Violet Palmer

The Houdini.

What else do we have? We have someone named Violet Palmer.

I actually remember when this became a thing.

1997.

I was there.

In 1997, Violet Palmer makes professional sports history by becoming the first woman...

To officiate an NBA game, there was little reaction by the crowd when her name was announced just before tip-off of the game between the Mavericks and the Grizzlies.

She has a sister, Rosie.

In 1997, R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry announced he was leaving the group after 17 years and he became a farmer.

Also in 1997, the NBA announced the hiring of Dee Cantner and Violet Palmer as the first two women to officiate in a major league all-sports league, all-male sports league group.

In 2004, Courtney Love was ordered to stand trial on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after Kristen King told an L.A. court that Love threw a bottle and lit a candle at her after turning up at the home of a former boyfriend in the early hours.

King told the court Love was, quote, vicious and erratic when she allegedly attacked her while she slept on a sofa the previous April.

your trials and tribulations, they don't know what you went through to get where you went through.

You just didn't become Violet Palmer, the NBA ref.

You went through some stuff.

You know what I mean? And that's the same with me.

Say it

again.

You can't, you gotta be able to, if you're going to give yourself an opportunity for Violet Palmer or Joe Crawford, or Lonnie McCutcheon or whoever to see you, you got to be able to say, God, I get to give them something to look at.

I can't, I can't be 50 pounds overweight.