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elguapo543

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Welcome to real life, people. The person interviewing for the job you want isn't going to delete half their resume to make it a more "fair" process. Someone's going to win a lawsuit, someone is going to lose on advocating a proposal... it just happens. It HAS to happen that way.

That score tells me the defense just had no pride; that's a "teaching moment" for THEIR coach to explain to his kids why you don't quit on yourself or your teammates, those counting on you. It's not the other team's fault that Pompona-whoever didn't have their **** together. They did nothing but run the ball and play with scrubs, yet still scored over 40? That's not their fault...
 
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futaba.79

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that got beat 63 - 0 when I was a Jr.. Those 17ers left their starters in and scored with about a minute to play. Then they went for two because they had missed their last pat. On the bus ride home we swore before god that the next season we would kick their *** for that ****, and we did. We won 21 - 0. That 63 - 0 loss was character building, it really was.
 
Shmuley

Shmuley

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Mar 6, 2008
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the intramural basketball team I was on got clocked by a stacked team of athletes 122-8.

They never apologized.
 
GloryDawg

GloryDawg

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Mar 3, 2005
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I guy I work with is a High School ref for MAIS and he says when a game score get way out of hand, they will keep the clock running, they will not call holding calls or early starts. They do everything they can to speed up the game. They will call unsportmanship penalties. He says the one thing that pisses him off is when the coach for the winning team gets angry for not making those calls.
 
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RebelBruiser

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I was at a game last Friday where I noticed they did a running clock for part of the 4th quarter.

I have no problem with that. I also have no problem with running your normal offense if you have your back ups or your seniors in the game that don't usually get to play. For those guys, it may be their only chance to get live action on the year, and they deserve to be able to run the offense and defense just like everyone else.
 
Shmuley

Shmuley

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to take advantage of the developing situation. These estrogen-laden children, raised in a homo-erotic environment where everyone is equal without regard to skills or abilities and no one is allowed to fail, watching HGTV and other homo **** - these pitiful people will be your competition in life. It should be Urban Meyer versus Crxxms.
 
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NewTweederEndzoneDance

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the newer generations in the country are going to grow up to be the biggest generation of pussies known to the history books. And the problem is that its the generation which a lot of us are in, or the one right above ours that are ruining things.

That kind of attitude makes me cringe. If you don't want to get your *** handed to you, or for your kid to get his *** handed to him, how about you instill a sense of pride and teach them a work ethic.
 
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Porkchop.sixpack

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Jan 23, 2007
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is BS, too. If a player breaks the rules, he should be called on it, regardless of how far behind the team is. It isn't a matter of trying to hold the score down or get the game over with as soon as possible. You don't permit rule breaking and there should be consequences so that players learn and develop.

Personally, I think a coach should put in the scrubs. For one thing, it gives the scrubs experienced that MIGHT be useful one day. And it is merciful. But, once you put in the scrubs and you stop passing, what the hell else should be done? Take a knee when you get the ball? Bat down interceptions that can be made? That's BS.
 
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graddawg

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Jun 4, 2007
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I am proud to say that I once attended Chaminade-Madonna. Keep on kicking ***, Lions.
 
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DerHntr

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there is really no other way to look at it.

i'll be very happy to teach my kids one day to be cut throat little bastards who will run the score up on someone even if all they are doing is playing paper football. beat their asses and when you do lose figure out how not to do that **** again.

in my opinion, Second Place is the First Loser.
 
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PosterFormerlyKnownAsRFAA

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Nov 16, 2005
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It isn't like they were missing limbs or in wheelchairs.

To be more specific, this is how the school is described in most of the articles about the story:

Dallas Academy, a school that specializes in teaching students with "learning differences," such as short attention spans or dyslexia, has only eight players on its varsity squad and is winless over the last four seasons.
 
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Uncle Leo

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Jun 30, 2006
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Take a knee the entire second half? Why not just go ahead and end the game at half time? If I'm on the losing team, I would feel more shame for that.

For crying out loud, have some pride!

I know that when I'm competing in something and I'm losing badly, for the other person to quit trying pisses me off more than the fact that I'm losing.
 
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Paperdawg

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May 1, 2006
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As an MAIS official in SW MS, most of our games are over by halftime. W/mutual agreement from the coaches, we run the 2nd half clock at all times and keep games that could be 63-0 or more down to about 42 -0 or so. Sometimes, if a team that is winning by a large margin, and they are still throwing the ball deep downfield, 75 is holding as soon as the ball is snapped.

I agree that the team that is getting skull drug is supposed to stop the team that is doing the skull dragging, but to keep the players safe on both teams, it's just good sense to run the clock and the game officially over.
 
