I thought there weren't any referees in Ultimate Frisbee...I never see any in games up in Seattle.

Parents today seem to be using their children's youth as something to cherish and worship because after they leave high school, their lives are effectively over. Even through college you work hard to get an education you most likely won't use. You get a job, you'll have for awhile then you'll be fired. Or worse you won't get hired and you'll live with your parents for a GOOD long time (some till their 30 or something).

Again pointing out how I'm a soccer referee. Youth games and tournaments and high school is the worst. Parents yell and scream like you're taking their children's lives from them. They threaten and argue and yell at coaches and refs about their little Billy or Lilly and how they're perfect and we're awful people for ruining their games. It's becoming unbearable.

I know an international referee who red carded a mexican player once. The player didn't say anything to him but he and I quote "Looked at me like he was going to kill me." Referees used to be able to stop players from acting like fools. Now they dive and surround the referee and complain constantly, it's just not fun watching the highest levels of the game anymore.

>> ^Payback:

>> ^Quboid:
You don't referee in Scotland, do you?

No shit, in Scotland, it's FOOTBALL.


Good point!

>> ^Quboid:

>> ^Yogi:
>> ^rottenseed:
I would be cautious if the participants are intoxicated. They might not realize you're not the person they were originally fighting and they might get angry that you're stopping them from fighting.>> ^Yogi:
As a referee I can attest, this is the BEST way to get people to stop fighting. Just place yourself between them.


This is true...although in my experience not too many soccer players are intoxicated while playing.

You don't referee in Scotland, do you?


No shit, in Scotland, it's FOOTBALL.

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^rottenseed:
I would be cautious if the participants are intoxicated. They might not realize you're not the person they were originally fighting and they might get angry that you're stopping them from fighting.>> ^Yogi:
As a referee I can attest, this is the BEST way to get people to stop fighting. Just place yourself between them.


This is true...although in my experience not too many soccer players are intoxicated while playing.


You don't referee in Scotland, do you?

>> ^rottenseed:

I would be cautious if the participants are intoxicated. They might not realize you're not the person they were originally fighting and they might get angry that you're stopping them from fighting.>> ^Yogi:
As a referee I can attest, this is the BEST way to get people to stop fighting. Just place yourself between them.



This is true...although in my experience not too many soccer players are intoxicated while playing.

I would be cautious if the participants are intoxicated. They might not realize you're not the person they were originally fighting and they might get angry that you're stopping them from fighting.>> ^Yogi:

As a referee I can attest, this is the BEST way to get people to stop fighting. Just place yourself between them.

>> ^Yogi:

As a referee I can attest, this is the BEST way to get people to stop fighting. Just place yourself between them.


I absolutely 100% agree.

If you jump in the middle and start confronting either person or yelling stop or whatever that makes things worse. Just step in between them and don't do anything or if they confront you just be calm.

Also what kind of chips are those? I smell a marketing campaign!

As a referee I can attest, this is the BEST way to get people to stop fighting. Just place yourself between them.

That's fucking retarded. Unless he ran down the Referee and sodomized him, then absolutely no.

>> ^gorillaman:

>> ^Yogi:
As a referee of child sports, I get to see the delusional thinking of parents about their children constantly.
I find it funny when the rich white kids get scored on 8 times by the poor scrawny mexican kids.

That doesn't sound like a very good attitude for a referee.


What attitude should a referee have? We're all sports fans, and seeing David triumph over Goliath is always fun. Also I didn't say I work hard to ensure that the Mexican kids triumph over the rich white kids.

Also you kinda have to know the history of the game to get what I'm talking about. Soccer is sort of a poor mans sport, which is why many of the Stars of the game have stories of coming from abject poverty.

>> ^Yogi:

As a referee of child sports, I get to see the delusional thinking of parents about their children constantly.
I find it funny when the rich white kids get scored on 8 times by the poor scrawny mexican kids.


Is there anything Mexicans can't do better than Wealthy White Americans?!

Picturing you as a referee scares me. But that probably has something to do with the fact that when I picture you refereeing, I'm still picturing you as Annie holding a gun.
>> ^Yogi:

As a referee of child sports, I get to see the delusional thinking of parents about their children constantly.
I find it funny when the rich white kids get scored on 8 times by the poor scrawny mexican kids.

>> ^Yogi:

As a referee of child sports, I get to see the delusional thinking of parents about their children constantly.
I find it funny when the rich white kids get scored on 8 times by the poor scrawny mexican kids.

That doesn't sound like a very good attitude for a referee.