About us

The main writers and presenters on this page are a husband and wife team, Taryn and Nick Bame.

Nick has been officiating football since 2005, covering youth football up to semi-pro and Arena Football. Nick has covered high school playoff football in 3 states (ID, KY, and GA) and has done games up to the semi-final level. He started as a Linesman, but has changed positions recently to a deep judge (FJ, SJ, and BJ). He has just started working as Referee in some lower level competitions. Nick has also been calling basketball games since 2005 and has covered games ranging from youth to High School. With his wife, Taryn, he has called games in both the Adidas and Nike circuits for High School players including the national tournament held in North Augusta, SC, the Nike Peach Jam and Invitational.

Nick is an entrepreneur, owning 3 businesses, and working as a benefits consultant for a home healthcare company.

After falling deeply in love with Nick in 2009 and attending most of his games being the only fan of the officials, Taryn joined the ranks of the on-court stripe wearing fans of the game. She began by calling Volleyball, and moved into basketball and excelled at it. Having played in High School, she understood the rules and how a game should flow and applied that quickly into her officiating. She was selected to call the 4-5A girls All-Star game in her first year and grew from there calling some semi-pro and girls and boys playoff basketball in Georgia along with the Adidas and Nike games. If she wouldn't have made the choice to have children, there's no doubt her career would also include some NCAA or NJCAA games as well, but that's a decision neither one of us would ever regret making again.

Taryn is also an entrepreneur, selling a special brand of make-up called Senegence. Look her up on her facebook and Instagram under "3-point lips."

Combined and adding years together, we have officiated a total of over 30 years between all sports. We are still learning, and we are not looking to stop any time soon.

Our goal with Ref Bag is to provide officials another resource for information about gear that us officials use every day so you don't have to worry about buying something that isn't a good product. Short term we will be providing affiliate links to other websites where you can buy the gear. Long term we want to be able to sell the gear ourselves and use some of the profits to give back to sports and officials. We also want to use some of the profits to get a QUALITY training program put together for officials new and veteran to grow their knowledge of the game.

If you have any connections, ideas, or resources that you think would or could be helpful, then don't hesitate to reach out.