A group of high school football officials in Washington state were trying to support breast cancer research while working this week's games, so
they made a pledge to donate all game checks to the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Then, to top off the charitable gesture, they announced they would all
use pink whistles during the games. Now there's a chance those whistles could cost the refs a chance to work state playoff games.
The chair of the WOA, Todd Stordahl, told KING 5 News and MyNorthwest.com he has little choice but to discipline officials who used colored whistles.
He claims that letting them continue without punishment would send the wrong message to student athletes.
"They chose not to ask for permission, not to go the right route," Stordahl told KING 5. "It sends the wrong message to kids that are playing the
game. 'If they broke the rules why can't I do the same.'"
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The boards on Yahoo have tore this guy to shreds... I haven't seen solidarity on a subject there ever like this...
Who does this Stordahl think he is really??
I mean, the heroes of sports can pop on piss tests, can pretty much write the rules... the kids can wear their hair any way, earrings, etc... but if a
ref wants to use a pink whistle for a couple of games to show support for charity, does one really think that a kid will actually notice?
A kid who is into the game? Do kids even really pay attention to the refs, other than to abuse them when they feel a bad call is made?
And the refs of high school sports... they make less than $75 a game. They are regular folks that
do it for the love of the game.
They do it for the kids. Period.
Lay the hell off. They are even donating two of their measly checks from reffing to the Foundation.
Is this "commissioner" mad because nobody licked his *$% first, or because it wasn't his idea??
Sounds like it.
Sorry, but this kind of thing...this really gets me upset.
People all righteous like this, being the "rules" police over inane matters,
saying "it's for the children",
when their own children are 99% of the time a train wreck,
and 99% of the time these people let the "stars" off the hook...
Wonder if he has a clue what cancer in the family is like...
edit on 24-10-2010 by thegoodearth because: spelling