Best story of your week - 2013

Discussion in 'Referee' started by Dr. Gamera, Jan 1, 2013.

  1. Rufusabc

    Rufusabc Member+

    May 27, 2004
    Goose...a bunch of the games were on espn 3. I watched a final the othr day in the boys u17's.
     
  2. gosellit

    gosellit BigSoccer Supporter

    May 10, 2005
    Correct, the 3 boys and 3 girls finals played at the stadium field were televised on ESPN3.
     
  3. Rufusabc

    Rufusabc Member+

    May 27, 2004
    Pretty good skill level, i must say! Do you know the crew who did that final? It involved a team from Maryland and FC Dallas. I thought they were very good.
     
  4. gosellit

    gosellit BigSoccer Supporter

    May 10, 2005
    All Nationals, Center form Arkansas, AR's from Virginia and Kentucky
     
  5. Rufusabc

    Rufusabc Member+

    May 27, 2004
    Goose...do the kids appreciate the quality of the officiating?
     
  6. DudsBro

    DudsBro Member

    Jan 12, 2010
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    Pun intended? :)
     
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  7. SA14mars

    SA14mars Member+

    Jan 3, 2005
    Dallas
    Club:
    FC Dallas
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Funniest story of my week was finding out I was accepted to the State Referee Clinic then getting a jury summons for the opening day of the clinic. Needless to say I requested a deferral to April (ironically just in time for HS playoffs to start). Best story of my week will hopefully come tomorrow...
     
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  8. gosellit

    gosellit BigSoccer Supporter

    May 10, 2005
    For the most part, yes. Coaches as well.
     
  9. NW Referee

    NW Referee Member

    Jun 25, 2008
    Washington
    Not a UFO but I've stopped play before so we could all watch a hot air balloon pass directly over the field no more than 30 feet up.
     
  10. Dayton Ref

    Dayton Ref Member+

    May 3, 2012
    Houston, TX
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    There is a large field complex right next door to a flight school that does sky diving all Saturday and Sunday. Every now and then, someone will have to cut away and the parachute will come fluttering down on or by the u-little fields.
    And you thought it was had to get them to pay attention in a normal game... there's a dozen people jumping out of a plane over the field.
     
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  11. socal lurker

    socal lurker Member+

    May 30, 2009
    I've done games with the Goodyear blimp going overhead. At one point, I actually paused the game during a stoppage, suggested that everyone wave at the blimp, and then we got back on with the game . . .
     
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  12. aaronriley

    aaronriley Member

    Jul 9, 2011
    Was doing a match last night at a ODP event. There is a shooting range(I think its a private one on a farm) on the other side of the tree line that surrounds the fields. Naturally we can here when someone is shooting while doing games. This had been going on throughout the afternoon and midway through the second half of the night games an explosion occurred. We discussed what it was after and we think someone launched a mortar. Didn't affect the game other than the players stopping for a second to ask "what the f*ck?" and look around.
     
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  13. rkucenski

    rkucenski Member

    Sep 23, 2011
    Flower Mound TX
    Club:
    FC Dallas
    I washed my kit and hung them up. Offseason for two months! Ah....
     
  14. Rufusabc

    Rufusabc Member+

    May 27, 2004
    One of the fields I work at is a National Guard facility. Parachutists are common. Helicopters too. Another field has a model plane flying club and all you hear for hours is that damn humm.
     
  15. socal lurker

    socal lurker Member+

    May 30, 2009
    So did you give them all reds for OFINABUS!! :rolleyes:
     
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  16. usaref

    usaref Member

    Jan 13, 2012
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    EVERY LAST ONE I HOPE!;)
     
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  17. aaronriley

    aaronriley Member

    Jul 9, 2011
    Isn't swearing just after an unexpected, large, ground shaking explosion is covered under Law 18?

    Myself and my AR's included would have been included. Didn't want to write that report if I'm honest.
     
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  18. techguy9707

    techguy9707 Member

    Nov 23, 2011
    Antelope, CA
    I thought it was under the Hane's corollary... or maybe it the Fruit of the Loom...
     
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  19. aaronriley

    aaronriley Member

    Jul 9, 2011
    Could that potentially violate the undershorts color requirements?
     
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  20. usaref

    usaref Member

    Jan 13, 2012
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    My friend, I believe I speak for socal lurker as well when I say that the :rolleyes: and ;) faces denoted our utter sarcasm! In fact I would have questioned your common sense had you decided to discipline anyone!
     
  21. techguy9707

    techguy9707 Member

    Nov 23, 2011
    Antelope, CA
    I guess it would depend on the before and after colors. :)
     
  22. aaronriley

    aaronriley Member

    Jul 9, 2011
    I fully understood. My dry sense of humor is hard to bring across in the written word. I shall try to become a master of the emoticons such as yourself and socal lurker so as not to confuse in the future.
     
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  23. usaref

    usaref Member

    Jan 13, 2012
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    My apologies for my failure to understand then!
     
  24. aaronriley

    aaronriley Member

    Jul 9, 2011
    My fault, didn't cover that in the pregame.
     
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  25. usaref

    usaref Member

    Jan 13, 2012
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    You probably did, it was just 7 months ago at ODP...
     

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