!

As for the OP...I have had GM escort a fan out once - in a HS Boys game where I had to warn the cheerleaders to stay off the court. Daddy of one of the cheerleaders decided to come onto court and quarter break to give me a piece of his mind. A simple gesture to GM guy and he had daddy by the arm and basically drug him out the door.

On the other hand, I was working a Women's JuCo game where my partner - a very well established and experienced official in the NW - tossed an entire section of the stands (about 30 people) and refused to let the game continue until they had left!

[BillyMac]

Boys high school varsity. My partner calls an intentional foul on V1, who fouled H2, and he heads to the table to report. H2 gets in V1's face, despite the fact that I'm trying to get between them, and unleashes the "F" word. I toss H2. All of this happens at the division line, far side, across from the table. I'm all alone with the players because my partner is still in the reporting area. Out of the stands, onto the court, comes a parent, who gets right in my face, complaining that I tossed the wrong player. I actually felt that he was going to hit me (he didn't). I go over to H coach and ask him to have the parent removed from the gymnasium (the athletic director wasn't there that night, first time ever that he wasn't there). Head coach of H says that it's not his job to remove parents. I say that we're not playing until the parent is removed (no threat of a forfeit mentioned, we're just going to wait). Assistant coach H gets off the bench and tells me that it isn't my job to have parents removed. I tell him to please sit down, he refuses, and I serve him some tea, just one lump. Head coach finally has parent removed, we get all the fouls reported, shoot all the free throws, and we're just about ready to get under way when V6, on the bench, unleashes the "F" word at a group of H players on the court, so he gets tossed.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by rockyroad

A simple gesture to GM guy and he had daddy by the arm and basically drug him out the door.

That's pretty much all it takes here in my little corner of Connecticut. We have some outstanding athletic directors, faculty managers, and site directors.