Too Bad

[Patsfan2431]

Did a 8th grade game yesterday which pitted cross town rivals against each other for the last remaining playoff spot in the league. Long story short, i was the line judge and was ridden all game by the home team (they lost 26-12 and it wasn't close at any juncture since the game was 20-0 in the 2nd quarter). These coaches had ZERO rules knowledge and even came up with some good ones (coach rode for five minutes on how horrible we were when we called intentional grounding when he insisted his QB was out of the pocket) Assistant coaches had their smart a$$ comments, and by the end of the 4th quarter, i had 1 UC on home team player, and a home team assistant coach ejected. Last play of the game was a sideline clearing brawl with the home team players inciting it.

Guy comes up to me after the game saying he was in the stands behind me the entire game and that he was planning to catch up with one of the crew and see how he could get get on our officiating board. After the game though, he said he decided to forget it after what he saw i went through.

Its horrible that bad coaches with no class drive out potential officials from even joining a board.

Sorry, just needed to get that out there, although i feel no better.