- Had an interesting experience with a CR running one of my son's games this past October (that I never blogged.) He made a call on a foul, and someone on our side yelled "Geez". Or possibly "Jesus". I'm not entirely sure which. So this CR comes over to the parents side and informs us quite loudly "I do not tolerate profanity at my games. One more word and I'll remove all the parents." Now of course *everyone* on my son's team knows I'm a ref (indeed, I often ref just before his game) so *everyone* starts badgering me with questions. "Can he do that?" Yes. "Would you do that?" The use of that term does not meet my definition of Personal, Provocative, and Public. Public certainly - it was loud, but it wasn't Personal and it certainly wasn't Provocative. So I would've let that go. "Have you ever thrown a parent out." Almost, on 3 separate occasions. They certainly received the "you can watch the rest of the game from your car" spiel from me. I cynically suggested we just start shouting "Allah" to see if he would react to that.
Seriously, if someone chooses to use their divine entity's name in vain, it won't offend me. Do others care?
