Whistle Blower
Yeah, as some of you may know I made it through this crazy weekend, which consisted of me officiating an unreal 23 basketball games in three days. In this article, you are about to hear about this nutty weekend…in abbreviated fashion of course.
5:00 – Never had to wake up this early since I was in high school.
23 games – I have never officiated this many games in a three-day stretch in my life. Oh, it also translates into a sore body and a hefty paycheck.
9 games – Never officiated this many games in one day.
0 for 3 – Yeah, I had the balls to talk to some good-looking girls…but got zero phone numbers because I am too chicken to ask for them (oh, and they were all legal too). On the plus side, they were from southern Minnesota and Iowa…so its no big deal.
10 hours – I don’t think I have slept for this amount of time in awhile…but refereeing 9 games in one day, it made me very tired.
90 degrees – Warm summer weekend = this temperature in the gymnasiums I had to referee in. Yeah, felt like I was in a sauna all weekend long.
9-12 grade – The age level of all the players. It was a high school basketball camp for boys and girls.
4 – Teams were from South Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Iroquois – Anybody else find this school name funny? Almost spells out “Iraq”. I almost wanted to turn the “o” into an “a” and give them the trophy for “Odd School Name”.
Foot Locker – Saw two officials with official FL shirts on as their uniforms. After seeing this, I got a good laugh and then I asked them if they had that new Nike Zoom shoe in stock (insert laugh here).
There you have it…my condensed version of the long weekend and damn, I am glad that it is finally over.
