Posted on 10/26/2014 9:03:23 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Elijah Burrell did what he was taught to do if he intercepted the football -- score a touchdown. But the 8-year-old's pick-six play wasn't much to celebrate after the team was fined $500 for violating the Gwinnett Football League's mercy rule...
the Lawrenceville Black Knights were winning against their opponents, 32-0, in the fourth quarter. Burrell then intercepted a pass and went through with the touchdown, failing to comply with the league's mercy rule.
That six-point score caused the Georgia-based team to surpass the 33-point rule, which earned the coach a week-long suspension and the team a $500 fine.
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Wikipedia gave me the following stats.
It's my belief that the insanity was always there. We just didn't have the media shoving it down our throats 24/7.
Also we have 7.125 billion (2013) people today.
The world population has experienced continuous growth since the end of the Great Famine and the Black Death in 1350, when it was near 370 million.
Imagine, only 370 million people...only slightly more than the U.S.A. today: 316.1 million (2013).
Then every adult in this story must be liberal
The game should have been over if another touch down was going result in a fine.
Lol. The owners get what they pay for, don't they?
I wonder how many of the Raider players actually live in Oakland.
>>I wonder how many of the Raider players actually live in Oakland.<<
With SF across the bay? Zero.
Liberalism IS a mental disorder.
The Oakland Hills are gorgeous too. Oakland's wealthy live there.
Point shaving is what they are teaching. And it is a form of match fixing. Useful if you want to basically cheat at gambling, but not usually considered part of good sportsmanship.
I don’t understand how this insane rule is called the “mercy” rule. 33 points! So this rule says that it’s okay to humiliate them as long as it isn’t too humiliating?????
I say good for the kid who kept running even when folks were telling him to stop. If he continues to do that, he’ll have a good life (MUCH better than if he changes to please the fools who think the “mercy” rule makes sense).
That said, there are fundamental rules of discipline (run 4 miles today for fitness....nah, there's no coach, not today), positioning (I like to play center forward...but so do most of the other players. Who wants to be a midfielder that runs miles every game?), and team management (pick a starting lineup. Decide on substitutions) that just can't be performed by children.
Ideally, kids would like the game enough to want to play it on their own.
Don’t keep score and give everyone a particiation ribbon. This is why America is losing it’s standing as a world leader. You can’t have leaders in a PC world.
The rule applied to these kids was poorly thought out. Once the score went ABOVE 32, the mercy rule would be applied and the game ends.
The following season, as a 12 year-old, we got a few new players in a group of new players who moved up from the younger division. We went 15-0 and won our league championship. Four of the new players went on to become All-State high school soccer players, and one of them later played on the first U.S. World Cup soccer team in 1990.
As I looked back on that situation years later as a baseball coach, what I remember most is that I was playing on two teams in an organized league whose players had no business being on the same field together. The only thing we had in common was: (1) our parents wanted us to play youth soccer, and (2) we were in the same 11-12 age group.
I never had that problem as a kid playing baseball because I didn't play in Little League. We played baseball in the schoolyard every day, all summer long, with a group of kids whose similar skills made them "natural" teammates and opponents. We never needed a "mercy rule" because we never would have played in a group where one team could dominate another so badly.
Why are we discussing the mercy rule? It’s a liberal fantasy forced upon our reality. When you play the game, or when you accept the challenge you are then obligated to do your utmost to win the game, or succeed in the challenge. YOU DEFEAT THE OTHER GUY IS THE POINT OF THE GAME, OR THE CHALLENGE. Same in war. Same in politics.
Mercy my a$$!
Is the EU running school sports in the US?
Telling eight year olds not to do what they have been coached to do is stupid. It defeats the purpose of sport which is to practice hard and perform at ones best. I don’t participate in a sport that caters to the idea that there are no losers....when one loses he should work harder and always attempt to improve. Protecting kids from disappointment does not prepare them for life, it sets them up to fail.
“If the NFL had a mercy rule, Oakland would never play a game.”
I would argue the NFL does have a mercy rule, but imposed by the refs. The timing of bad calls, non-call calls, and spotting the ball are all ways the refs ‘keep the game fair and interesting’ to the fans; as they are unofficially told by the higher ups.
The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
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