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Referee's can cause a riot faster than anything....

If they calling a game loose, then call a few 'touch' fouls against the team A. But they let team B play rugby without fouls being called. Then team A does the same thing and fouls are called. That causes everybody to get upset at each other..... from the coaches, players and fans.

I have never been to a game where a crowd fight has broke out. And I have been to a lot of basketball games in the 14th, 15th and 16th region.

I've heard some stories from a Johnson Central vs. Lawrence Co. game in the 80's.

I had a front row seat for this one. I sat directly behind where the press table now sits. The thing I remember is that while things were happening throughout the gym one Lawrence County player was flat backed by a Central player in the middle of the center circle at half court. But I'm old and have been to a lot of games according to you. My main memory of an altercation is from a game where I went to watch two teams that I really did not have an interest in. I was sitting in the second row in the visitors section and a fan rode the referee the entire night until enough was enough. The referee blew his whistle to stop play and walked over to the section and hand-motioned that the fan was ejected. As the referee turned to go to the scorers table the fan dived directly over me as I sat in the stands and tackled the referee on the court and lit his head until a cop standing on the base line politely knocked the fan dead out. Believe it or not I went back to that school for another game with a different opponent. The home fans had heckled a player from the other team all night. One fan in particular. Later in the game the player saved a ball from going out of bounds and his momentum carried him out of bounds and up the isle in the home teams pep section. When he came to a stop he was face to face with the heckler and it was on. Guess if you go to enough games you will see anything. And no, I was not at the Paintsville and Prestonsburg classic.
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