Fed jewelry

[Little Jimmy]

Speaking Fed. I was wondering how your local associations handle the jewelry issue? This year it was barely mentioned but in the past the question was raised about what to do when you see tape/bandaids on an ear. We were told that we could not ask to see under the tape anymore than we could ask a girl to raise her shirt to see if she had a naval piercing. In other words, if the player said her "ears were sore" because she had to take out studs (yes, I heard this explanation last year) that we were to take her at her word. This is a grey area with my association and I'm wondering how others would handle the appearance of tape covered ears on the field.

I ask this now because I have a game comming up where one player has the sore ear answer every game but I know from parents that the earings are still in.