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Post by thurman on Jan 25, 2006 21:25:08 GMT -6
What is the weirdest thing you have ever encountered during an away game?
A good buddy of mine told me one time about going to a school to play a game.. and they had one of the old shorter tracks.. Maybe 300m..
Well the turns cut through the endzones.. and there was literally a concrete rail that cured around the back outside of the endzone.. AND THEY PLAYED ON IT!!!
I know some of you will be like yea right.. Just like I was.. until he brought me the tape.. I will get it from him and put some footage on here within the week..
He also told me about a baseball field with a tree in the middle of the outfield. I wouldnt normally believe this.. but I doubted him on the other one.. soo...
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Post by ralphieparker on Jan 25, 2006 21:32:36 GMT -6
Game field where one corner of the endzone was at least 3' higher than the rest of the field. The kicker is there was a chain link fence that bordered it and was maybe 6" from the endline/sideline. The home team was great at running the fade to that corner.
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Post by cc on Jan 25, 2006 21:57:34 GMT -6
Well this is not field related, but just weird.
Had a kid come up to me in the 1st Q asking if he could go to the bathroom. I said hell no (we needed him to play) and to not worry about it it was just nerves. Anyways, at half time he says coach I really gotta go so I told him to hurry up and go do it then.
Anyways like 10 minutes later this pissed off guy in a suit comes over asking for a coach. What happened was the kid could not get into the visiting teams school so he ducked into a nearby bush to do... A #2 !!! I thought he just had a #1 feeling. Anyways, where does he do this??? Just outside the Principals office. Who of course sees him and I guess came out yelling holy hell at the poor kid....
So the principal made him clean it up and then come to me to explain what the hell he was thinking....
Thats why they call him Crappy from then on...
Man I almost forgot about that story...
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Post by thurman on Jan 25, 2006 22:07:50 GMT -6
I know some of you are not realizing the shocking value of this.. lol.. Im talking a 3 inch high concrete rail running through the endzone in all for corners where the kids are trying to go score.. You have to wonder if someone ever got hurt.. And it wasnt just the very back.. it was probably 3-4 foot from the very corners of the endzone.. I couldnt believe it..
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Post by Coach Shane on Jan 25, 2006 22:33:04 GMT -6
Coach here in Los angeles 2 high schools have the same problem and then some. I had a friend get hurt on it when I played it was ugly.
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Post by firebird on Jan 25, 2006 22:46:21 GMT -6
I had a backup DL this year come up to me at the end of the first quarter of the last game of the year. "Coach, they're freaking me out out there!!!!""Why, what' wrong?""They have this guy lined right up behind the center""It's okay" (trying not to laugh) "That's just the quarterback."And this was the LAST GAME OF THE SEASON?!  ! Not necessarily the strangest thing (I did have a guy come to practice with girdle on backwards so his thigh pads were on his hamstrings), but just another in a long list of strange things that happened this season. |
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Post by cc on Jan 25, 2006 23:39:19 GMT -6
Well how many times do you have kids wearing their tailpad in front of their d# k ? That one always cracks me up. Dang rookies... |
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Post by thurman on Jan 26, 2006 1:28:29 GMT -6
We always have morons who come out with out the butt pads.. and they have cracked down pretty hard here.. They will make you leave the game if you do not have one in.. So we bring several with us in our dummy bags.. and most of them will just stick them down the back of their pants.. We always have 1 or 2 with them ending up on one hamstring or the other.. funniest dang thing..
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Post by brophy on Jan 26, 2006 7:52:49 GMT -6
Last year, I'm on the sidelines in the 3rd qtr waiting for the defense to go out and I hear the kids laughing and making a commotion behind me, so I turn around. I look at our nose tackle who has this blissfully relieved grin on his face......"Coach.....I just peed.....LOOK![/]"as he points to a puddle at his feet......
no comment.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2006 8:15:30 GMT -6
Tree in the middle of the outfield? Don't the Houston Astros have that as well? ;D Weirdest thing I've seen was a game during my senior year of high school. The lights went out at halftime and delayed the game by 15-20 minutes. The referees came up and said they were thinking about having cars line the field with their headlights on. Our head coach busted up laughing at the obvious joke only to be told it wasn't a joke! Luckily, the field lights turned back on a few minutes later.
