If you ask a hundred hockey fans....99-percent will tell you that they don’t care about any extra info on the referee crowd, other than they are qualified. They don’t care if the guy is married, a Republican, into distilling bourbon, lives in Montana, or has six daughters with ‘Wanda’ as the first name.
I can remember through the early 1970s...most baseball announcers never discussed even the names of umpires other than at the all-star games or World Series.
This idea that more personal info on their habits or lusty affairs will influence me? No. It won’t work.
But if he makes a bad call and the crowd boos him, he’ll automatically revert to those boos being because he’s gay, not because of a bad call.
Watch.
It’s what they do. Victims always.