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This weekend saw more helmets flying than ever.
In a varsity game, a player who must have missed a block and found everyone twenty yards ahead of him as his opponent scored a touchdown, throw his helmet in disgust to the ground.
I penalized him for unsportsmanlike conduct. Should he have been disqualified?
A youth game found the starting time was filled with a sky of lightning. Delayed the start for 40 minutes being sure the lightning had cleared. Almost immediately following the coin toss thunder was heard of which one of the "meteorologist" (better know as Dad) yells, "It's only thunder! (Doesn't thunder accompany lightning?)
Then a flash of lightning, I told everyone to abandon the area. The visting players became visibly upset and, you guessed it, threw their helmets.
No penalty, just a report to the commissioner.
Finally, rough Sunday youth game, player blocking on pass play once the pass had left the area decides to swing at the back of his opposing number. When told he was out of the game he yelled back at me and was finally restrained by teammates and went to the bench where "he threw his helmet." Player was disqualified following the personal foul.
Is this a new fad based upon those pesky cameras watching the millionaires of the NFL?
What penalties do you prescribe for this new display of emotion?
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