My ref story is more of a rant. Most of the reidsville posters have heard me say this. Some of you who visited reidsville May have experienced my gripe.
Reidsville PA guy is a former official. He knows all these old guys. For some reason, he feels the need to announce their names before the game. And he usually adds in a little suck up to his buddies by saying things like......and on the white hat, Joe Schmoe, one of the finest officials in the state. I expressed my view to him once years ago but it fell on deaf ears. I really have two problems with this....
1. ABSOLUTELY NO ONE PAID TO SEE THEM OR CARES WHAT THEIR NAMES MAY BE.
2. When everyone on the other side of the field hears this nonsense, you have planted the seed of ‘home cookin’ In the back of their heads. Generally by looking at the stats, there has never been any home cookin at reidsville, but it just irks me that the seed gets planted. I know if I was on the other side of the field, I’d be thinking home cookin as soon as the first flag flies.
Did I mention that no one paid to see the refs?