Crowd gasps after FCS ref unleashes NSFW halftime hot mic rant
The most important button for a referee during a football game is the on-off switch on his microphone. But in an FCS game on Saturday, the referee forgot about that button as the teams went to the locker room for halftime.
Because of COVID-19-related schedule delays, FCS teams are playing football this spring, and that includes the North Dakota Fighting Hawks and the Southern Illinois Salukis, who squared off on Saturday.
As players left the field, the ref was heard on the public address system very disgruntled and frustrated with his equipment. He vented his frustrations, but he forgot one to turn off his microphone.
As for the game, Tommy Schuster threw three touchdown passes, Otis Weah had 91 yards rushing and a score, and North Dakota beat Southern Illinois, 44-21, in a Missouri Valley Football Conference spring season opener at Grand Forks, N.D., according to the Pantagraph.
North Dakota poured on 21 points in the third quarter to pull away. The defense helped too, with five turnovers that led to 27 of UND’s 44 points. Evan Holm and Sammy Fort came down with interceptions in the second half and a trio of fumbles in the first half helped hold the vaunted Saluki rushing attack to just 90 yards on 35 carries.
Here’s the NSFW audio version:
Ref forgot to turn the mic off 😂 pic.twitter.com/BZOev0ahRP
— Barstool UND (@BarstoolUND) February 20, 2021
That was horrible. He will get in trouble over this.
People are way too sensitive these days. He made a mistake but I’m sorry if his dirty words ruined your day. It’s funny I thought your name implied a military background.. I thought the video was funny.
You lack class and an education, so of course you think it’s funny. I’m a parent and a grandparent, so it’s not funny. I’m not saying to fire him, but there will be a reprimand of some sort. I spent 20 years in the Marines. If a Marine was caught saying something like that in front of children, he would get the same treatment.
I state facts. You pull baseless insults out of thin air like calling someone you don’t know uneducated. Also if there was any kids there they were watching people turn each other’s brains into pudding, I’m sure his words didn’t give them the nightmares they gave you. I don’t speak that way in front of kids, he didn’t mean to, and nothing was harmed except your feelings.
You just keep getting more and more idiotic. Good luck with that. You’ll grow up at some point.
Because it is classless, shows a lack of vocabulary, and is inappropriate for children AND those that do not wish to hear it. I was in the USMC and I CAN use those words, but I have the judgement to use them at the appropriate times and places.
Horrible? Ridiculous. If this is the most horrible thing that happened that day, it was a great day.
No, it was horrible and the guy should be fired. We are getting too accepting of the obscenities if they let this pass.
No f ing way
Hope you never have family moron.
When your vocabulary consists of only 50 words like yours I can see why you thinks its ok to teach your kids to talk that way. Go check your kids mullet.
Glad2bsec you clearly never played sports. You can’t honestly be that sensitive to think
.. that this THAT bad. A mistake definitely, but if this offended you maybe try growing a pair.
Defending bad behavior is never a good look. Normally means you participate in it. Try learning new words. The English language is full of them.
The Ref does not play, he is suppose to be the one that sets the example. The players say what they have to say out of the hearing of the fans, the Ref stated them through the PA system. I bet your kids are the kind I used to eventually put in jail because they have not been taught how to act in public.
I kind of expected some long political ramble or something from the headline. Not much of a “rant”.
Unless you have your kids at the game.
you don’t think kids hear that amongst their friends? Are you a Subday School teacher? Teach your kids to filter .
Its clear you arent a “subday” teacher. No, its not ok for this junk to be acceptable. If its the best you can do, then you need to shut up.
I’m a Sunday school teacher. The kids I teach are second and third graders. Not one has ever used language like that.
Well he can complain all he wants about his equipment, but his mic works GREAT!! What a mo. So much for graduating up to the FBS. See ya.
Lol poor dude.
And again, the world overreacts to something that’s harmless.
I don’t consider it harmless. I already have to monitor what my kids watch on tv and the music they listen to. Now they can’t watch a football game with me?
There isn’t an intelligent argument for that type of language. It’s a simple lack of a persons descriptive vocabulary and more importantly, a lack of character.
The morally bankrupt see nothing wrong with it because they relate to that. It’s not hard to use better language, even when you’re upset.
Harmless? You’re a good liberal coozie.
Bet his wife had a few choice words for him. Poor guy.