Cowboys22;1572611 said:
Excuse me for having an opinion, but you put your kids in sports for many reasons. One of them is to teach them about hard work and fair play. You hope they experience the thrills of winning after working hard and you hope they learn how to be good losers and develop the ambition to try harder to succeed. Then some coach comes along and pulls some crap like that and it totally goes against everything a good parent should be trying to teach their kids. All that play did was teach those kids about looking for shortcuts. I feel sorry for any kid raised in an environment where that kind of stuff is encouraged and praised!
Balls! Either the play is legal, or it's not. The game has rules for a reason, and there's nothing wrong with or unfair about a trick play. It keeps things fun for the team with the trick, and keeps the other guys on their toes.
One year in HS football, we'd played our guts out against a better team and fell just short. Their QB was running the clock out and was dancing around in the pocket (literally, dancing) trying to buy a few extra seconds and being cute. His whole line was looking over its shoulder at him and giggling. From my MLB spot, about six yards down the field, I got a running start at their center. Hit him just as he turned around, right in the chin, just as the QB *finally* took his knee. Perfectly legal. Center did a 360 in the air over his now-kneeling QB and landed face down in the mud. "Still giggling?" I asked on my way back to my side of the field. The point is, sometimes it doesn't pay to get cute, sometimes it does. They have whistles for a reason, and it's not all that hard to remember to play until you hear a whistle, even in Pop Warner.
