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Post by kurtbryan on Apr 10, 2008 20:30:10 GMT -6
Coaches:  Just when things can get a little tedious in the off-season, a tad-bit too serious or heavy on web site boards...I got a great laugh today remembering some of the most Bone-Headed plays I have ever seen LIVE In PERSON. Whether it was a player on your team or your opponent's...what was a Truly Bone-Headed Play you have seen Live? One of mine: Several years ago, our staff was coaching Alameda County, in the All-Star game vs. Contra Costa County to benefit Cerebral Palsy patients. * What a treat to coach a bunch of All-Star caliber talent - truly wonderul indeed.  Anyway...one of our Game Breakers receives the kickoff and jukes and explodes down the sideline untouched for the apparent touchdown! Thousands of people in the stands screaming, but wait....the Field is one of those heavily lined ones with Yellow, White and Red stripes to denote different sports area markings. So, this wonderul kid THINKS he has already crossed the Goal Line, and while apparently Gliding across the Goal Line, he GENTLY places the Football on the Ground thinking it is time to party! HOWEVER, he had NOT crossed the Goal Line, and instead had Accidentally Put the Ball down at around the 5-yard line! Luckily, one of our guys scooped it up and walked into the End Zone with it. Are there any Jim Marshall type plays out there? .....Can't wait to read yours  |
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Post by jjkuenzel on Apr 10, 2008 22:27:58 GMT -6
I wasn't at this game, but I saw it on tape.
A team was driving for a score before the half and was moving the ball well. With about 20 seconds left they are inside the opponents 20. They had used up all of their time outs and came up short of the 1st on third down. On fourth down the QB promptly gets up to the line and well he spikes the ball. Opps
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Post by coachd5085 on Apr 10, 2008 23:54:06 GMT -6
I have one that will be tough to beat
Louisiana State Playoffs sometime in the 90's--Team A is in their first playoff game in a decade or two, playing against a semi national power (pre Katrina) Catholic School. (Team B)
Team A is a "lowly" inner city public school--Team B at the time had more players in the NFL than any H.S. in the nation.
Team A is up by 4 or 5 with seconds left in the game. One of the biggest upsets in LA prep ball history is looming. Team A is inside their own 5 yard line. After kneeling one 3 downs to use up Team B's time outs, the TEAM A qb drops back into the endzone presumably to take a safety as time expires. The horn goes off as the QB is retreating into the endzone...and upon hearing the horn, the qb throws the ball up in celebration. TEAM B alertly catches the ball in the endzone, for the winning touchdown.
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Post by tedseay on Apr 11, 2008 2:40:09 GMT -6
The horn goes off as the QB is retreating into the endzone...and upon hearing the horn, the qb throws the ball up in celebration. TEAM B alertly catches the ball in the endzone, for the winning touchdown. No more calls, we have a winner.  Seriously, that one will take some beating. |
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Post by senatorblutarsky on Apr 11, 2008 2:57:09 GMT -6
I wasn't at this game, but I saw it on tape.
A team was driving for a score before the half and was moving the ball well. With about 20 seconds left they are inside the opponents 20. They had used up all of their time outs and came up short of the 1st on third down. On fourth down the QB promptly gets up to the line and well he spikes the ball. Opps
We had this happen in a game in 2000. We were in the lead 22-14 and they were driving at the end. 3rd and goal at the 10, they threw a slant, and our CB made a nice play keeping him out of the endzone and in the field at the 3 yard line. Next play they spike it... By the way, this was a game where we had suspended 13 players.
I have one that will be tough to beat
Louisiana State Playoffs sometime in the 90's--Team A is in their first playoff game in a decade or two, playing against a semi national power (pre Katrina) Catholic School. (Team B)
Team A is a "lowly" inner city public school--Team B at the time had more players in the NFL than any H.S. in the nation.
Team A is up by 4 or 5 with seconds left in the game. One of the biggest upsets in LA prep ball history is looming. Team A is inside their own 5 yard line. After kneeling one 3 downs to use up Team B's time outs, the TEAM A qb drops back into the endzone presumably to take a safety as time expires. The horn goes off as the QB is retreating into the endzone...and upon hearing the horn, the qb throws the ball up in celebration. TEAM B alertly catches the ball in the endzone, for the winning touchdown.
Very similar to what happened last year with my alma mater. like team A above, they had a lead of 4 points or so, lined up in punt formation (again 4-5 seconds left), snapped it back to a guy who ran around until the horn sounded... then threw the ball in to the air... of course an opposing player picked up the ball and ran the 20 yards or so in to the end zone. The difference was there was an inadvertent whistle (which no one on the field heard) and after a lengthy meeting, the down was replayed.
