When you show up to Referee a High School Summer League- 4 games over 4 hours- and you know the Coachs' favorite thing to holler at their players in Summer League is "Push it!!" Meaning RUN DANG IT!!
Just as you pull the elastic "sleeves" on over your knees, lace up your "Runnin' Ref" shoes and take your first step to loosen up you feel a tweak in your left knee!
And the tweak doesn't go away after stretching.
So you pop down 2 Tylenol- 500 mg each and cross your fingers.
The tweak finally goes away in the 1st quarter of the LAST game........
But that might be because you're so tired you stopped running in the 4th quarter of the 3rd game!
But the last game is the 2 best teams you've had all nite and therefore the best game of the nite.
So now YOU "Push It" to keep up with the kids and give them the game they deserve.
Yep, it WAS a long nite......
And now that I'm home, showered, had some of my favorite Birthday German Chocolate Cake & Vanilla Ice Cream and sitting at the computer typing this missive, that tweak has come back to say "Hello, remember me?"
Better go find my Ref Bag and dig out some more Tylenol to sleep?
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