Alright, so technically, I've been officiating some basketball in recent weeks - youth and junior high girls. A couple of nights, though, I was flipping through the channels on the television, and Nebraska was playing UC Riverside. Initially, I thought it was an exhibition game, which wasn't a bad thing, but then I flipped to ESPN, and Duke was playing Kansas.
I thought to myself, "Why would ESPN being running past games in prime-time, but then I remembered commercials earlier in the week advertising for this championship night at Madison Square Garden. And then it hit me! BASKETBALL IS HERE!
I'm sure in a previous post I have mentioned my passion for the game, and in that post, I probably explained that I really don't know why I have such an intense love for the game. I'm guessing if I did a psychological analysis of my childhood and all the influences on the planet that intervened at particular moments I might be able to postulate some hypothesis (yes, trying to sound scientific there).
But forget the postulations and analyses, I just want to watch it, be around it, officiate it, talk about it, play it. (And I really, really wish I could play, but I'm afraid of my knee and my weight.) It's HERE; it's HERE; it's HERE! And now that it is here, this is really my last weekend of much downtime. After this weekend...pending snow days...I won't go two days in a row without officiating somewhere at some level until late February. And there will be times when I'm out there in officiatingville that I will begin to get road-weary, but for now, I'm eager to get it started.
So let it all begin!
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