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Post by realdawg on Apr 11, 2008 5:18:05 GMT -6
We were driving for a winning TD in a big conference game a few years ago. With just seconds left our WR get tackled in bounds at the 3. We are hurrying to the line to spike the ball to run the FG team out to kick a gimme game winner. Instead of spiking the ball however, our QB takes a knee. Even the refs were so confused a couple of them almost stopped the clock before realizing what had happened. We lost in triple OT
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Post by lawless on Apr 11, 2008 5:58:24 GMT -6
I coached a semi-pro team and we were playing a team that had not lost a game in three years. We opened with a three and out and had to punt. Their stud runs it back for a TD, but one guy got called for a block in the back on the return. We he argues with the ref and gets hit with a unsportsmanlike. Furious, he rips off his helmet and throws it down his sideline. Somehow it bounces and nails the stud baller in the leg and fractures his lower leg. No TD, Stud is gone and we went on to win by 3.
Same year, we tie a team twice 6-6 an 7-7 in regular season and we meet in playoffs. They had brought in a new QB who was great. They open with a 60+ yard drive that sputters at our 5. They kick the FG and we jumped. They take the points off the board and take the first down. New QB trots back out and they run a sprint out pass. Our DE barely catches his leg and yanks him down. Dilocated Hip. We won.
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Post by nexthc on Apr 11, 2008 6:32:19 GMT -6
Leon Lett... take your pick in which Bone Headed play he did when the played (either the Super Bowl or the snow game vs. Miami)... take your pick! lol
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2008 6:34:04 GMT -6
Had a kid at a former school who really didn't know a thing about the game, but a smalltown kid who just wanted to fit in. Bit of a wild man.
So we let him be on kickoff just to reward his efforts and make him feel good. He hustled like crazy to get down there, seldom getting in on the tackle though.
So in about the 2nd quarter one of our guys goes down with an injury and we're about to return a kick. His backup has an equipment issue. We tell our wild guy where to line up, just run back so many yards, and block the guy coming at you.
Somewhere he forgot where he was. The ball was kicked, he turns to run back to set up the return and just keeps going--all the way to our returner. Naturally nobody blocked him and he executed a perfect form tackle on our own returner, jarring the ball out. He jumps up celebrating, the other team jumps on the fumbled ball.
But it was a nice hit.
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Post by larrymoe on Apr 11, 2008 6:34:21 GMT -6
I played with a kid in college that was fast, tough, strong and dumber than a box of rocks. Nice enough kid, just dumb. Anyway, he was a freshman and really only played special teams because he didn't really grasp anything else.
It's 4th down and we're punting. He's the split out gunner on our right side. We snap the ball, get it off cleanly and it's a heck of a punt. High, long (about 60yds), just a great punt. Their returner signals for a fair catch at about the 15 as our kid is bearing down on him full speed. As he's about to catch the ball our kid arrives with a head of steam.
I know what you're thinking- "He hit the returner. That's stupid, but not that stupid. It happens all the time." Well that's not what transpired. Just as the kid is set to catch the punt, our kid cuts in front of him, jumps as high as he can and grabs the ball out of the air. Then without slowing down one step as he gets back to the ground he sprints into the endzone, spikes the ball and begins dancing wildly. EVERYONE's just staring at the kid in total stupifiedness.
Kid finally quits dancing after a couple agonizing minutes and kind of walks over to our sideline. Our D-Coordinator asks him what the heck is he doing. To which the kid replies- "DAMN! I just scored y'all a touchdown with an interception and y'all pissed off! What's a matter witch you?"
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Post by lochness on Apr 11, 2008 6:44:49 GMT -6
When I was in high school, one of my best friends (still to this day, actually) joined the team as a sophomore, but had never played football before. We were at a JV game early in the season, and we were kicking off after a TD. My buddy was on the Kickoff and Kick Return teams. Everyone is lined up for the kickoff, except my buddy, who was obviously not paying any attention, and lined up way deep as one of the FB's on the return team...
...L1...........L2........................L4..........L5..............R5..........R4........R3.........R2..........R1
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[glow=BLUE,2,300]HEY #89, WHAT THE DICKENS ARE YOU DOING, SON!?!?[/glow]
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Post by scoresalot on Apr 11, 2008 7:05:32 GMT -6
I was a frosh in high school and we were playing a J.V. game. One of our juniors, not a great player, was playing the J.V. game. We were up a couple of scores when the other team scores and we assume they are going to try an onside kick. So, of course we put our hands team in. Well this junior was in the front row of the hands team. As you can imagine, the J.V. kicker for the other team was not a very good at kicking the onside kick. Our junior catches it, it was a line drive screamer right at him. So, instead of going down with the ball like you're taught, he runs straight ahead into their wall of 7 who are coming full speed at him. Obviously with no blockers in front of him, he gets pummeled, ball goes flying, one of our guys snatch out of the air and runs it into the endzone. We celebrate, until, we see our junior player still lying on the ground. Ambulance gets called, game is canceled, he broke his ribs, punctured lungs, was in the hospital for several days. He never played football again. Talk about ups and downs of football. We experienced all of them on one play.
