Matski: Hey! You forget the one of the basic reason there are Refs on the field - Safety & Liability...you know, the reason you fill out those funny little waivers that say that the field isn't responsible if you get hurt, yet if the field didn't have refs, their insurance premium would either be unobtainable or sky high. The ref is there to not only judge the game, but to protect the players AND the field owner.
That said, since I'm klutzy and end up falling down and flopping about quite frequently, when my mask comes off, I try to put it back on right away more so that the refs don't notice rather than for protection...usually I kinda already know if I need to just bury my face in the grass/sand/mud/cow piss and wait for the welting to stop, or if I'm still in the game and need to readjust my glasses right away so I can start shooting (I ALWAYS loose a nose pad when my glasses come off and then my vision is a little cockeyed for the rest of the day...one time my glasses even flipped around and the arms even crossed themselves so that the outside of the lenses were pressed up against my eyelids). I'm actually thinking of adding a strap that goes over the TOP of my head 'cause my goggles usually come off downward, in reaction to my body violently changing direction due to impact with the ground. The last time it happened in a tourney was at the Dec. Pan Am LV, on the JT field. My first bunker was on the 50 behind the tall yellow bunker on the show side of the line of bunkers at the 50...yes, I slid UNDER the bunker as I came in (hey, I knew the grass was slick but I was trying to shoot the guy going for the high ground on the show side), then I got the call telling me where my mirror was (he made the mistake of going for the black bunker line) so I got up and tripped over the the anchor loops and shot him once in the back as I fell and bounced off the other yellow bunker bounced off of that, back into my original bunker and fell half in the crack between the black an yellow bunker as my mask came off...I knew I was getting tatooed as the guy on the high side that I pissed off was getting his revenge so I bent at the waist into a "C" shape and pulled myself back around my bunker, hunkered down and shoved my mask back onto my face and waited, blind due to my glasses sitting folded inside my mask and waited for the ref to tell me if I got lucky and they were all bouncers...they weren't but I was happy 'cause the ref watching the other player pulled him (and one other) before he started laughing at my bouncing and flopping around
One of my back players said that he knew that I went 'cause the two tall bunkers started vibrating violently and then alot of yelling and screaming started happening...LOL why is it that there's always alot of yelling and screaming around me? Even when I'm just tucking in and letting them shoot at me, people seem to do alot of yelling and screaming
LOL especially when my first bunker is on THEIR 40 and 10 yards away from an occupied bunker
. Heh, heh, just a short, overweight (80 stone anyone?, LOL) wannabe frontman doing his job
Ray "just another day at the office" N.