I can’t speak for how popular WWE is overall, but my older daughter (college junior) and a bunch of her friends have fallen in love with WWE and watch it regularly together (over Discord. Getting together in person would be so 1999).
In recent weeks, love of WWE has been a bonding topic for her and a surprisingly large number of folks at her intership and with some local kids. And, while chatting about various things, a STAB coach brought it up completely out of the blue as a beloved aspect of her childhood.
As I write this, it occurs to me that a large % of these folks are women/girls of various ages. Not 100%, but a lot. Might just be a coincidence driven by my older daughter, though.
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As I always reference my refereeing… it’s like when fans yell at you for stuff for they don’t understand the rules. If they understood the rules… they would be fine and not yell.
I worked the line of a game a few weeks ago and did not call an offside the fans thought I should call. I was harrassed the rest of the game because the parents thought they knew the rules better than I did.
The irony… one of the players on the team that was “agrieved” plays with my son on his travel soccer team. His dad was complaining at practice on the call and told me the linesman didn’t know the rules. I told him the linesman definitely knew the rules because I was the linesman.
He then proceeded to tell me I got the call wrong and he had proof as he got it on video. I told him to show it to me… explained the rule and how the player who scored was onside while the player who was offside was not influencing the play… and then the mf’er told me… “yeah… I still don’t think that was the correct call.”
I hate parents of players who are ignorant to the rules.
I actually have a play design where I have one of my non attackers get ahead in an offsides position and then have a couple of fast kids overlap on through balls …. I rarely use it though because I can’t trust the ARs to get it right - I usually save it for the tournament when we have better officiating.
I hate to break it to you… the center referees are normally better in tournaments… but the ARs are still 13 year old kids most of the time.
Nah - I’m talking about 15U where they aren’t allowed… but my 14 year old boys who ref at AR are typically better than most of the adults who ref… at least they are players who understand the game.
Had a kid correctly give the center information that a ball didn’t go in after a goal
Was awarded last week and also had an adult who tried to tell me it’s still offside if the opponent makes an intentional back pass…
Give me the players anyway.
What is funny… Also is our 10U league is officiated one man all year and then goes to two person for the tournament so the players have to be trained to not be offside all season even though it’s never called until the tournament.
This is standard… in Virginia U10 is singleman center for regular season. Tournaments it changes to 3-man with linesman.
Also… are your teams in rec? If so… those are where officials are sent to learn… so some of the adults in the center are learning just as much as the kids. In central Virginia… the more experienced referees are doing the travel and scholastic games. I’m assuming it is the same in basketball.
Yeah - we have a lot of crossover between rec and club officials / same center ref did our 15U rec game on Friday and 14U Club game on Sunday afternoon - both games ended with a made penalty shot as the last play -
What are the odds?
First one earned us a 1-1 tie (we were down 1-0) and the 2nd one earned us a dramatic 2-1 victory!!! Score was 1-1 before that.
As a soccer parent who was always polite to referees (even when they frequently got it wrong), I got very frustrated by opposing fans who did not understand the rules and would get on the CRs and ARs. I wanted to print a whole bunch of little tiny rulebooks and hand them to complaining parents who wouldn’t shut up. Like “read this, then heckle. Or better yet, don’t, but if you’re going to complain, at least know the freaking rules.”
The other parents on my kids’ teams used to get annoyed at me when I didn’t reflexively complain, but I didn’t. Much.
