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.
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.
Frank, you’re just a big wienie.
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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.
Since Frank objects to acting, I will assume he doesn’t watch soccer. LOL
Earth to Frank. In a game there are all sorts of things that may happen. There is a smaller number of things that usually happen. The team that concentrates only on what usually happens is a team that is playing by rote. Such a team deserves to get smacked down. Sometimes it’s by another team that does what usually happens better. Sometimes it’s by another team that has developed a strategy that employs tactics that aren’t so usual so as to give themselves an advantage against other teams that are too mainstream and limited in their approach to the game. It’s the team that boldly employs everything available to it within the rules of the game that is most fully engaging in the game. A good coach is one who is able to see what kind of game the other team plays and then adjust to take advantage of it. A good team is one that can make the adjustment quickly enough to beat the other team.
This deford bozo is probably one of those same pansies who think life should be fair at the price of true competition and no one should be allowed to win EVER because that means someone else ends up with damaged self esteem because they lost(oh no!).
It’s a game. Once upon a time, before the p*$$ification of our culture, games were played with the goal of winning by defeating ones opponent, not making everyone FEEEEEEL good.
I scored on a Center Sneak in pee wee. Snapped it and then took it back and ran 80 yds for a TD. One of the best days of my childhood. A lineman scoring, awesome. I dont care if the other team was embarrassed, I was happy.
Now Im left to wonder why, with my 80 yd avg and perfect 1:1 ratio of runs:TD, my HS coach didnt make me a RB.
So all of the following would be crimes of child abuse:
1. The “hard” count
2. The “pump fake”
3. The “play action” pass
4. The QB sneak
5. Any reverse
6. God forbid... the double reverse
7. The lateral pass
8. Zone coverage
9. “Showing the blitz” - then dropping back into coverage
Oh, the humanity. We should get the UN involved.
Deford met his wife in Delaware and they were married in 1965 but divorced 20 years later when he was discovered to be a homosexual