Taping up weight end of flag

[Refsmitty]

Just bought a couple of black end flags at Honigs - takes care of that problem.

[Welpe]

You need to work several layers over the flag to get it smoothed out. Honigs and other companies sell white ball flags but I find them to be too lightweight.

I just use a Honig's long toss flag and leave it alone. Everybody knows we have flags.

[Rich]

Taping a flag to hide it is, well, stupid.

Taping a flag's ball with black electrical tape to give it more weight and a better controlled throw (especially long distance) is a better reason to do it.

[Texas Aggie]

There's no reason to tape a flag, ever. If its torn, get another one -- they're cheap. (I do have old flags for weather games, but they are still in one piece.) If you insist on non-yellow showing, there are ones with both white and black ball ends. If you need something heavier, there are heavy weighted flags.

A trip to Honig's website solves all these issues.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Refsmitty

Just bought a couple of black end flags at Honigs - takes care of that problem.

Yep. I have both black and white tipped flags depending on the pants I wear.

Originally Posted by RichMSN

Taping a flag to hide it is, well, stupid.

I would not call it stupid at all. I have had coaches talk about what they think you were going to do by looking at what you reached for. The is the reason I do not think you should stick your flag in your back pocket (Maryland-Northern Illinois comes to mind several years ago). It is much harder for those to see what you are grabbing or if anything. Not to say this solves everything, but I see the purpose by doing this as nothing else we wear is yellow. I also think it looks better than a flag hanging out of your belt all the time. Also I wear two flags on my belt and it looks like you are gunning for people if you have multiple flags clearly seen. And as a BJ is is very common I will have two flags on a given play considering my position and the nature of the position.

Peace

[Rich]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Yep. I have both black and white tipped flags depending on the pants I wear.



I would not call it stupid at all. I have had coaches talk about what they think you were going to do by looking at what you reached for. The is the reason I do not think you should stick your flag in your back pocket (Maryland-Northern Illinois comes to mind several years ago). It is much harder for those to see what you are grabbing or if anything. Not to say this solves everything, but I see the purpose by doing this as nothing else we wear is yellow. I also think it looks better than a flag hanging out of your belt all the time. Also I wear two flags on my belt and it looks like you are gunning for people if you have multiple flags clearly seen. And as a BJ is is very common I will have two flags on a given play considering my position and the nature of the position.

Peace

Your opinion. I think it's idiotic. If I reach for a flag, it's going on the ground.

I've taped mine for 2 years now, but only because I like the weighting better. I haven't found a weighted flag with the right balance until I took an old flag and some electrical tape and experimented a bit.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

Your opinion. I think it's idiotic. If I reach for a flag, it's going on the ground.

I've taped mine for 2 years now, but only because I like the weighting better. I haven't found a weighted flag with the right balance until I took an old flag and some electrical tape and experimented a bit.

Fair enough. But I have not seen any wait that the flag reasonably adds to the flag at all. I simply did that to hide the yellow on the uniform. And if you look at my football pictures you will see the picture with my black pants and you have no idea I have flags on me. That is why I do that.

Peace

[parepat]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

Taping a flag to hide it is, well, stupid.

Taping a flag's ball with black electrical tape to give it more weight and a better controlled throw (especially long distance) is a better reason to do it.

Is the there a reason WHite tape is "stupid", but black electrical tape isn't. WHat is heavier a pound of white athletic tape or a pound of black electrical tape?

[HLin NC]

Black is historically a slimming color so white would be heavier!

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by HLin NC

Black is historically a slimming color so white would be heavier!

Try videotaping it: they say the camera adds 10 pounds.

[Canned Heat]

I have black-ended for our pants and white-ended for our knickers, but keeping the white ended ones white is a battle of fruition. I do like the fact that it does get hidden a little bit. I'm with Rich on this...If I pull it...it's almost certainly going down. However...Anyone who tells you they've never reached and then backed off of a flag throw is either lying or is in their first year.

I do like the fact that the flags can be hidden to a certain degree. If you're wearing flags, bags, a Ready-Ref timer and a towel...you start to look like you're wearing Bat Man's utility belt out there.

[GoodwillRef]

Originally Posted by Canned Heat

I have black-ended for our pants and white-ended for our knickers, but keeping the white ended ones white is a battle of fruition. I do like the fact that it does get hidden a little bit. I'm with Rich on this...If I pull it...it's almost certainly going down. However...Anyone who tells you they've never reached and then backed off of a flag throw is either lying or is in their first year.

I do like the fact that the flags can be hidden to a certain degree. If you're wearing flags, bags, a Ready-Ref timer and a towel...you start to look like you're wearing Bat Man's utility belt out there.

Why wouldn't you use the black flags with your white pants also? The black flags blends in with your black belt not your white pants (3 inches below your belt).

[Coach Jinx]

When I first started we had a engineer on our crew who had all these eletrical tape colors & we all taped out game flags white. Sure everyone knows we have flags but life is about perception. When you come out there double barrelled first time you throw a flag for anything they are going to think "oh look at this guy". Not seeing them gives a better perception. If you don't think so, do it your way. I like the white electrical tape & I put the black tape on my lower level flag 6 years ago & now with the black pants Honigs come out with the black tipped flag. Do what you want, you always will, but there is a science to the madness

[Canned Heat]

Just got a black one today from a supply house....

[Rich]

Originally Posted by parepat

Is the there a reason WHite tape is "stupid", but black electrical tape isn't. WHat is heavier a pound of white athletic tape or a pound of black electrical tape?

Taping to hide the flag is stupid. I thought I made it quite clear that I put tape on in order to get the balance and weighting right, not cause I didn't want (gasp!) a coach to see my flag.

I used black cause it's heavier and you don't need to wrap it as much to get the same weight. I tried athletic tape and I just didn't like it. If someone will send me flag-colored electrical tape, I'll use that.