Posted on 10/26/2014 9:03:23 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
The other team should just resign, like in chess, if they don’t want to be humiliated further.
So they’re expecting an 8 year-old, in the excitement of making a pic, to remember the “mercy rule” and just take a knee instead of running it back? Weird. And this causes a $500 fine? Weirder.
We should send them money. The kid did good.
There is always frustration involved in kids sports and volunteer coaches. Sometimes the parents are the cause of a lot of the problem, pressure from parents to play their kid.
“Mercy rule”? Good grief! The wussification of America continues.
Suppose the losing team, trailing 32-0, goes three-and-out and has to punt. So the team with the lead gets the ball back - what are they supposed to do, take a knee on every play? If they want a “mercy” rule, it would logically be interpreted that any score that take you over the limit ends the game, not that the extra points over the limit constitute some kind of violation of the rule. If you are one point under the limit, there is no way of scoring that leads to only one point, so the team that has the lead would just have to keep taking a knee lest they score. This is madness, even if you accept the idea of “mercy” rules. .
My daughters soccer coach was called on the carpet by league muckily mucks because his team won every game. Their suggestions were for the girls to hold back and only kick the ball with their left foot.
Eton was a school for the upper class. The class which supplied the officers.
in addition to multiculturalism young boys have the male-depressive influence of extreme feminism invading
the areas of life-lessons where young boys acquire the
tools of becoming men
there are occasions when showing mercy can be warranted
team sports is out of context as a venue for such a lesson
Really. How hard is it to write the rule to say “First team scoring 33 points or more wins”? What, exactly, is the team with 32 points on the board supposed to do?
From wikipedia:
“The 2006 Michigan State vs. Northwestern football game featured one of the biggest comebacks in NCAA history. The Spartans (Michigan State) rallied to score 38 unanswered points to beat the Wildcats (Northwestern) 41–38 after falling behind 38–3 with 9:54 left in the 3rd quarter.”
Ask Michigan State whether there should be a “mercy rule” or whether games should end at a certain score.
That’s what happens with Pee Wee football and parents and coaches who are new to the experience. You have all these Dads who played foot ball and want their kids to have the same experience and they can’t understand why nothing is as simple as it was when they were kids.
What has changed is that sports are no longer natural to kids, there are no pick up or neighborhood games, where kids learn to be competitive and work on the fundamentals. The coaches have to do it all. The kids with older brothers have an advantage that often disappears by junior high if the kid can stick it out through grade school.
Or ask the '93 Buffalo Bills, they were behind to the Houston Oilers 35-3 in the 3rd quarter o their playoff game.
No because if they were, we'd have promotion/relegation just like they do in European soccer.
I can understand mercy rules in baseball because baseball is not run by the clock, so a dominant team could theoretically extend the game for hours, winning 100-0 or some such thing.
I saw it all. Ignorant coaches, parents, and players. Still, there were some very enjoyable and memorable moments.
Perhaps liberals will start calling it the "bullying" rule to insinuate that the winning team is in the wrong for scoring too much?
-PJ
My daughter was an elite swimmer, swimming with professional coaches. It was very difficult to watch the level of coaching in community and school sports.
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