Officious pricks that run high school athletics for $500, Alex

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/preps/1488767,CST-NWS-stripe21.article

Team in Illinois high school playoffs assessed opening technical for having too wide a stripe on their unis... after playing in the same gear all season long. They even offered to switch to their road unis, but IHAA director said those were "too colorful." :

Team goes on to lose, by one point.

Egads.

 

Wow. Wow. Wow.

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This.

 

No vengeance is too harsh. Complete egging of the official's house, car, and self sounds about right, followed by the judge dismissing the case when the prick brings the posse up on charges.
Adults suck. I say that months from my 60th birthday.

 

That's something I would expect from the WIAA or the MSHSL.

"too colorful"?

Didn't he really mean "too colored"?

Idiots.

 

The IHSA: Fucking dumbasses for as long as I've ever dealt with them.

 

This just begs so many questions.
Why did no other official make this call during the season?
Why did the school order uniforms that were illegal?
Why does a company make uniforms that are illegal?
Total horseshit to make this call at this point of the season.

 

They should have just waited until they won the state championship and suddenly disqualified them.

 

Nice.

 

Oh, sure. It's all the officials' faults. First we allow them to play in illegal uniforms, they win, and then what? Next thing you know, there's money missing off the dresser and your daughter's knocked up.

I've seen it a hundred times.

 

Don't forget the part where they start selling crack on the side.

Also, what exactly is the genesis of this rule? why was it deemed important that the stripe under the arm could only be 4 inches wide in the first place? absolutely brutal.

 

The title should be "Officious pricks who run high school athletics for $500, Alex"

Just sayin'