Posted on 09/27/2019 11:02:56 AM PDT by llevrok
I played high school football. I was 175lbs, played line, and was second string. We also had an All American center on our team. He was 300lbs, benched 475 lbs, and enjoyed crushing people. I often had to line up against him during practice. I didn’t have the choice to back down or bow out. I accepted my role as cannon fodder.
Also changing the name to the “Aberdeen Pussies”
What a bunch of wussies!!
what kind of message does the coach think he’s sending to his team?
Bad Coach!! Needs to be fired..
‘Too many young men get their brains damaged playing high school football.’
tens of thousands of young men have played football, and have gone on to live perfectly normal, functional lives...
‘Not worth it’
indeed; let’s put them in skirts and let them play field hockey...
Too many young men get their brains damaged playing high school football. It’s the concussions that do it. Not worth it
I played football but I would not recommend it for kids now. There have been so many people injured with concussions, bad knees, backs, and neck injuries. There is no upside for most people. A lot of high school players are as big as college players and do not have the training or equipment as college students which leads to these injuries.
Why pit a man with no experience against a someone with years of political experience?
God forbid he might win and begin to change the entire world.
The flyweight might get brain-damage. CTE is real enough, even for tough guys.
Knowing when to pick your battles is one of life's lessons some people never learn.
That the team members' long-term health is more important than playing a silly little game.
Cheat. I was never beneath twisting an ankle in the bottom of the pile. The trick was holding when the ref couldn't see it. Ethical? No. But you didn't get skunked when the game was over.
I agree...2 different class teams...Like pitting a high school team up against a college team...A good one...
If Kelso beats their own league players 62-0, what, they want to shoot for 100-0 with a team in a lower league???
Yep, Don Boscoe, Paramus Chathlic, etc. I grew up in Monmouth ounty. There was no such thing. I lived in Mahwah for a couple years. I was shocked when some my acquaintances told me the parochial schools recruited. Don Bosocoe and Bergen Cathlic seem to be a pipeline for Boston College at the time.
I think this coach did the right thing.
My own rugby club here in Atlanta will usually keep the A side players from playing on the B side matches. It would just be absolute beat down.
It’s delicate balance. Sure It can build character. It can get you paralyzed or killed
If the coach thinks these kids are not ready for that, good for him.
They're like that all over the Country...Totally unfair...
475 pounds.... bull crap.
BS. Winning by a large margin, even in football, does not suggest or even imply that the losing team will suffer one or more injuries. That’s just ridiculous. I’ve officiated sports, including football, for over 30 years. Never seen mass injuries due to a TALENT differential. There are big, fast, and strong players on Aberdeen; if there aren’t, then that’s the fault of the coach. Just not as many or they’re not as skilled, at least not as a unit, as Kelso. There’s just as much a risk of injury to players of the winning team as there is to the players of the losing team.
For something like this to be accurate, you’d have to take an NFL type team and play a lower level HS team and tell the pro guys to intentionally hurt the HS guys. Even if the HS team played Alabama, they’d probably survive intact. Yeah, they’d get hit and blocked a little harder, but for the most part, they’d just be ran over and ran by.
The coach knows this. He’s trying to take advantage of the fact that people like you don’t know this and keep from having to take the sideline of what will probably be a 64-0 type loss. Your boxing analogy is misplaced.
It all depends on whose ox is getting gored.
I watched the Fort Knox Eagles play one season when I was stationed there.
They had a huge offensive line.
Huge!
They just had some big young guys that year.
They had two plays:
1. Running back go left.
2. Running back go right.
They were undefeated that season.
I played for the smallest school in the highest athletic class in my state. We were often matched up against much larger schools with big talented kids. My senior year all of us on the offensive line purchased Everlast heavy bag boxing gloves to wear during games. The secret to these gloves was that they had a thick metal rod that ran across the palm. If I had a particularly troublesome linebacker or defensive lineman, I would get my hand up under his facemask and pop him in the chin a few times with my open hand. It either settled them down or really pissed them off but a guy has got to grab every advantage that he can. The state athletic association made a rule against those gloves the next season because apparently there were a lot of guys wearing them that year. That was back in the early part of the glorious 80’s.
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