The most absurd thing you have encountered??

While at an away game, before the game, one of our slappy coaches comes out of the back of the bus zipping up his pants.......... with the (female) bus driver sitting in the back of the bus.....


Later turns out that this coach and another slappy got into a [jealous]competition with this same (in-season assigned) bus driver.


also, seen a 1-man sled made out of used car parts........ no, I'm not kidding.

When I was playing, we played a game that was in the backyard of a subdivision. The field was nowhere near regulation, and wasn't painted. The only thing painted was the endzones and the 50. The refs had to guess where the kickoff should take place at.

Same game, we got chased to the bus by a bunch of thugs with knifes. The coaches tried to get between them, but we all ran to the bus.

A friend of mine had to give up his practice field and practice on the baseball field on a Wednesday so that the powder puff game could use the field.

Ahh.. the old car hood shled.. nothing like it.. who would think that Terry Bradshaw would allow that to go on at his alma mater?

Coaches

About 5 years ago while i was still in Florida, we had a HC at 1 of our district rivals get caught soliciting gay sex in a public park next to his school. He stepped down & his OC became HC. The day of our game several months later I walk into our HC office. He is on the phone rolling his eyes & motions me to sit down. Turns out he was on the phone with the local paper asking him to comment on a breaking story. Our rivals new HC was arrested for child porn on his school computer. He was sleeping with a 16 y/o cheerleader(he was 35) taking pictures & sending them to other faculty & coaches. This was 4 hours before our game.

He wound up marrying the girl the day of her 17th birthday. She was pregnant with his child, marrying her was his way of avoiding the rape charges. He was fired, 2 other coaches were fired for having the pictures on their computer.

The night of the game was rather surreal. Their fans who usually were very vocal came in silent & with vacant stares. They were missing 3 of their coaches. The players were like zombies, barely able to function. We called the dogs off very early, still it was ugly.

Joe

Back in 2004, we played a mid-season non-conference game against a school about three hours away. This school was one class larger than us and was a perennial power. We had our work cut off for ourselves.

Anyway, during the JV game, we had one of our kids sustain a neck injury. It was at that point when we realized that this school didn't have an ambulance at home games. Once our trainers realized that it was a fairly serious situation with the player, they actually had to call 911 to get medical attention.

It took about 30 minutes for the ambulance to get to the field after the call was made (nearest hospital was about 10 miles away). So, for about 40 minutes, a player with a potentially serious neck injury was laying on the field with no real medical attention.

The boy ended up being OK (had a bad shoulder stinger) and we actually won the varsity game in a huge upset, but, to this day, it still shocks me that such a prominent program would not have immediate medical care available for a high school football game.

Our field had H-posts so we could have soccer and rugby and football all sharing a field throughout the year, and coach sent out his painting crew for the year to go make the lines. The carefully measure 32.5 yds off the post, then 32.5 yards off the post, then make 2 beautiful sidelines, one soccer net too wide. We repainted the lines and pretended they were there to keep players and fans from getting too close.

Current team, our 5-team league has a team that gets to exclusively practice on the univ. field where we have our games, all pretty with fieldturf and everything. the other 3 get fields with posts and proper room, we get the outfield of an undersized baseball field. Then we argue with the men`s baseball team over our right to practice in the public park (not a scheduling conflict, they were concerned about their precious practice field) Then the youth baseball team has a game, so we pile into every van, car or trunk we can find and practice on a player`s front yard (God bless dairy farmers). We find another park, with no field but a little flat clearing and we practice there for the rest of the season. For kicking, we use the crossbar of the swings and have two kids stand in a creek to retrieve the balls.

Brand new rival school that obviously had been build with lots of different government contracts and noone taking the holistic approach. The school was in a big valley, then they dug their field down until they hit good hard clay so they could install cheap bleachers on the slope into the field, then they couldn`t figure out why the field was hard as stone with no grass and why every time we got rain it flooded to field 3 feet deep.

Chattahoochee High School, Chattahoochee, Florida circa 2002, huge fire-ant beds dotting the field... One of the goal lines was painted around one of the ant beds.

This is just a general one that I am sure many of us out there have to endure due to lack of security or the general layout of your field/stadium....

The ability of parents/grandparents/girlfriends/"experts from the stands" to have direct access to the players and coaches right after, or in some cases, during the game before we have even left the field or made it to the locker room.

What boogles my mind is when there is a cop or two standing there watching a parent berate a coach or player and does nothing and the second a coach responds you are on the next board agenda and make the front page of the paper

An assistant coach yelling at our QB to throw to our uncovered WR...and the opposing team wasn't one of deaf players.

I played a Semi Pro game in Tijuana Mexico. We show up to the field and see a dirt lot looking field. Before the game we paid local kids to collect the rocks and broken glass off the field. We gave them 10 cents per rock and or glass it cost us like $25-$30 dollars at the same time they where lining the field using a coffee can on a stick. To top it all off the Umpire used the old fashion Polio crutches to move around.

A few years back I went to catch a high school game of my nephew's.

I knew that the head coach was the worst high school coach I have ever seen and I have seen and played for my share of bad coaches.

Anyway they are playing their rival so my nephew's team is playing pretty hard and are staying in the game, they are trailing 8-0 in the first half and recover a fumble in good field position, I am thinking great, they score here and they have a chance in this game.

Time is running out in the half, they have all their time outs remaining.

First play illegal motion.

Second play, replay 1st down, a run, tackled in bounds clock is running no time out called.

Third play, 2nd down, they take forever to get the play and personnel on the field, clock is running, get a delay of game penalty.

Fourth play, replay 2nd down, try and run a pass play and get sacked, don't call time out, but now the other team does to try and get the ball back.

Fifth play 3rd down, get sacked again, other team calls time out.

6th play, 4th down, line up for punt but don't have the right personnel on the field. Now they call time out, but still only have 10 men on the punt team, I am screaming at the top of my lungs from the stands that there are only 10 on the field and there are like 6 seconds left in the half, they snap the ball, punt gets blocked, the other team recovers and scores and go up 16-0 at the half.

I left.

I think they got beat 48-0

He must have been a very likable theif.