Getting Killed While Reffing

Ok, reading the title you must think that I mean someone got killed.  No I’m not going down that road.  What I’m talking is my experience at West Delaware, IA this past Thursday.  I’ll start from the beginning.  So, I arrived at the field and I met the AD (athletic director), he was nice and we started talking about timing and track meets and I might have picked up another cross country meet for next fall (YES!!!).  Anyway, I was the head referee for the varsity game (two man crew).  The game was ok three yellow cards.  Ok on the junior varsity game, it was pretty mellow, nothing too much going on.  In the second half the play was moving down toward my end and I stopped moving to let the play go by and a player didn’t see me and knocked me over.  He hit me directly on the knee and it was really painful, I thought it was going to swell up, but it was fine after awhile.  I also landed pretty hard on my head and I head a headache the whole way home (4 hour drive).  I also had a cut on the back of my ear.  It was a great game however, I had a great referee partner who backed me up and we worked great together.  Any way got to write another!

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