Holy Drama Mama Frankie! It was a valuable lesson to the other team to know what the rules are and to watch for the other team trying to catch you off guard.
Child abuse?! What a dork. We baby kids too much already.
Posted on 11/17/2010 4:31:12 PM PST by llevrok
What a stupid idiot pansy-@ss. He needs a slap upside his fool Lib head. Those middle-schoolers could stomp him.
“I will now give you a lecture on situational ethics. “
No you won’t. That’s where I stopped reading.
Heard it before: It’s fair that BSU won the 2007 Fiesta Bowl because Oklahoma fell for the Statue of Liberty play!
I bet that writer was always on the losing team.
Talk about gamesmanship and trickery, NPR practices it on a daily basis in their deceitful shellgame to hide the fact that they receive substantial government monies. DEFUND NPR.
Holy Drama Mama Frankie! It was a valuable lesson to the other team to know what the rules are and to watch for the other team trying to catch you off guard.
Child abuse?! What a dork. We baby kids too much already.
All field sports are ersatz war with rules governing them to prevent death to the participants. Any thing done within the rules is fair play. This was the design and execution of a tactical genious.
My dad says if you ain’t cheatin’ you ain’t trying -and- the reason we beat the Japanese in the Pacific theater is because they didn’t know how to play football or cheat ....
Frank Deford, second-in-command of the high school chess team, tried out for football in eighth grade, was asked politely to leave. (I’m guessing, but I’m sure I’m close)
Any team falling for that one deserves to get scored on.
Doubt he ever played.
I bet he got beat up at school a lot.
Frank, you’re just a big wienie.
ping
LOL my exact thought - never picked eh Francis
LOL my exact thought - never picked eh Francis
LOL my exact thought - never picked eh Francis
I coached kids in football for 15 years....up through Freshmen. Every play is meant to deceive and I believe, in this case, the Ref’s were made aware of the fact that a trick play was going to take place. I have run many trick plays and the kids love them. The name of the game is to win. I would tell my kids that and I told the parents that if I didn’t intend to win, I wouldn’t put my kids on the field.
Some trick plays will really throw the other team and catch them off guard. With those plays, I wouldn’t let the team run them until they had two touch downs more than the other team or if we really needed to score. The coaches on the other team would, some times, yell out “Watch out for those phony trick plays”. Those were the type of coaches I loved to play against because they couldn’t coach their kids to play the game.
Let me add one thing here. I loved all my kids and it was their team, not mine. I ran 40 kids with one assistant coach. All kids played, some more than others. I’ve had them go on to High School, College and Pro Teams. It was the best time of my life.
Let the kids play the game. As long as they go by the rules, they will never forget.
This is the comment I sent to Frank at NPR:
It isn’t our fault that Frank DeFord was always the last one picked for football for childhood football games. The stupidity of your objection to Driscoll Middle School’s
football team’s play is really telling about your lack of knowledge of sport and Americans. Sorry, Frank. Your commentary has a large BITE ME from the American sports-fans-at-large written all over it. You liberals really need
to get in touch with America and Americans.
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