What's more unsportsmanlike?
Last year our varsity crew witnessed a team take a knee on a PAT in the second or third quarter (I forget exactly which). They were clearly the better team that night, but upon reflection we felt it was actually a much bigger slap in the face to do that. And, in the end, they ended up not achieving the 40-point differential which would have forced a running clock and ended the whole game that much quicker. They were lucky no one on either team suffered a pointless injury in a game who's outcome had been decided in the first few minutes.
I believe the team should punch in the PAT and then call off the dogs on the next series with lots of substitutions and conservative play calling on both sides of the ball.
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Mon Aug 18, 2003, 09:52am
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