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Post by Defcord on Jan 5, 2022 15:40:47 GMT -6
My son was one of the three ball boys on our team this past season. He's pretty quiet and reserved, but he also is a defender of all his buddies. Really just a quiet kid so I was kind of surprised by the following story but it definitely made me laugh.
I am in the pressbox so I have no clue how everything actually went down.
We are playing our rivals. They are state ranked and a very good football team. We aren't. We are at their place. My son son and two other coach's kids are the other two ball boys.
My son has always been around a lockerroom or around a group of coaches or around a card game so I have always tried to talk to him about language and how words mean different things and have different impacts in different settings. I would tell him like when it's just the "dudes" you can say about anything but when it's not the guys, you need to be very respectful and use language appropriate to the setting. Even with all of this I have only heard him cuss once or twice and never directly to anyone.
At half time he comes up to me frantically and says "Dad can I please tell the guy on the chain gang to go fuckk himself?"
I was like "No...of course not!!! What the heck are you talking about?
He told me that the guy just kept yelling at the kids on the sideline and then on a long first down the chain gang guy ran into to one of his buddies.
I asked one of our guys on the field and he said that the guy kept yelling at the ball boys and some of our players for being in the way, but he hadn't seen him make physical contact with anyone.
I still got a pretty good laugh out of my son politely asking that questions.
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Post by wolverine55 on Jan 6, 2022 9:14:39 GMT -6
My story isn't as good as that, but we had a chain gang member mouthing our HC during one of our games. The final straw was when the opponent ran an RPO with an OL waaaaaay downfield on the pass. Our HC yelled, "Illegal man downfield!!" and this chain gang member turned around and yelled, "What the hell are you talking about?"
I then yelled at him asking why he was yelling at our sideline. By then, the ref was asking him to be removed. He yelled something at me like, "C'mon, man, you haven't had a chain gang guy harass you before?" I said, "Once...and he got kicked out a hell of a lot faster than you just did." Lol
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Post by bignose on Jan 6, 2022 10:12:43 GMT -6
We had a parent on a chain crew get into it with a coach from the visiting team on their sideline, where the chains were. This was maybe 15 years ago.
The County School League changed the rule, and to this day, our chain crews are located on the Home team's sideline instead of the visitor's sideline.
It's always interesting come playoff time, when the State, and NHFS rules supersede our local regulations.
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Post by larrymoe on Jan 7, 2022 6:13:38 GMT -6
My son's JFL team assigned parents a job at each home game. The past 2 years we've gotten concession stand so my wife has worked. This year we got chain gang, so I got to work.
I really wanted to be on the visiting sideline because I wasn't the biggest fan of the "daddy ball" coaching staff we had. We were not. (I should also add that I have never coached in the district my kids attend and only a handful of people know I coached any sport at all for over 20 years let alone football.)
Anyway, on one play our OL actually chose to block hard and opened a gaping hole. As usual our TB danced in the hole and only gained 3 yds. Under my breath I muttered "Damn it, run the ball." One of the dads who is friends with the TB's dad goes "He did! He gained 3 yds!"
"Yes he did, but if he'd hit a hole he'd have gained 30."
Dad- "What the hell do you know about it!"
I just giggled and walked away. The one dad who helps that knows me pulls the guy aside and talks quietly with him. The dad who yelled at me then spends the rest of the game quizzically staring at me. It was a funny situation.
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Post by coachwoodall on Jan 7, 2022 8:33:59 GMT -6
Not to derail the thread, but last year we lost our chain crew to retirement; they were a group of friends that had done all our game and also at a local college for almost 30 years... really nice to not have to hunt down a new crew every year.
Anyway last year and 1st half of the season we struggle to get people to help... at least ones you can count on to show up (had 1 MFer never show up again after we gave him the shirt & hat, and he is supposedly a 'super fan'...)
Anyway, our AD is talking with the head of officials for our area one day, and he happened to mention our dilemma, and the head official offered to man all our home games with rookie officials so they can better learn the games on varsity nights.
BOOM, problem solved.
