Well, that is a good point.
Manley could have asked the lady not to take the pictures. It was not necessary to muscle her.
Well, I don't take their side of the story as verbatim. The Idaho Athletic Association placed the high school on a year's probation and the local school board banned the couple for life.
Seems to me that there might be a little more to the story.
I'm not a lawyer, but I thought that just because someone threatens to beat you up doesn't necessarily add up to assult. You have to be physically capable of it. this Manley guy sounds like he's pretty big.
I don't know... Most high school football referees (white hats, that is) are old. Old and overweight often too.
Personally, I don't think that all the wife was doing was taking pictures... Call it a gut instinct.
Officials take all sorts of crap from people at every game — I just don't think that one would snap just because someone was taking a photo.