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Post by banditgsk on Jan 26, 2006 8:32:32 GMT -6
We played at a place that did not have any facilities. Our running back had to go #1 really bad...he was bending over trying to hold it. No place anywhere to go, so coach made us get in a circle in the middle of the field with our backs toward the middle, two players deep. Coach told him to get in the middle and hurry up with his relief. Peed right in the middle of the field.
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Post by jet on Jan 26, 2006 8:43:11 GMT -6
During one of our games the sprinkler system came on and soaked everybody
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Post by Rooster on Jan 26, 2006 8:46:48 GMT -6
We have done the circle bathroom alot at scrimmages and at one school we play at everyyear, they dont have a locker room for us we just meet behind our stands and the parents know not to look behind. shoot, our old coach tells the kids to circle around him. LOL needless to say we are in the country.
A few years ago a school near us got a new coach, and it was during the preseason and they were conditioning. the kids were not running as hard as they should. he yells at them to sprint to the end of the field and everykid has to grab a leaf and run back.... like 90% of them grabbed poison oak. I cant remember if they canceled their first game or two because of the kids were covered... coach is no longer there.........LOL
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Post by homeoftheo on Jan 26, 2006 8:53:27 GMT -6
We have this waterboy who has Downs Syndrome. A few years agoe we were playing a game and getting it handed to us quite bad.
All of a sudden we hear this commotion behind us of the waterboy screaming and yelling. We turn to look at him and he is pointing at the field.
We couldn't figure out what the deal was--well anyways there was a moth on the field and he didn't want it to get hurt.
He told the HC to go "save the butterfly"
Another one of his classics is to not ffer water to the players if there has been a couple of time-outs relatively close to each other stating "they all ready had a drink"
Makes me chuckle everytime I think of him.
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Post by aznando on Jan 26, 2006 9:54:06 GMT -6
Probably the weirdest thing that happend to me was when I was playing in San Diego, we were playing at Lincoln High and our benches are close to the stands. There are only a few row of seats in the stands and behind that was this alley. Now this school is in a pretty bad neighborhood and they don't play night games, so we didn't have alot of people on our sideline. Well in the middle of the game like 8 Cop Cars and a SWAT van come pulling into the alley to bust into a crackhouse. People our shouting and cussing as they are getting arrested just a few yards from us. Needless to say it was hard for us to stay focused with that happening behind us.
Aznando
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Post by akins96 on Jan 26, 2006 11:24:45 GMT -6
In high school, we played a team that used the outfield of the baseball field as the football field. In the left corner of one endzone there was a light pole about five feet from the side and five feet from the back IN the endzone! They did have the decency to wrap the pole with a pad, but the home team actually had a play where the receiver would use the pole to set a screen!
Bunn High School, Bunn, North Carolina circa 1988 for any of you fact-checkers out there.
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Post by donaldduck on Jan 26, 2006 12:34:15 GMT -6
We always have morons who come out with out the butt pads.. and they have cracked down pretty hard here.. They will make you leave the game if you do not have one in.. So we bring several with us in our dummy bags.. and most of them will just stick them down the back of their pants.. We always have 1 or 2 with them ending up on one hamstring or the other.. funniest dang thing.. When I was in 8th grade, we told a 7th grader that the jock goes on the "other" way, so it will catch when you get the $*** knocked out of you. He was walking around with just his backward jock on for a good 10 minutes when the coach came out of the office and asked what he was doing. |
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Post by knighter on Jan 26, 2006 14:30:38 GMT -6
Freshmen that has never played FB before to me
"Coach my weiner pad is not comfortable."
Me
"What? You mean your jock?"
Him
"No coach, my weiner pad." pulling down pants to show me
Me
"That is a butt pad, your girdle goes the other way!" (all while holding back my laughter and tears....funniest thing EVER)
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Post by smalls on Jan 26, 2006 15:59:40 GMT -6
My dad (who also coaches) was in in first year as a head coach in a small town that hadn't had much success. At half time of the first home game one of his players asked to use the restroom. Since the shed they were in did not have plumbing he sent the kid out to the porta-johns were everyone else went. As half time rolls along, my dad goes to ask this kid a question and the kid isn't back yet. Not knowing what to think, my dad sends one of his assistants after the kid. As the team is getting ready to take the field the assistant returns with the lost player. Turns out that the kid was still politely waiting in line to use the bathroom. From that point on my dad told the kids that they have the right to cut in line if they need to go and after that year he made sure there were facilities in the shed for halftime.
