Here's an interesting question

[WhistlesAndStripes]

Originally Posted by MJT

I'd love it if that happened to my umpire! I would get the tape of that, and we'd watch it every year at our 1st get together.

What a great idea. I was working a game last year as LJ, and I still can't figure out what the hell happened, but the short version is this. Team is lined up to punt. U is positioned 5-6 yards behind the line. Kicker punts the ball, a line drive kick that barely clears the linemen, and smacks the U right in the left thigh. The way he went down, I thought it got him somewhere else.

Originally Posted by Bob M.

REPLY: I may have related this story before. If I did, please chalk it up to another of my "senior moments."

I was the referee at a game in Westfield NJ a number of years ago. Dave Brown (late of the Giants and Arizona Cardinals) was the QB. He threw a pass up the middle that hit my umpire (a hefty older gent) right in the forehead. He immediately fell to the ground as the ball landed incomplete in front of him. I thought he was dead. Brown turned and asked me, "What was that?" I answered, "Assault and battery, I think."

Good one Bob! I like that quick thinking...LOL

[NoTrumpKing]

As an umpire, with some stature, a granite-brain as well, if the try hit ME, the ball wood b ded.

The ball would probably suffer so much insult that it would actually be unplayable.