SeaBass23

I officiated in Louisiana and have done it in a few other states.
Louisiana football was a lot of fun with bands playing and some good crowds at big games.
Now that I am getting older it keeps me sharp, staying up to date on the rules, how to enforce, etc. Now we get game video so you can see your mistakes and learn to improve. Plus you should be in decent shape to move around the field and be in the correct position to make a call.
I don’t do it for the money, I make about $2500-3000 a year working 1-2 varsity games a week and a handful of JV games. Usually put that money towards a vacation.
The associations I have worked with have been pretty good groups of guys and the retired officials still come out to our games to shoot the s-.
You need thick skin but that’s part of the challenge when the game gets tight you get to challenge yourself to be in position to make the correct call.

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We were a more homogenous society in the 80s. I'm not talking about skin color

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Cable television was in its early stages, only 3 main tv channels we all watched the same TV, Cheers, Mash, Dallas.

We all watched the same movies, only a couple of NFL games on per week, etc.

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They do this with certain college sports as well, hiring foreign coaches who recruit only foreign players in our state universities. That coach played 4-5 years on an American scholarship.

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These foreign athletes aren’t supposed to get NIL either because they are student visas, somehow they make more than if they played professionally.

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Why was Biden the president that relaxed masking rules in April 2021 and then dropped the TSA / travel requirements in April 2022? If Trump knew the shutdown/Fauci approach was bullshite a year before in April 2020, why did he let the country suffer

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The airline rules were self imposed. Biden then made it a federal mandate. A judge in Florida finally ruled against the Biden administration and everyone realized the mask requirements were stupid and we moved on.

Brownsville is really the only place you can scrap ships in the US. I’m glad to see they are going to start building ships. They likely won’t have crazy environmental regulations that have hurt other US shipyards.

There was a post on here a couple of months ago about a record exec who was taken to a shady meeting where they were told to promote gangster rap.

Go to an ophthalmologist if it doesn’t get better soon. I had one that kept getting worse and the initial antibiotics didn’t work.

It seemed like 80% of the ads I saw and heard were for the Yes vote. Barack Obama had an ad before every YouTube video.

The No side came on a little late. There were a lot of people on the No side that weren’t mobilized to vote.

A second pipeline from Canada to Texas would have been nice as well.

Because if we do get rid of it, our ports and rivers will be filled with Chinese and Indian mariners running into bridges, dumping oil and spying on the US. We won’t have a merchant marine and China will have the upper hand in moving troops and supplies.
The Jones Act is a band aid until the US wakes up and starts building our own ships and trains our young men and women to work at sea.

The election was held during a government shutdown. Lots of time for government workers to get out and vote.
Plus, Sears wasn’t a great candidate at the top of the ticket. She lacked charisma and came off poorly.
Unfortunately, Jay Jones won the attorney general spot ahead of Miyares who was a good candidate and will be a good candidate for governor in 4 years.