"They can't do that!"

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Multiple Sports

As old as you and the game are did you watch it in black and white.

Yes, and not because it was broadcast in black and white, because the newly married BillyMac's couldn't afford one of those new fangled, expensive, color televisions on a teacher's salary.

[Multiple Sports]

Most of the young whipper snappers on here have no idea as to the following....."Jeremiah was a bullfrog...was a good friend of mine"

[JRutledge]

When I see a fumble one of these this will be a first for me personally. The Miracle in the Meadowlands was a play being run in full and fumbled, not the practice for kneeling down. Totally different situations. I agree with the Giants coach.

Peace

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by bainsey

I'm looking for a parallel here.

If you saw the end of the Giants/Bucs NFL game yesterday, you saw the Giants in a "victory formation," but the Bucs opted to pound the line and go for the ball. The Giants were pretty upset about that, even though it's completely within the rules, it's something you "just don't do," according to Coach Coughlin.

(Personally, I think Coughlin needs to review Herm Edwards' famous line.)

Does anyone have an experience along this line where a coach thought the opposing team was doing something wrong, yet it was well within the rules, and possibly innovative?

I recently heard a great approach to a blow out. It was a football game.

Team B was winning handily and showed no signs of letting down. The coach at half-time went to the Team A coach and gave him a copy of the 2nd-half plays he'd be running. B then told A that he was putting his 2nd stringers in, along with players in "new" positions, but they would not play down - they were going to play hard and learn how to play football.

I say you play to win the game, and to develop players, especially at the pro level. With the money they're making, too bad about their feelings.

The above solution by the A coach was brilliant.

[Freddy]

Originally Posted by bainsey

Does anyone have an experience along this line where a coach thought the opposing team was doing something wrong, yet it was well within the rules, and possibly innovative?

Scorekeeper erroneously records five fouls on star visiting guard instead of four. Due to offset score table, the head coach's box for visiting team is about 6" from the end of the table, so the visiting coach was right there next to the R when he was trying to straighten out the whole mess with the scorer. Not really getting involved, just right there. The home coach, meanwhile, was putting up a huge fuss that we allowed the opposing coach to be right there at the table while he had to stay in his box way down there pret'neer in a different zip code.
Legal, but protested.
Turned out okay, and, to me anyway, it's just desserts for a coach whose school gets those stupid bleachers that require the scorer's table not to be located at midcourt.