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Ralph Damren:

--- Quote from: ncwingman on January 26, 2022, 09:00:28 AM ---In my early peewee days, I once got to a field and realized I forgot my hat as well. Fortunately, the peewee administrator was also a high school official and always had his gear in his car (I mean... all of it... every shirt, hat, pair of shoes, flag, he'd ever used in his career).

What was awkward is that he was a rather large man, and I am... not. I thought they only made those hats in two sizes - smaller and larger. He had a third size that shouldn't be humanly possible.

But I technically had a hat on my head for that game and never forgot it again.

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Every mistake is a learning experience and a mistake that you'll won't make again.  :)

BIG UMP:
I can add to this.
1996 working the 5A State Championship we were all dressed and getting ready to take a picture.  My R starts looking for his hat, no where to be found.  He's cussing, snorting and finally an old friend on the chain crew busted out laughing.  He'd seen Jerry's hat fall off the bench, in the dressing room, picked it up and hid it in the showers. Jerry made the chain crew go out with us that night and James had to buy the first round.

Jerry did continue to cuss and snort the first quarter, then he started smiling about it.

TO go on, after the game my 10 year old son went to unlock the van, we had all ridden in.  It was December and of course cold, the tailgaters next to the van told Franklin come into their tent to stay warm.  He did, first we couldn't find him then we realized the doors were locked with the engine running.  Few minutes later I remembered I had a door key in my wallet. 

MEMORIES!

toma:
The crew and I were inside the school getting dressed for our varsity game and our U, Norm a 6'6" giant of a man takes off is socks and his toe nails were Blue. i mean bright Blue. After the laughter died down, he told us what had happen. He fell asleep and his daughter painted his toes. Of course we still to this day don't believe him.
I call our assigner and told him we had a problem. I got to make a switch got to bring our clock operator on to the field because there was something wrong with Norm His toe nails are blue. A scream from the phone "What is he ok. Is he breathing. Than he heard all of us laughing.
Well we now call Norm Blue Toes .     

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