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A Little Power is A Dangerous Thing: High School Football Officials Face Discipline for Charity Support

By Eric Lipman

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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Unless you live in a shack in the woods, you've probably figured this out by now. Supermarket checkout workers are asking if you want to donate a dollar, and there's pink everywhere, from the Empire State Building to fleets of 18-wheelers. One of the biggest supporters of breast cancer awareness has been the National Football League, with players, coaches, officials and, yes, cheerleaders, wearing various and sundry pink items to show their support. So one would think that, if a bunch of high school football officials in Washington State wanted to get in on the philanthropy, using pink whistles during their games last Friday night and donating their pay to the Susan G. Komen Foundation, it would be a pretty run-of-the-mill feel-good story. One would, incredibly, be wrong. 140 of the officials used the pink whistles over the weekend and, as such, are in trouble with the Washington Officials Association. Todd Stordahl, head of the association, said that the refs had not asked permission to deviate from the standard equipment, and suggested those who participated might be prohibited from working in playoff games. He spouted off something about violating the rules and setting bad...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on October 25, 2010 (boomark / email).