Ah, the sights and sounds of summer football! The hot, shining sun, the warm wind through the trees, the “clap” of pad-on-pad contact, the bitching about officiating…
Come to think of it, that last part is also common in the fall. At every level I attend, in fact. It’s not unique to home fans, of course, and is consistent at every game I attend.
Yesterday, someone shouted that the Myers/Huronia game was a good one until the refs started playing for Myers. In the recent past, I overheard a comment to the effect that a certain official gives the Cumberland Panthers a hard time.
Luckily, there’s a simple solution available for those who feel that the officials for amateur football are all biased and/or incompetent and/or, as one gentleman at a high school game referred to them, assholes (and they ejected him! Can you believe the nerve of these guys??!).
Join up and show us all how it should be done. No doubt that regardless of the fact that your kid plays for one of the teams on the field, you are entirely impartial in your assessment of the outcome of a play. Those damned zebras must be the ones with the tilted view of the game, not you.
This is evidenced by they fact that they totally botch calls that you would get right. Hell, you’re way further than they are and you can see things they don’t. The different angle surely is a non-factor; how can they miss some of the obvious holding against your son’s team?
This nonsense must be stopped. So, please, go “earn your stripes” and put an end to the injustice. After all, if it wasn’t for that one ref that is biased against Cumberland, for example, the OVFL senior Panthers would be…huh…well, I guess they’d still be undefeated. But they might have won their games by more!
The EOTFOA is always looking for people to join, so much so that apparently they have to settle for the criminals they currently have. Go help clean up that mess. The integrity of the game depends on it!