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Post by Defcord on Jan 7, 2022 11:35:16 GMT -6
Not to derail the thread, but last year we lost our chain crew to retirement; they were a group of friends that had done all our game and also at a local college for almost 30 years... really nice to not have to hunt down a new crew every year. Anyway last year and 1st half of the season we struggle to get people to help... at least ones you can count on to show up (had 1 MFer never show up again after we gave him the shirt & hat, and he is supposedly a 'super fan'...) Anyway, our AD is talking with the head of officials for our area one day, and he happened to mention our dilemma, and the head official offered to man all our home games with rookie officials so they can better learn the games on varsity nights. BOOM, problem solved. That's pretty good problem solving. I am shocked in the official shortage era, there are enough extras to do it, but it is a tremendous idea. |
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Post by immiru on Jan 8, 2022 23:35:57 GMT -6
We were playing our crosstown rival this year when the person taking pictures on the sideline said, "hey coach he is texting". They said this to me a couple of more times, but I had a game going on, so I didn't give it a lot of thought. As a matter of fact, I thought to myself why does a player have his cell phone on the field? Sometime in the second quarter I noticed one of the chain crew signaling to players on the field the direction of our plays. I lost my mind. The opposing coach was called over and swore he didn't know anything about why (his provided) chain gang would behave that way and he and the white hat told the offender to stop. It turns out he was the one texting someone. I didn't believe it until I watched the game film and saw him not only signaling to the other team's players but could clearly see he had his cell phone out early in the game as we were on offense.
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Post by Defcord on Jan 10, 2022 11:26:11 GMT -6
We were playing our crosstown rival this year when the person taking pictures on the sideline said, "hey coach he is texting". They said this to me a couple of more times, but I had a game going on, so I didn't give it a lot of thought. As a matter of fact, I thought to myself why does a player have his cell phone on the field? Sometime in the second quarter I noticed one of the chain crew signaling to players on the field the direction of our plays. I lost my mind. The opposing coach was called over and swore he didn't know anything about why (his provided) chain gang would behave that way and he and the white hat told the offender to stop. It turns out he was the one texting someone. I didn't believe it until I watched the game film and saw him not only signaling to the other team's players but could clearly see he had his cell phone out early in the game as we were on offense. That's nuts. I will give the guy some credit. There's times we struggle to get our signals in with the band playing and offensive shifts and substitutions, etc. |
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Post by tog on Jan 21, 2022 15:33:41 GMT -6
about 20 years ago I was the ol coach at a small town outside of Bryan College Station We had a wr coach that played wr at Ohio State in his first year of coaching, even though he was like 50 at the time. anyhow, I was the ol guy so I was wayyyy down on the end so I could see, and this guy was our signaller. Mid series sometime in 2nd quarter he says "I can't take this schiitt any MORE" threw his headset on the ground and wandered off to I don't know where. OC in box asks me if I know the signals, I said sure, but they might be my plays (sort of joking there, me and oc great buds) we finish the game out go to work that weekend, and the guy walks in like nothing happened ok let's move on about 3 weeks later after a jv game we were all hanging around the office, and he got up the first one to leave comes back in like 30 seconds later and asks the HC if he could borrow his truck because his didn't start hc was like ok we don't see him for a week or two at all, not at school to teach, not at practice, nothin one of those weekends working, and our hc office which is attached to ours ---hc gets a phone call "no kidding" "really" "dang" we were in the office all just listening waiting for what this story was he comes in and say yall ain't gonna believe this what coach they found him oh yeah, where was he he's in jail we were all shocked and amazed. wow. What for? crack CRACK!  !?! yep about this time my oc (a first rate smart ass) askes with a sly grin "where's your truck?" hc---he sold it for crack they found it in the lake with a bunch of bullet holes in it we laughed and laughed about once or twice a year I still text up the hc and ask him if I can borrow his truck nuts the wr coach btw cleaned things up and is doing ok now, retired. |
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Post by tog on Jan 21, 2022 15:40:38 GMT -6
another one
jv game
their kor team has a big fat kid on the front line, like obvious can't field a ball kind of kid
I tell the kicker to kick it at the fat kid
he trots on out there and promply kicks it right at their sideline about 5 yards downfield.
I was pissed.
What the heck was that?
coach
look
and there he was, a WAYYYYYY bigger fat kid.
My fault kicker, I should have been more specific.
