Strangest Call by an Official

First let me say that we have a hard time getting officials nowadays because they are treated so poorly. I've yet to meet any person who wants to do the wrong thing. We need to appreciate that they are willing to give their time for very little money and take more abuse than they should. Do talk trash about the Refs to your players- what are you teaching them when you do that?!

BUT there are times when you just can't believe where their minds are at. Great players/ teams/ coaches don't let it phase them.

The weirdest thing I ever saw was in a game last year when an official gave our head coach a unsportsmanlike penalty because someone IN THE STANDS yelled "hey Ref, YOU SUCK!". The ref walked over to the stands kicked the person out, but proceeded to penalize our team. Now, he was an older brother of one of our players, but how does the ref know that, and what makes him think that penalizing the team is the right thing to do.
I felt like having my wife go over to the other stands and yell "hey Ref, @!$#^^%&*%$##%%# you, you #@%!@^&**ING JERK!" !#$#@%^^&*&^^^& your momma, and @%%##^ your zebra friends!" So that the ref would give us our 15 yards back :-)
We were so far ahead in the game all we could do was laugh, but Illinois rule is that if a coach gets kicked out of a game he can't coach the next week either, and that was our 1st playoff game.

good point on

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hard time getting officials nowadays because they are treated so poorly.

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One time, while watching our Freshmen play....near the end of the game there were multiple fouls on our Frosh. squad to be accrued on the subsequent kickoff (their team just scored). They added 30 yards to the kickoff location, so the other team was kicking off from OUR 30 yard line! See the field position, they rightly opted to squib it to pin our guys deep. Well the ball ended up out of bounds, and the refs spotted it at the 35 yard line!

needless to say, though...it was too late and too far gone in the game to make a difference.

A few years ago, we ran a play in which the slot receiver ran a chair route (up-out-up). After running the "out" part of the route, the DB held the receiver as the reciever made his cut to run the last "up" part of the route.

The hold was as clear as day. The official didn't throw a flag, though. When our HC argued the call, the official claimed that "there was no holding because the receiver made a double move", whatever the heck that means. We were dumbfounded! Alot of officials don't like working our games because they know that they will be running their butts off.

In my neck of the woods, there are a lot of coaches who would like to see the forward pass outlawed and the only allowable plays would be runs between the tackles!

"CLIPPING ON THE BALL CARRIER" - as the defender spun out oif a block - our ball carrier ran up his back going into the end zone. They ACTUALLY called "clipping on the ball-carrier"!!!

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Originally posted by: saintrad
How in the world so you clip as a ballcarrier? Reminds me of that Motel 6 commercial with the thick glassed refe talking about seeing everything as he pours the sugar on the floor missing his cup.

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The guy who is responsible for assigning officials in Northwestern Illinois is a spitting image of that guy.

I guess I missed the one-point safety in the A&M game. How did that happen?

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Originally posted by: comet
I guess I missed the one-point safety in the A&M game. How did that happen?

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Yes I had no idea there was a one-point safety rule. What is that about?

Will someone please explain a 1 point safety rule as I am not familiar with it at all.

Coach Easton

UNBELEIVABLE, HOW SOME OF THESE GUYS LACK IN TRAINING. SOME ARE REALLY GOOD, BUT SOME ARE JUST FLAT A JOKE!!! YOU BUST YOUR BUTT ALL WEEK LONG, ONLY TO HAVE SOME CREW LIKE THESE GUYS
BLOW THE GAME FOR YOU. TRUE, THEY HAVE A TOUGH JOB, BUT SO DO WE! I KNOW MY JOB AND HAVE ALWAYS FELT LIKE THEY SHOULD KNOW THEIRS. I HAVE NEVER BELIEVED THAT ANYONE REALLY STARTS OUT THE GAME WANTING TO BE A BAD OFFICIAL, THEY SIMPLY LACK THE TRAINING AND COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF THE RULES, WHICH IS A PRIME REQUISITE TO ME AS THAT IS THEIR REASON FOR BEING ON THE FIELD TO BEGIN WITH!

COACH EASTON

The ref that tossed the flag was totally wrong in his actions. However, I congratulate the side judge as what you said IS VERY MUCH UNSPORTSMAN LIKE CONDUCT and certainly not setting anything but the poorest example for your players. Just my opinion as always. Nothing personal meant by it, coach.

Coach Easton

Coach Juarez,

I should have never voiced my opinion. Please accept my apology as this is not the place. In relation to my coaching for the past 40 years, I have been an ordained minister for 30 years and the taking of the Lord's name in vain is a very serious matter to me. Please just forgive me if you will.

Coach Easton

Coach :
Please dont miss understand what I am saying in the post. This man too was a religious man and allowed his emotions to get to him, I ment no disrespect, to him or to anyone! I enjoy reading your post's sorry for the misunderstanding.

I guess Tiger and I aren't the only one's who don't know the one-point safety rule? Anyone care to enlighten all of us?

Champ, that's really a bad call on the officials part. Really bad.