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Are we serious?
If you’re serious enough to complain, then we’re serious enough to tell you your little snowflake just handed the game to the other team.
For the uninitiated, the red team received the kick-off, down 2 points, and got out of bounds to stop the clock to have one more hail-mary play.
The green team, instead of swatting the attempt to the ground, and ending the game, made the interception and then put the ball on the ground, effectively fumbling the ball.
Is Pee Wee football a big deal? No. But I cannot stand people who seem to think that other people are being too strict with rules when they work against them. The woman asking, “are you serious?,” seems to be implying that everyone else is being too serious about the rules of the game, while she is deadly seriously pissed that her kid just lost a meaningless game.
I Luv Bacon
October 29th, 2012
Lunchbucket. Bwa hahaha
Left Coast Dan
October 29th, 2012
As someone who was a freshman at Cal the year of The Play, I always tell people to keep going until the whistle is blown.
Moe Tom
October 29th, 2012
Fur that is so funny. LMAO. I see the Red team as conservatives and the green team as obamaroids. We don need no stinkin rules. Rules get in the way.Great stuff.
I Luv Bacon
October 29th, 2012
Didn’t the whistle kill the play?
I Luv Bacon
October 29th, 2012
Your right!
No whistle.
Bad Brad
October 29th, 2012
Wow, this is like Dejavuey. Less then two hour ago I was having a conversation in the gym with a bud that I’ve been lifting with since I was young and pretty. Topic, our kids sports. Parents are idiot. We covered death threats, parent/coaches protecting their retarded kids, parents and coaches chewing out 14 year old refs. etc. I’m glad that’s done.
Unruly Refugee
October 29th, 2012
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am glad that I don’t have to attend my kid’s sports games any more, as they are grown. My grandkids are just shit out of luck.
Stranded in Sonoma
October 29th, 2012
I coached youth football at this level. The kids were great. We always made sure they all got to play as that was part of the rules; there is a player activity rule that is strictly enforced.
The parents on the other hand were some of the worst potty-mouths and tyrants you could think of. I once lost my starting QB as he was running to the sidelie during player introductions! He stepped in a pothole and strained his knee and hamstring. Goodbye game! I had to put the backup in and he just wasn’t up to it. He was only a year younger but it was his first year in football. This was the starter’s 4th year. The other coach was nice enough to go easy on us once he had the game in the bag. The parents were ripping me. But the loudest was from our 8 year old backup’s mother who thought her son was Joe Montana II and blamed me for his poor play.
The parents are always the worst. Which is why I volunteered to help announce or keep time in the booth when my youngest son played, so I wouldn’t be like the parents in this video.
Paul Moore
October 29th, 2012
This is why I could never get into sports. All games are meaningless by definition. Yet people persist in turning them into deadly serious obsessions. I often wonder what life would be like if regular people were treated like professional athletes. Imagine cheerleaders at the office screaming “File that report!” How about breathless commentators up on a roof interviewing carpenters about their risky job. Think that you could assault your co workers, demand an obscene salary, act like an arrogant jerk, and lead a debauched private life without consequences?
AvgDude
October 29th, 2012
I think the results of this game needs to go all the way to the Supreme Court. We’ll need to know all the pertinent facts first. Which team had more minorities on it? Was there a girl or a gay kid on the green squad? If so, then they should’ve won.
Callmelennie
October 29th, 2012
Not only is there no whistle, it’s the lack of a whistle that cues two kids on the red team that the play isn’t over.
The instant the ball is spiked, it seems like everybody on both teams thinks the game is over. Then you can see #21 on the red team looking quizically at the ref, at which point #8, who was right next to the ref comes up and scoops up the ball.
It’s the non-action of the ref, who should be blowing the whistle and signaling that the game is over, that cued #8 that the play is not over
and that — Holy Shit — the ball is still LIVE and I have a chance to win the game.
Rich Taylor
October 29th, 2012
The official’s whistle never blew but the game clock buzzer did blow (thus ending the game) while the ball was still in the air. Once the opposing team made the interception the game was over, period. The officials, much like ACORN, injected their will, gave one side an unfair advantage, and determined the final outcome. Sometimes sports does imitate politics.
Callmelennie
October 29th, 2012
Rich, you’re theory is contradicted by the actions of all three refs and the coaches of the Green team who are clearly trying to tell the kids the play isn’t over. The buzzer clearly was a factor in confusing the kids
The rule is you have to get a play started before the final buzzer, but once it starts the play is allowed to go until the finish, no matter what. Many many long game winning field goals have been kicked with less than three seconds to play even though it takes about five to six seconds for the ball to cross the goalposts
As for the final nail in your theory’s coffin, I give you “The Play” — the six lateral kickoff return for a TD that let Cal beat Stanford thirty years ago. This play started with .04 on the clock and took 22 seconds to complete and yet it counted as a TD