Terrible Referee Takes Phone Call in the Middle of a Game

And you thought the Lions-Cowboys referee made a bad call.

Here’s a guy refereeing a surprisingly well-attended youth basketball game who clearly doesn’t take his gig too seriously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8VsPuO20NM

It’s downright impressive how long he stays on his phone.

The only thing that would make this better is if he was calling his bookie to put money on this game.

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Igor Derysh
Igor Derysh is Editor-at-Large at XN Sports and has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Boston Herald, Baltimore Sun, Orlando Sun-Sentinel, and FantasyPros. He has previously covered sports for COED Magazine, Fantasy Alarm, and Manwall.com. !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');