It's been forever and a day since my last post, but semi-pro ball will be starting again in February, so there will be plenty of Pigskinref coming your way. The Semi-pro arena has changed quite a bit since last season. More on this as we get closer.
Since the last report, I did work a High School playoff game in the Open Division between the fourth and fifth seeded teams. The Open Division has the big, powerhouse teams. What is relevant is this game did not have the best teams, but has two evenly matched teams. Around here, they pit the team seeded #1 against the #8 team, #2 against #7, etc. Generally, these games with high seeded teams are not evenly matched games, and in my opinion, do not require the best officials. It's these middle seeded games which are typically evenly matched and make me earn my money.
Unfortunately, one team pounded on the other, so there goes my theory. The team that really should have won did not come to play. They lost rather than the other team winning.
I also worked the All-Star game... again. (see 2007 All-Star post, 2006 All-Star post). As with last year, this was a clean game, but a very close contest. Click here to read the game report in the newspaper. It was a good, back and forth game. As it should.
