Video has been making the rounds of a referee who was on the phone while the action was ongoing during a basketball game between North Whidbey Middle School and Oak Harbor Middle School.
He’s been lampooned as the “world’s worst referee,” but I want to say a few things in his defense:
- The school district told Deadspin that the referee was trying to solve a staffing issue at another game, so he probably did have the kids’ interests at heart and was not ordering a pizza.
- He was still waving his arms and acting as if he were paying attention to his job, and isn’t that a valuable lesson to the young players about how the world works?
- I would still take him over the referees we had for a certain football game.
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