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Post by blb on Jan 21, 2022 16:15:25 GMT -6
about 20 years ago I was the ol coach at a small town outside of Bryan College Station We had a wr coach that played wr at Ohio State in his first year of coaching, even though he was like 50 at the time. anyhow, I was the ol guy so I was wayyyy down on the end so I could see, and this guy was our signaller. Mid series sometime in 2nd quarter he says "I can't take this schiitt any MORE" threw his headset on the ground and wandered off to I don't know where. OC in box asks me if I know the signals, I said sure, but they might be my plays (sort of joking there, me and oc great buds) we finish the game out go to work that weekend, and the guy walks in like nothing happened ok let's move on about 3 weeks later after a jv game we were all hanging around the office, and he got up the first one to leave comes back in like 30 seconds later and asks the HC if he could borrow his truck because his didn't start hc was like ok we don't see him for a week or two at all, not at school to teach, not at practice, nothin one of those weekends working, and our hc office which is attached to ours ---hc gets a phone call "no kidding" "really" "dang" we were in the office all just listening waiting for what this story was he comes in and say yall ain't gonna believe this what coach they found him oh yeah, where was he he's in jail we were all shocked and amazed. wow. What for? crack CRACK!  !?! yep about this time my oc (a first rate smart ass) askes with a sly grin "where's your truck?" hc---he sold it for crack they found it in the lake with a bunch of bullet holes in it we laughed and laughed about once or twice a year I still text up the hc and ask him if I can borrow his truck nuts the wr coach btw cleaned things up and is doing ok now, retired. Wow Just - wow. |
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Post by tog on Jan 24, 2022 15:13:51 GMT -6
 not quite as funny, and would probably get someone fired today but I had a lb/fb kid that went to state in powerlifting 2 times he ran down on the first kickoff of the game and completely caved in a facemask like the above I was there helping the dc as his huddle goalie and the lb came up to me bleeding from his nose and his face mask all caved in dc yells at me---wtf he broke his nose and helmet coach crusty old dc--helll, i'll fix that he grabs another kid to go play lb, comes over and tweaks the broken nose looks at the kids behind him, takes the helmet from a ROY (rest of yall) that never played jammed it on the bad ass kid and sent him back out kid missed one play |
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Post by CoachMikeJudy on Jan 28, 2022 9:28:54 GMT -6
My son was one of the three ball boys on our team this past season. He's pretty quiet and reserved, but he also is a defender of all his buddies. Really just a quiet kid so I was kind of surprised by the following story but it definitely made me laugh. I am in the pressbox so I have no clue how everything actually went down. We are playing our rivals. They are state ranked and a very good football team. We aren't. We are at their place. My son son and two other coach's kids are the other two ball boys. My son has always been around a lockerroom or around a group of coaches or around a card game so I have always tried to talk to him about language and how words mean different things and have different impacts in different settings. I would tell him like when it's just the "dudes" you can say about anything but when it's not the guys, you need to be very respectful and use language appropriate to the setting. Even with all of this I have only heard him cuss once or twice and never directly to anyone. At half time he comes up to me frantically and says "Dad can I please tell the guy on the chain gang to go fuckk himself?" I was like "No...of course not!!! What the heck are you talking about? He told me that the guy just kept yelling at the kids on the sideline and then on a long first down the chain gang guy ran into to one of his buddies. I asked one of our guys on the field and he said that the guy kept yelling at the ball boys and some of our players for being in the way, but he hadn't seen him make physical contact with anyone. I still got a pretty good laugh out of my son politely asking that questions. haha. Sounds like your son goes to the same school of manners as mine lol. Had my kid on the sideline this year as a ball boy. Playing a rival whose fans are...well, a "tough crowd" to say the least. We are about to go into halftime and they heave it up, ball gets tipped in the air and a WR from the other hash catches the tipped ball and goes 60 for a TD. Mind you they are still losing by 14...As we're jogging off the field to the locker room one of their fans yells "how'd you like that, coach?" and before I could even blink my 12yr old screams "Eat $hit you old fart" COMPLETLEY SILENCED THE PEANUT GALLERY. I had to tell him to calm down and not to talk to these idiots. He said "I was going to tell him to go f*** himself but Nana (his grandmother) might hear me..." Sure was glad he didn't say what was really on his mind lol. |
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Post by bignose on Jan 28, 2022 11:07:48 GMT -6
Saw this on the sideline of a game I was scouting:
The chain yard marker was one of the older models, essentially a metal circular bullseye on the end of a metal pole with no padding around the edges.
A player ran into it, the kid holding it didn't have enough sense to drop as the ball carrier approached him.
It swung downwards like a guillotine as it glanced off of a players helmet and hit him directly in the neck.
The clanging sound was dreadful.
I fully expected to see this kid decapitated, it was that bad!
He was stunned, but uninjured. I'm sure he had quite the mark on his neck the next day.
One of the scariest things I saw on a football field
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Post by coachandrewhvincent on Apr 13, 2023 9:41:16 GMT -6
I was DC at a school that was ranked #1 in the state, we hadn't played but 1 competitive game all year to this point. It's week 10 and we are playing a school that is 0-9 at the time and would drop football the next year. During pregame, I noticed the opposed HC teaching linemen how to get into a 3pt stance (its week 10).
Well anyways, the sideline story is this. We see one of their players start a fight in his own HUDL, storm off the field screaming at his coach, then giving everyone the double bird on the way to the locker room. He goes into the locker room, changes from his football pants to his jeans, but pulls his jersey off his shoulder pads to keep wearing it. He walks over to our sideline because his uncle is on the chain gang. Taps me on the shoulder and tells me "Coach yall run it up on them MFers, they trippin!" We won 77-0, trying not to run it up.
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