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Offline FLAHL

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Sign in the coach's office
« on: September 03, 2014, 10:54:26 AM »
Our dressing room last Friday night was the head coach's office.  He had a sign on his wall that said "If at first you don't succeed, try doing it the way your coach told you to do it."

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Re: Sign in the coach's office
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2014, 01:24:18 PM »
If the coach can take a joke, you may wish to post a handwritten sign next to it reading :

     " If a first you don't win an argument with the ref, try becoming one :) :)"

If the coach can't take a joke....just leave some half-eaten  sNiCkErS in his chair. :) :)

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Re: Sign in the coach's office
« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2014, 01:50:11 PM »
If you knew our U, you'd know there's no such thing as a half-eaten  sNiCkErS

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Re: Sign in the coach's office
« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2014, 04:41:07 PM »
In our dressing room there was a sign that read "Official Official's Eye Test" which had a eye test chart below it. I didn't think it was very funny.

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Re: Sign in the coach's office
« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2014, 06:36:08 PM »
In our dressing room there was a sign that read "Official Official's Eye Test" which had a eye test chart below it. I didn't think it was very funny.
I do. We need to stop taking ourselves so seriously. A little humor makes life bearable at times. Since I started having to wear glasses because I can't read without them, I often joke about it. Still 20/20 for far sight but can't read my game card.

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Re: Sign in the coach's office
« Reply #5 on: September 03, 2014, 09:30:36 PM »
Thirty years ago I was working a women's college basketball game which featured an appearance by the San Diego Chicken. I'm standing under the basket during a timeout and the Chicken comes out with the eye chart.

Me: "I guess I'm supposed to go along with this."
Chicken: "You will if you know what's good for you."

I still have the picture that appeared in the next morning's paper and it is one of my prized possessions. My only regret is I didn't get an autograph.
"Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good."
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Re: Sign in the coach's office
« Reply #6 on: September 03, 2014, 10:31:47 PM »
About 15 years ago, as a HL I had Bill Murray next to me during the 2nd half of a HS prep game.  It got to be a 5 possession game late in the 4th quarter and he began to clown around for the visiting (and victorious) team parents.  I was going to be his foil and really didn't have a say in the matter.  It was a hot day so he toweled me down like a fighter, made jokes about me going to Belmont to ride after the game (knickers era), etc.  Afterward he signed an autograph for my two girls.

Two years later I get the same game and am on the same sideline.  He is again there, but this time the game is closer.  He respected the athletes and remained a quiet spectator.