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Post by stouty55 on Apr 11, 2008 7:58:28 GMT -6
In college the opposing team returned the opening kick-off for what appeared to be a go ahead touchdown. However, when their returner crossed the 5 yard line he flipped the ball up into the air thinking he just crossed the goal line. Their whole team started to celebrate in the end zone when one of our players picked the ball up and took it the other way for 6. It was hilarious, all 11 of their players in one end zone and all of our's in the other. The best part was we won 28-21.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2008 8:18:00 GMT -6
A few years back at the Outback Bowl in Tampa Ron Choke...oops I mean Zook called a jet sweep 1/2 back pass, to a guy who only intermitently played qb in h.s., at the end of the game against Michigan (I think). He threw up a prayer that looked like wounded duck and maybe went 10 yards downfield instead of the deep ball it should have been.
Other than that...pretty much any other play he ever had anything to do with while at the University of Florida. I guess that pretty much sums it up!
Duece
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Post by kurtbryan on Apr 11, 2008 8:26:04 GMT -6
Most of these stories are really making for some quality reading and thanks for sharing these tidbits of humor.
KB
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Post by morris on Apr 11, 2008 8:26:56 GMT -6
The taking a safety and throwing the ball in the air happen here in one of the title games. The difference was they blew the play dead so the other team did not get the score to win.
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Post by mwpilots on Apr 11, 2008 8:55:13 GMT -6
I was coaching in Ohio at the time. We caused a fumble and one of the LB's got turned around and he picked up the ball and ran the wrong way and scored.He was one of the fastest kids in school and we could not catch him. It was raining that day, so when he gets to the endzone he slips and falls on his butt essentially making the play dead and thus a safety. I still have it on tape. It got played on ESPN back in 2003. We lost that game by 30. Ironically,the kids name was Leon.
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Post by phantom on Apr 11, 2008 9:13:16 GMT -6
This was frustration rather that dumbness: Had an offensive guy come off the bench and tackle an opposing runner once.
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Post by billyn on Apr 11, 2008 9:39:14 GMT -6
We have a check system in our punt game where by color we can run a fake. A few years ago in a tie game in the third quarter we were punting from our own twelve yard line on a fourth and 15. The upback calls a hot color for the fake inadvertently, but the numbers don't match up with anything. The long snapper hearing the hot color, but apparently not paying attention snaps it to the up back who is completely surprised, but does catch the snap. We get tackled, and the head coach has to spend the next week explaing why we faked a punt from the twelve on fourth and 15.
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Post by airman on Apr 11, 2008 13:04:26 GMT -6
most bone headed play I ever say was in the army all star game her a few years ago. hot shot shawn jackson(was a cal wr now going pro) thought he was soooo good he tried to leap into the endzone and came up short. he made several other bone head plays which hurt his team. I know I would not have wanted him on my team. I prefer rudys myself.
I understand jackson was also a pro prospect in baseball.
I guess he really did mature at cal. under tedford and mike dunbar. he has a nice looking body for a wr and you can tell he is a strider. I hope he does well in the pro's.
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Post by coachd5085 on Apr 11, 2008 19:30:39 GMT -6
One that I actually was involved in...Jr. Year..homecoming..two absolutely pathetic teams squaring off. We (Pathetic Team A) punt to the bad guys (Pathetic team B). Being pathetic means that our punter punts some ungodly end over end ball that exhibits the gyroscopic stability of a Niekro knuckle ball, and lands about 10 yards short of the returner. He lets the ball bounce and roll to a stop, whereby he then "downs" the ball by placing his hands on it...and Team B follows his lead as he runs off the field. Obviously we are less pathetic, as we pick up the "downed" ball and advance it for a tounchdown.
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Post by buchananm on Apr 11, 2008 19:38:31 GMT -6
I once sent in a kid and told him he was to play corner on the opposite side of our other corner "Joey". You guessed it, he lined up on the offensive side of the ball, but was opposite of "Joey".
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Post by towtheline on Apr 12, 2008 11:19:29 GMT -6
ok I think this might be up there as one of the best, (when I was still playing)
so we're at state and up 31-0, the coach puts in all the scrubs (including kickoff) and it just so happens that we had a foreign exchange student from South Korea and he doesn't even know what "the moving poles with the changing numbers at the top" are. So the coach puts him on the kickoff team and as soon as the refs sounded the whistle to kickoff and the kicker started to get ready to kick and as soon as that whistle blows the kid takes off down the field and gets the {censored} knocked out of him before the play has even started. He just got up and started laughing because he didn't know what was going on, and as you can imagine everyone in the stands, on both sidelines, on the field,the refs, and I'm sure at home watching on TV started laughing hysterically at what had just happened.
