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Post by fantom on May 19, 2015 19:21:43 GMT -6
Yeah, I'm old enough to remember Art Linkletter. I know that there are other threads like this but they're a few pages back and, well, I'm lazy. We had a kid say something hilarious today and just wanted to share it.
After weights today a couple of kids were in the office just shooting the breeze. One was a kid who had played as a freshman but not last year because he was getting migraines and they couldn't rule out post-concussion syndrome. They didn't think so but couldn't say so definitively so he didn't play and we agreed.
We asked him how much he weighed and when he said 325 we were all shocked because we all thought that he'd lost weight. He's not sloppy at all. He looks good He said that that's why he didn't wrestle, since the coach didn't think he could ever make weight.
He said that he thought that the coach was wrong. He said that as a freshman he'd taken just a lemon and an orange to school for lunch and lost 30 pounds pretty quickly. Then he mumbled matter of factly, "Passed out now and then but....".
That broke us up. This is a diet that I will not be trying.
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Post by WingTheT on May 19, 2015 19:45:27 GMT -6
He said that he thought that the coach was wrong. He said that as a freshman he'd taken just a lemon and an orange to school for lunch and lost 30 pounds pretty quickly. Then he mumbled matter of factly, "Passed out now and then but....". That broke us up. This is a diet that I will not be trying. I can easily see this happening.... (Teacher during class) *Kid passes out* Teacher: "Oh my gosh, what just happe....oh wait, was that <insert name here>?" Classmate: "Yep, don't worry, it's just the lemons....he'll come around soon enough."
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Post by racehorse on May 30, 2015 10:36:50 GMT -6
Had a player transfer in from out of state. When we started practice he found out that we were going to run some no huddle offense. He got a funny look on his face and said, "if we are running a no huddle offense, does that mean we will be running a no huddle defense too?"
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Post by realdawg on May 30, 2015 11:02:56 GMT -6
Spring practice Thursday. Young kid. We are working cut drills on bags. He cuts the crap out of the bag and then wraps it in his arm and start rolling on the ground. I say "great effort! But you can't wrap your arm around the guy like that" he looks at me and says "really?!?!" Yeah really I say, it's a penalty. It is? He says. Yeah it's called holding I say. Oh he says. I thought it was just grabbing ahold of them and keeping them on the ground. Yes I say. That's what it is but you can't do that on offense!
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Post by coachnicholson on May 30, 2015 13:10:44 GMT -6
Anyone ever had a kid line up in a 3 point stance at Linebacker? I've had this experience a couple of times and it took everything in me not to bust out laughing.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2015 13:49:45 GMT -6
No, but I've had plenty of kids try to play DT in a 2 point stance.
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Post by tango on May 30, 2015 15:56:44 GMT -6
Kid asked Friday if the 100 pound dumbbell was a 100 on both ends or 50.
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Post by toke on May 30, 2015 17:06:53 GMT -6
Anyone ever had a kid line up in a 3 point stance at Linebacker? I've had this experience a couple of times and it took everything in me not to bust out laughing. I once had a CB line up in a 3 point stance.
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Post by natenator on May 30, 2015 17:45:06 GMT -6
Kid asked Friday if the 100 pound dumbbell was a 100 on both ends or 50. Hahahahahahahaha
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Post by fantom on May 30, 2015 18:42:25 GMT -6
Kid asked Friday if the 100 pound dumbbell was a 100 on both ends or 50. Actually, I can see it. It does say "50" on both sides.
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Post by John Knight on May 30, 2015 20:08:24 GMT -6
We had a guy come out as a senior when I played. He had never played football or any other sport. He molded his mouthpiece to his bottom teeth. When he was gagging in practice my dad, the line coach ask what was wrong. When he pulled it out to talk Dad busted out laughing. Then we all lost it.
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Post by shocktroop34 on May 30, 2015 21:54:59 GMT -6
We had a guy come out as a senior when I played. He had never played football or any other sport. He molded his mouthpiece to his bottom teeth. When he was gagging in practice my dad, the line coach ask what was wrong. When he pulled it out to talk Dad busted out laughing. Then we all lost it. Gotta love it. Stuff you just can't make up...