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Paperdawg

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May 1, 2006
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What's the big deal? The players on the field are going to play hard, no matter if they are starters or back ups & sometimes big plays happen in a game. Who is going to tell a kid, especially a backup, that if they intercept a pass or pick up a fumble or burst through a huge hole that he can't score? The opposing coach, as bad as I feel for his team, probably knows that if his kids had a chance to do it, they would, too.

Hell I've seen a girls basketball team hang 110 on an opponent and hold the loser to less than 20-and the leading scorers from the winner were all back ups. The players on both teams never gave up, it's just that one team was way better coached and had way better talent than the other.
 
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LewisNixon

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Mar 3, 2008
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or shut up about how bad you get beat. Secondly, I have been writing my tell all book, "The Pussification of America" for at least three years. Not saying Shmuley stole it from me, but I was in the pussification trenches back when nobody else believed.
 
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Porkchop.sixpack

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Jan 23, 2007
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integrity. You should call penalties that happen. And you shouldn't call ones that don't happen.

I wouldn't have any problem with you stepping over to the sidelines and telling the coach to lay off because this one is over. But, calling **** that doesn't happen? And not calling **** that does happen?

Honesty.....it doesn't suck.
 
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MSUCE99

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Nov 15, 2005
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Back when I was a kid, they made Tonka trucks out of steel. By God American steel. You would not drop a Tonka truck on your head more than once; you would either die from a crushed skull or, if you were lucky, you would learn that 20 pounds of steel hurt when dropped, and you would not to do it again.

But since we've gotten all of these Consumer Product Safety Commissions now that mandate that childrens' toys can't weigh more than 4 ounces in case someone decides to drop one on their head, they now make Tonka Trucks out of plastic. As a result, the bottom of the human gene pool are being protected from themselves. Dumb people who would have, in times past, killed themselves off long ago are now, by virtue of "safer toys", reaching adulthood - and worse, producing offspring. This results in the Dumbing Down of America. Think of it as a fork in Darwin's eye.

Survival of the Fittest has been replaced with Survival of Them All, Including Idiots, with the added benefit that kids get shittier toys to play with now than when I was a kid. My son's Little People Pirate Ship has a frickin' smiley face and two pieces of knotted rope instead of the Jolly *!@#@$% Roger. God help us all.

And the Tonka Truck Theory has been in development for 10+ years now.
 
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Porkchop.sixpack

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Jan 23, 2007
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Darwin award theory, you do realize that plastic is much cheaper than steel particuarly given the run up in steel prices. And it doesn't rust -- which probably is Darwin related, also, as the 'tards can't remember to keep them out of the rain.

My point is that the Tonka toy thing is probably cost related more than lawsuit related. But, your point is made all the same.
 
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Paperdawg

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May 1, 2006
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and getting out of there with no one getting hurt. It's only a ball game.
Never had a coach tell me, "hey whitehat, our guys are holding on every play. . . aren't you gonna call it?" I have had a coach tell me, "75 was holding? Well, we won't be throwing deep any more."
I guess if you've never been on a high school field in an officiating capacity, you wouldn't understand. We don't call holding, for example, if the play goes right and the holding occurs on the left side of the field. I've sure seen MState get called for holding on such type play and I'd bet your last $5 that you didn't think it should have been called.
 
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Porkchop.sixpack

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But, integrity is important.

And no **** -- I have never officiated a high school game. I have never been interviewed either. And I haven't coached college sports either.

I am just saying that you need to find another way than making ******** calls.

Nice bet. And you wouldn't even win with my money on that one.
 
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MSUCE99

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Yes plastic is cheaper. Probably because the Chinese figured out how awesome steel toys are and started hogging the world's steel, while shipping their plastic crap over here to America. Rust just adds character to badass steel toys. Plastic, on the other hand, just gets brittle from UV exposure and cracks, which should never happen to children's toys.

But in any case, your "reason" and "logic" are secondary to my points that we are no longer giving the dubmasses among us an opportunity to thin themselves from the herd via natural selection. Seatbelt laws, airbags, and GFCI breakers are further examples of how we have failed to provide appropriate off-ramps for the tail end of the Bell curve. And, to bring it back around to the Pussification of America, it is my belief that these souls, trapped in a sort of Purgatory here on earth, have conspired to give our children games where validation of the participants' feelings are what matter more than the scoreboard. Payback is a *****, indeed.
 
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PosterFormerlyKnownAsRFAA

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Nov 16, 2005
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Sometimes, if a team that is winning by a large margin, and they are still throwing the ball deep downfield, 75 is holding as soon as the ball is snapped.

That is horseshit. Simple as that.
 
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