Ever work a game with a team like this?

[kdf5]

Originally Posted by Bad Mood Risin

until I started reading these boards I had never heard of 6, 8, or 9 man football. I knew there was a page in the back of the rules book about it, but I thought there might only be a handful of places that play.

My crew did a game with two of the top rated teams in the largest classification in the state a few weeks ago and today we do a 6 man game so our season has games that are polar opposites of each other. We do maybe one or two 8 man games a season but we decided to do the 6 man game because the school couldn't find officials so we're taking a day of vacation to help them out. We are doing a game this evening and the 6 man game this afternoon as it's on the way.

6 man games are no longer sanctioned by my state assoc. but those 12 or so teams left organize themselves and travel hundreds of miles to play and I say more power to them and to Avella and to the others who have taken them under their wings.

[HLin NC]

The root of the problem is here-

Almost immediately, some parents complained that Gray worked their children too hard or was too strict.

American society is becoming such namby-pamby group of whiners- the Chinese will eventually take us over with out a whimper.

Does ping-pong have officials?

[bluezebra]

Originally Posted by HLin NC

The root of the problem is here-



American society is becoming such namby-pamby group of whiners- the Chinese will eventually take us over with out a whimper.

Does ping-pong have officials?

This complaint about the youth of America has been going on for generations. Go to Parris Island and/or San Diego Marine Corps Recruit Depots, and see thousands of young Americans training to become Marines. Or to the Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard recruit bases. Or the local law enforcement and fire fighter training areas. Maybe you'll be surprised about the young men and women of this nation.

Bob

[Reffing Rev.]

Two years ago the crew I was with worked an 8-man game at a school whose team had 14 kids try out in August. At the county fair all 3 seniors, one of which was all state broke bones in the rodeo, game 1 of the season their running back who as a sophomore had set the school rushing TD record broke his collar bone, and in practice the week before our game (week 7) one kid severely sprained his ankle. Pregame they had 9 players. Opening kickoff the ambulance took one of them off with a possible neck injury. Midway through the 2nd quarter with the score 40-0 another kid got hurt. During the opening series of the 3rd quarter they had the ball and another kid got hurt, and the coach came out rather than going to the injured player he came towards me and asked if we could just call the game as official at that point.

The oppossing coach wanted to get his JV kids in for a series so he refused.

[Warrenkicker]

Originally Posted by Reffing Rev.

...During the opening series of the 3rd quarter they had the ball and another kid got hurt, and the coach came out rather than going to the injured player he came towards me and asked if we could just call the game as official at that point.

The oppossing coach wanted to get his JV kids in for a series so he refused.

Well it really isn't the opposing coach's choice is it. Now there might be some other issues to worry about for the school's administration but if a team, especially the losing team, wants to stop the game then they don't have to come out. They can say that they are done and the score will stand.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Reffing Rev.

Two years ago the crew I was with worked an 8-man game at a school whose team had 14 kids try out in August. At the county fair all 3 seniors, one of which was all state broke bones in the rodeo, game 1 of the season their running back who as a sophomore had set the school rushing TD record broke his collar bone, and in practice the week before our game (week 7) one kid severely sprained his ankle. Pregame they had 9 players. Opening kickoff the ambulance took one of them off with a possible neck injury. Midway through the 2nd quarter with the score 40-0 another kid got hurt. During the opening series of the 3rd quarter they had the ball and another kid got hurt, and the coach came out rather than going to the injured player he came towards me and asked if we could just call the game as official at that point.

The oppossing coach wanted to get his JV kids in for a series so he refused.

Okay, by my count, the winning coach wanted his jv squad to get a series against 6 players. Or did the injured players continue to play?

[Bad Mood Risin]

Originally Posted by HLin NC

The root of the problem is here-



American society is becoming such namby-pamby group of whiners- the Chinese will eventually take us over with out a whimper.

Does ping-pong have officials?

Some years ago I was working as an editor of a small-town weekly paper and I liked to take news items from years past and see how far the town had come. In one of these older issues there was a letter to the editor complaining that the youth of the day were whiners. They did not know the meaning of work, were afraid to commit themselves and were being coddled by over-protective parents who didn't want their kids to have to break a sweat over anything. the letter writer was afraid for the future, given the condition of the youth at the time.

The letter was written in 1938. I think the youth of the time acquitted themselves well over the next 7 years.

[FTVMartin]

I'm working a game tonight where one of the teams dressed 16 earlier in the year and I've heard that they called last week's game at halftime when they only had 10 players left.

[bisonlj]

Originally Posted by FTVMartin

I'm working a game tonight where one of the teams dressed 16 earlier in the year and I've heard that they called last week's game at halftime when they only had 10 players left.

We had a game last year and one team only had 18 players. Rather than count 11 players on the field, our HL just turned around and made sure they had 7 on the bench. The QB left at halftime with an injury so his count went down to 6. God bless those teams for continuing to play! That is commitment.

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by kdf5

6 man games are no longer sanctioned by my state assoc. but those 12 or so teams left organize themselves

Which is the way it started (although without the long distance travel). 6-man football was going on between schools for many years before the major associations got into it. Like the way NCAA absorbed women's intercollegiate basketball that'd been AIAW's for years.

Actually come to think of it, that was the case with the other major sports we associate with the NCAA too. The NCAA was the establishment's response to football. Might've been interesting to see what would've happened if even a few of the prominent teams had told NCAA at the time to go suck an egg.

Robert