Reverend Ref +

WHAT WAS I THINKING???

I was sleepy last night. For whatever reason, my body was telling me to go to bed. So I checked the score of the game (Dallas at Philly), saw that it was about midway into the 4th quarter and that Philly was up 20-7. Got enough information to learn that Dallas hadn't been doing anything all night except letting the Philly defense hammer away at Bledsoe.

So I went to bed. WHAT WAS I THINKING???

Woke up to SportsCenter only to find out that Dallas scored 14 points in 21 seconds with about 2 minutes left to win the game. I hate it when I don't follow my own rules about watching a game to the very end.

Wes asked, "So . . . How was your season?"

My first season as a ref in Montana was . . . short. High school football is a short season anyway, it only runs from Sept through October. What made this season shorter than any other season, though, was the number of games I worked -- or lack thereof.

In Spokane, we worked at least one game every day of the week (but I never worked Sundays, so almost everyday), and sometimes two games. In one week, then, I could theoretically work 10 games. So, in an eight week period, I could work 80 games.

The group I work through now handles only four schools. I did something like three games a week; sometimes less. I worked a total of five varsity games. This will take some getting used to.

But it went fine. I didn't make any glaring errors, and nobody chased me off the field, so I'd say the season was a success.