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That's pretty chickenshitt... A good football coach would never pull that kind of stunt. If I was a parent on that team that scored,I'd demand he step down immediatly... Chickenshitt is putting it mildly...

That's awesome. I watched it twice.

It was beautiful, not chickenschitt...:)

I don't know what your experience is with playing sports but it's my opinion that that was as bad of an example as you can get for sportsmanship... The coach should be fired for even teaching that play,much less running it...

It was a trick play, sorry it offended you.

Have you played sports at any level?

I'm not as vociferous in my disdain for that trick play as Brother Bart but I didn't care for it. It wasn't that great of a play and certainly showed no talent or athleticism. Not something I would teach the kids and YES I coach football.

That's just it - you want to be good enough where that's not needed.

LMAO!

Maybe Dallas could use that coach.

Yup...or lose with your head held high.

What's wrong with it?

It's within the rules of the game, which obviously were not adequately taught by the coach of the opposing team. Put the onus on him!

Bet they know now - and won't ever forget -- that when the football comes off the ground, it is in play, and remains so until a whistle blows. And "trick plays" by an opponent are within the realm of possibility and need to be considered.

Trick me once - shame on you - trick me twice, shame on me.

I'd rather run that play than get caught with a helmet full of stupid watching it happen. How is it different than the Statue of liberty play?

It was pretty funny.

The video didn't show the referee signal TD.

las----I know but for me at least, it seems a little slimy. You are correct in that it's within the rules but young kids are more retiscent to tackle. I think they don't want to hurt the other guy and he played it like the ball was whistled dead.

In any case I doubt that team will run that play again....if nothing else but for the poor kid tasked with carrying the ball the next time. Face meet turf....

Man oh man, that was ballsy as hell, AND it worked!

Coaches are teachers... They have a responsibility to teach not only the game but good sportsmanship and that comes with winning and losing. Trick plays have no place in youth sports. There's too many things that these kids need to learn that are essential to being successful in life....

Wasn't there a baseball game years ago where the pitcher threw a couple of pitch outs and then screamed one down the gut for the 3rd strike?

while not as jazzed over it as Bart is, I don't think it's appropriate at that age level. if you want to try it in college, more power to you, but your center and qb are likely to get creamed and you'll have a turnover.


coached one of my kid's by default this summer, team mom trying to coach just wasn't gettin it done, a good lady, just not suited to coach middle school kids.

the boys got aggravated with me a few times if we played a team that was short handed, I'd pull enough of my guys off to make it even. Told them, if we win, we'll hold our heads up with pride not cause we outnumbered them but because we outcompeted them.


did it one time and the opposing coach had a kid show up late so he put him in, musta been 5 minutes before one of the parents let me know what had happened that we were playing short handed.

lol, I'd like to think it was just oversight on the other coach as we were beating them pretty handily.


there has to be a time in life to teach sportsmanship, I figure up to and thru high school is reserved for that, win at any cost can be delayed for college and thereafter.

I'm with Bart, the coach would get no love for that kind of deal AT that age.

You could only get away with that playing the Cowboys.