Pushed by a referee; what recourse do I have?

if you're a yard off the field, that's too close by rule and for your own safety, especially with your eye stuck in a camera. you didn't see him coming so you have no clue really what happened.

my guess is that the guy didn't "shove you," but was trying to watch the play, didn't see you until it was too late and merely ran into you or was about to run into you and and "shoved off" with his hands to avoid a worse collision. and if you were too close to the field and in the way of a ref trying to keep up with the play, you effing deserved to get yelled at. the ref shouldn't have to worry about running over a media member who's in the wrong place

as for the talk of complaining to the league, the guy's boss or the state association, on what freaking grounds? sounds to me like you were in the wrong, not the ref.

 

I doubt he would'nt have done it if I was a woman or if I was a student. Then, he proceeded to yell at me to get behind the numbers as he ran past me again. I yelled back, telling him I was with the press, and that he better not push me again. But I doubt he could hear. I was livid.
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I love, love, LOVE how people victimize themselves in their stories. I'm a guy, so I get pushed around. Guess what? I'm a woman and I've been pushed out of the way when I was too close. Waaaah. Get the fuck off the field.

 

Thank you. Is it really that hard to back up 2 or 3 steps to get out of the way?

 

Notice that Huckleberry isn't here to back up his asinine assertion that a lawsuit should be filed. Tool.

 

We've seen a lot of people suddenly stop posting when they get called out this week...

 

Since you were taping it, take another look at the tape and see if you can determine if they guy was clearly in the wrong. If he is, send the tape to his supervisor. If he isn't, learn and move on.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if he just ran into you. I used to shoot on the sidelines and it happened a lot. In that situation you need to be aware of where you are and give him more than a yard.

Then again, some refs are just assholes. I once had a ref tell me the league rules stated I was not allowed between the 20 yard lines. I told him politely that he was wrong. He told me that if he saw me between the 20 yard he would penalize "my" team. (The teams were both on the edge of our viewing area -- I hadn't seen either team play before.) The head coach actually came up and said "don't worry about the penalty -- do what you have to do." Thought that was remarkably classy.

 

I prefer that to the "I'll keep posting as though I'm right" method.

 

And if the play is close to him he will have widened out the view, giving some indication of where he is. Obviously, there may be no way to tell.

 

OK, the push was unfortunate (I've yet to hear that you were injured or mentally scarred for life), but the officials need room to do their job. Not all the officials are highly competent, but most of them are nice guys.

Let it go. Better yet, after the push, simply ask the official where you can and cannot go. Most officials - many of us have had to deal with some exceptions - understand that you have a job to do, as well.