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Post by fantom on May 30, 2015 22:13:33 GMT -6
We had a guy come out as a senior when I played. He had never played football or any other sport. He molded his mouthpiece to his bottom teeth. When he was gagging in practice my dad, the line coach ask what was wrong. When he pulled it out to talk Dad busted out laughing. Then we all lost it. That's funny. I'll bet we all have stories about new kids who had no idea how to put their gear on. When I was a freshman, in 1967, we wore holster-style hip pads that you strapped on under your pants. It was 50/50 whether a kid would put it on backwards.
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Post by blb on May 31, 2015 5:47:06 GMT -6
One year we were passing out helmet decals, which were our school's nickname in script (or cursive if you prefer).
One kid looks at his pair and says, "Hey, coach - you gave me two 'lefts'!"
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Post by kcbazooka on May 31, 2015 5:52:11 GMT -6
We had a guy come out as a senior when I played. He had never played football or any other sport. He molded his mouthpiece to his bottom teeth. When he was gagging in practice my dad, the line coach ask what was wrong. When he pulled it out to talk Dad busted out laughing. Then we all lost it. That's funny. I'll bet we all have stories about new kids who had no idea how to put their gear on. When I was a freshman, in 1967, we wore holster-style hip pads that you strapped on under your pants. It was 50/50 whether a kid would put it on backwards.
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Post by kcbazooka on May 31, 2015 5:52:54 GMT -6
i was one of those kids...
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Post by fantom on May 31, 2015 7:15:11 GMT -6
i was one of those kids... Me too.
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Post by kcbazooka on May 31, 2015 7:27:51 GMT -6
made more sense to cover up my dinglewanger rather than my tailbone...
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Post by tango on May 31, 2015 16:59:12 GMT -6
A few years ago, why is slush water cold? Blank stair. Coach it's just like ice water.
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Post by rbrown5 on May 31, 2015 20:03:45 GMT -6
I had a kid my first year coaching. We were handing out equipment. I handed a helmet without ear pads. He looked at me and said "you got anymore of them ear dillies?" If you couldn't tell I'm from the south. But I still lost it!!
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Post by tango on May 31, 2015 20:23:24 GMT -6
Why is everyone saying Merry Christmas and it's still Christmas Eve. They know the clock has not struck one yet.
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Post by coachwoodall on Jun 5, 2015 13:51:17 GMT -6
Anyone ever had a kid line up in a 3 point stance at Linebacker? I've had this experience a couple of times and it took everything in me not to bust out laughing. It had a CB do it, in a game.......
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Post by dytmook on Jun 5, 2015 16:01:20 GMT -6
I had a kid play most of the season with paper towels in for his ear pads. We asked him why and he said he lost the other and acted like it wasn't a big deal...
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Post by bignose on Jun 5, 2015 16:16:29 GMT -6
Many years ago, we are scrimmaging for the first time in the season. The official throws a flag and explained that we have a lineman illegally downfield on a pass play. Our left tackle. So we asked the kid what possessed him to go downfield on a pass play. "Uhh, coach you called for a "sixty six" pass and that's my number! Oh, {censored}, I'm sixty seven!"
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Post by John Knight on Jun 6, 2015 2:20:20 GMT -6
First year of coaching jr high. We did normal static stretching back in those days and I let the captains handle it. I walk down to my troops just as they start their Tiger Jacks and I look at one of the kids in the front row, a starter and he doesn't have a helmet on. I said Bucket head (his nickname was really buckethead jr) where is your helmet? He looked up like he had no idea it was even missing and then he looked at me, shrugged and went palms up! I said you better find it, quick!
He ran to the bus and there it was right where he had left it.
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Post by 3rdandlong on Jun 7, 2015 22:53:02 GMT -6
We are on defense and the opponent wants to kill the clock to beat us. We stop them and call a timeout with about 2:05 left on the clock. During the timeout, I tell our kids to call a timeout right after we stop them on the next play. A kid looks at me like I'm an idiot and says: "coach, why are we gonna waste a timeout? We have the 2 minute warning coming up!!!" I couldn't help but laugh even though we were in a critical situation.
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Post by fantom on Jun 8, 2015 7:58:10 GMT -6
I couldn't help but laugh even though we were in a critical situation. Why not? It's a game. It's fun.
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