It ended up we didn't even get a penalty because it was so funny and the good guys ended up winning 31-0 for the schools first ever state championship and undefeated season.......
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Post by wingtol on Apr 12, 2008 16:39:25 GMT -6
We had a personal protector block one of our own punts. He was lined up on the right of the punter and they over loaded to the left, made the call to let everyone know he would help out to that side. Except he didn't move, goes to block to his left and runs right in front of the punt and ends up blocking it.
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Post by towtheline on Apr 12, 2008 16:53:59 GMT -6
I played with a kid in college that was fast, tough, strong and dumber than a box of rocks. Nice enough kid, just dumb. Anyway, he was a freshman and really only played special teams because he didn't really grasp anything else. It's 4th down and we're punting. He's the split out gunner on our right side. We snap the ball, get it off cleanly and it's a heck of a punt. High, long (about 60yds), just a great punt. Their returner signals for a fair catch at about the 15 as our kid is bearing down on him full speed. As he's about to catch the ball our kid arrives with a head of steam. I know what you're thinking- "He hit the returner. That's stupid, but not that stupid. It happens all the time." Well that's not what transpired. Just as the kid is set to catch the punt, our kid cuts in front of him, jumps as high as he can and grabs the ball out of the air. Then without slowing down one step as he gets back to the ground he sprints into the endzone, spikes the ball and begins dancing wildly. EVERYONE's just staring at the kid in total stupifiedness. Kid finally quits dancing after a couple agonizing minutes and kind of walks over to our sideline. Our D-Coordinator asks him what the heck is he doing. To which the kid replies- "DAMN! I just scored y'all a touchdown with an interception and y'all {censored} off! What's a matter witch you?" he still gets some BA points for being such a great athlete |
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Post by bighit65 on Apr 12, 2008 16:54:17 GMT -6
This is also a play done in frustration. When I was in High school we were watching film of a really bad team. They did everything you didn't want your team to do. They were fighting with each other so heatedly you could see it on film. Well, on one play the QB gets smoked due to the RB dodging the DE instead of blocking him. The next play QB rolls left with the RB in the flats. The RB sets up waiting for the ball but the QB continues to roll towards him even upfield even though he's past the line. Then he sets up and throws the ball as hard as he possibly can at the TB's face. The ball drills the RB in the face and ricochets off past the sideline it hit him so hard. Then to top it off the QB proceeds to finger point and judging by his body language is threatening the RBs life. Got to love team unity.
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Post by towtheline on Apr 12, 2008 16:57:37 GMT -6
also another story is when I was the bonehead.
we were playing an out of state back in 05 and we were completely outmatched and overwhelmed and no one had their head in the game, including myself, so we they score and we get the ball and the call in the huddle is "right 28 sweep" and then we break the huddle and start walking up to the line and I see the guy who plays TE for them line up on the right and I start calling out "roger roger roger" to tell the front 7 the strength call when suddenly I realize..................I am on offense!!! and everyone is looking at me like I had 2 heads. obviously I was completely embarrassed and no one talked to me for the rest of the game
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Post by goldenbear76 on Apr 12, 2008 18:57:38 GMT -6
This one is easy...
Our JV team was playing. Before the game, we told our punter, if we are near our own goal line, and you get a bad snap..kick it out the back of the endzone. Simple instructions pre-game..nothing fancy right? Well, the JV offense stalls at our own 20 yard line. Bad snap happens, but the punter has plenty of time to pick it up and kick it. The poor kid, turns around and kicks the ball 20 yards into the back of the endzone. He comes to the sideline like nothing is wrong haha. The JV HC says "what were you doing? why didn't you pick it up and punt it straight ahead?" the kid says.."Coach, it was a bad snap and we were close to our endzone". Of course we later explained what we meant by "close to the endzone" but that was after we spent 5 minutes trying to keep from laughing so hard.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2008 19:20:03 GMT -6
I won't be able to describe this very well; it was a had to be there thing. BUT, in a JV game, our punter received the snap at his feet, fumbled it a bit, and by then the rush was all over him.
But, instead of going down or at least trying to get a kick off, he threw the ball forward straight down the middle of the field!! One of their defenders caught it clean and ran it in for a score.
Actually, I was a little bone headed on the play too because I at first thought we were saved when I saw a flag on the ground. But, alas, it was illegal man downfield against us.
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Post by kcbazooka on Apr 12, 2008 19:40:37 GMT -6
mine doesn't top some these but kind of amusing -- JV game we are playing a private school that had recruited a number of Japanese students to their school with no playing experience. We score and our kicker miskicks but he line drives the ball to the middle man of the front five. Their man, makes a perfect catch, then drops the ball and jogs to the sideline. I truly felt kind of somewhat bad when our kids recovered the loose ball.
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