To Knee or NOT to Knee? That is the ???

No. This sounds callous, but we have a ball game to win. We will come to our sideline and meet just like the other team is doing. I don't expect the other team to take a knee when we get hurt.

I think if a kid is seriously injured (needs an ambulance or similar), a knee will just naturally happen.

that is a more that is kind of like wearing a hat inside now...

Probably a more regional thing, kind of like pulling off to the side of the road for a funeral procession.

We don’t but if it gets serious then usually kids will get together and take a knee and say a prayer for the injured player regardless of which side he is on. I wonder if prayer is the origin of the knee because I never saw it until I moved south.

I heard it came from youth soccer. Coaches would have the players take a knee if a player was injured to keep them from running around.

I heard it was a youth sport thing too

Week 3 of the 2019 season, we had a player commit a blindside block penalty and the opponent stayed down for quite some time. Our players did take a knee, but after the opponent had been on the ground a good ten minutes (he was moving his arms and legs and even sitting up, no one really knew the reason for the delay) our players got restless and started moving around and stretching. We got absolutely BLASTED on all forms of social media for not having our players stay on their knee for the duration of the injury timeout.

So, and I'll admit this isn't the best solution, we've become sarcastic with it. Every time an opponent goes down and the whistle blows, you'll hear 4-5 players and coaches immediately shout "Take a knee!" Heck, sometimes our players are just getting down and settled as the opponent is getting up to leave the field.

As others have said, I personally find it pointless, but it's a cultural expectation in a lot of places now. If you don't have the team do it, you look like an @$$.

However, while the sideline is expected to take a knee, it's still pretty standard in this area to huddle up with the kids who are on the field, get them some water, and do normal timeout stuff for a minute or two.

I have coached in places where people would go off if the team didn't take a knee, similar to carookie. And yes, we had the same kinds of people in the stands being self righteous about it.

The old Commie Kickball does it every time.