You have to love the orange. After all, the Australian football public has forever embedded “white maggot” as part of the Aussie vernacular, but with the change to orange…well we got them in the U.S. before they had a chance to start. Unfortunately, so much else remains the same. This year, as usual, we have had our small but ever responsive team rising and meeting every challenge of umpiring games throughout the vast land, but like our mother country, umpires are in big demand- but hard to entice.
