New Gear Bag needed

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by HLin NC

I've only used it during playoffs as we arrive dressed in the regular season so a regular large athletic bag works fine for me usually.

Arrived dressed??? Really???

[Forksref]

Originally Posted by BktBallRef

Arrived dressed??? Really???

Yes, really. Never worked 9-man at a small school where they park their pickups around the field and there are no bleachers? There is no ticket booth, just the school secretary at the entrance to the grass/dirt parking lot taking the money and offering you a one-page roster for free. I love the atmosphere!

Yes we come dressed except for putting on our shirts since there is no dressing room available. We either stay on the field or go to our car at half-time.

Sure, we don't have a nice dressing room with shower, etc. but we do have the small town football atmosphere. Give me the small schools any day.

[JasonTX]

Originally Posted by Forksref

Yes, really. Never worked 9-man at a small school where they park their pickups around the field and there are no bleachers? There is no ticket booth, just the school secretary at the entrance to the grass/dirt parking lot taking the money and offering you a one-page roster for free. I love the atmosphere!

Yes we come dressed except for putting on our shirts since there is no dressing room available. We either stay on the field or go to our car at half-time.

Sure, we don't have a nice dressing room with shower, etc. but we do have the small town football atmosphere. Give me the small schools any day.

We had a 6 man jr. high team with that setup. They could only afford 2 officials so yep, we'd 2 man crew the game.

[Welpe]

Originally Posted by Forksref

Yes, really. Never worked 9-man at a small school where they park their pickups around the field and there are no bleachers? There is no ticket booth, just the school secretary at the entrance to the grass/dirt parking lot taking the money and offering you a one-page roster for free. I love the atmosphere!

Yes we come dressed except for putting on our shirts since there is no dressing room available. We either stay on the field or go to our car at half-time.

Sure, we don't have a nice dressing room with shower, etc. but we do have the small town football atmosphere. Give me the small schools any day.

Sounds like six man football out in Texas. I had one game out in the sticks where I overheard the following before the game: "Oh hey, let me go get the score board."

Sure enough, the AD parked a pickup near the field with a scoreboard in the bed. The best part of it was when the quarter ended, the truck's horn went off.

[HLin NC]

Arrived dressed??? Really???

When in Rome......

I'm not a fan of it but I've been in this group for 10 + years now and I see no change coming. My guess is that it saves the dressing time so pregame can start later but I've never really been told why.

Some of the facilities the schools give us are sub-standard. One school gives us the ROTC classroom but we share it with ROTC flag corps and the hallway with the cheerleaders. Another wants to put us in the gym way up the hill behind the stadium so we just use the tractor shed next to the field to pre-game. This may have something to do with it also.

With knickers, I wore a pair of black jogging pants over them to keep them clean and put my striped shirt on at the game site. Now I have dispensed with the jogging pants.

NState dressed/(es) on site.

[CT1]

Originally Posted by BktBallRef

Arrived dressed??? Really???

We do that here, too.

There's a practical reason: We're required to be on the field one hour before scheduled kickoff time, which can be no later than 7:00 PM. Allowing for Friday traffic, pregame, and travel time to the meeting site and game site doesn't allow much time to dress for guys who can't get off work until 5:00.

[ChickenOfNC]

Originally Posted by CT1

We do that here, too.

There's a practical reason: We're required to be on the field one hour before scheduled kickoff time, which can be no later than 7:00 PM. Allowing for Friday traffic, pregame, and travel time to the meeting site and game site doesn't allow much time to dress for guys who can't get off work until 5:00.

What the heck do you do for an hour?

[BuckeyeRef]

Originally Posted by ChickenOfNC

What the heck do you do for an hour?

I was wondering the same thing. In Ohio we arrive at the game site 1 1/2 hours before kickoff (usually 5:30), we dress and have pregame, then take the field 30 minutes before kickoff (usually 6:30).

[Texas Aggie]

Can we get back to bag recs, please?