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Post by coachmacplains on Jan 26, 2006 21:34:06 GMT -6
One of our opponents' FB field is next to a golf course. I decided to play there this past summer and discovered that the end of the field beyond the goal post is a part of the 7th fairway! If you hit onto the field, it is OB. If it comes to rest on the track surrounding the field, you can take relief with no penalty. I'll never look at it the same again  |
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Post by coachy on Jan 26, 2006 21:49:54 GMT -6
We played a JV game in the "economically challenged" part of Austin Texas. On their side of the field sat a mom. I bet she weighed at least 375lbs. Every play we ran she would scream at the top of her lungs....."TACKLE THAT MOTHERFU#@er".
I bet we heard it 40 times that night.
I don't know about you but I thought that was freakin' funny.
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Post by airman on Jan 26, 2006 21:56:51 GMT -6
i was in high school and we were playing a team. my friend was a dlineman and he got hit in the private area.
well he comes running off the field in pain. he starts to strip right in front of everyone. one of the girl trainers is standing right there trying to acess the situation.
here is jock strap had folded over and was cutting off the unit and a testical. I have never seen a young girl turn so beat read as I did my classmate.
my favorite moment was went on of my rec ran a post pattern and well hit the goal post. he held on the the ball though.
this is not a football story be related. when I was in h.s. we had are annual physcial. they would put 5 guys to a room grades 7 to 12. you know when the doctor tells you to drop your pants, turn your head and cough. well this poor 8th grader got so excited and I use the term excited in a certain way. the doctor took out his pen and gave the unit a wack and well he was no longer excited.
I had a player come off all mad. I asked him what was wrong. he said this" coach, they are saying bad things about my mother out there and I want a apology, my mother does not like black guys, she likes hispanic guys, I want them to take it back, I am going to tell my mama." he was great player but very behind emotionally and maturity wise.
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Post by mncoach72 on Jan 26, 2006 22:37:23 GMT -6
When I was playing college ball we had a team down by 10 with about a minute left. All we had to do was get a first down and the game was over. So on 3rd and 2 we run a outside stretch. All I remember was getting the first down and then seeing the other team laughing. I couldn't believe it, we had just put the nail in the coffin and they think it's funny. Well turns out on the tackle, our RB's pants ripped on the back and all you could see was a big white ass. The best thing about it was the RB tried to leave the game and went to our header to explain the situation. Only problem was we were so depleted by injuries he was our last RB. Coach told him I don't have anybody else. So for what I can imagine the longest minute of the RB life he has to be on the field in front of the whole crowd bare assed. Just Classic, especially if you knew the kid.
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Post by kcbazooka on Jan 30, 2006 18:47:00 GMT -6
ok, I want to preface this by saying no one got seriously hurt - but it may have been the funniest thing I've ever seen related to football. My second year of coaching (FDR may have been president) I was a freshmen coach up in a chicago suburb. The school was having its first pep rally of the year and the varsity team was introduced. The head coach had them run a play for the pep rally. And it definately wasn't fullback right. The kids ran a reverse pass. Beautiful execution, beautiful pass except the the ball went a little too far. The receiver ran (without pads) ran smack dab into the wall at the far end of the gym before he caught the ball. Again the kid was not hurt but the crowd started laughing and the assistant coaches had to bite their lip to stop from giggling. May have been an omen of things to come as the varsity went 1-9 that year...
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Post by jimbohale on Jan 30, 2006 21:02:32 GMT -6
We played a JV game in the "economically challenged" part of Austin Texas. On their side of the field sat a mom. I bet she weighed at least 375lbs. Every play we ran she would scream at the top of her lungs....."TACKLE THAT MOTHERFU#@er". I bet we heard it 40 times that night. I don't know about you but I thought that was freakin' funny. Coach..this is funny stuff! Being from the north Georgia mountains, it's easy for me to get a good visual of this taking place. Haha...good stuff! |
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Post by jimbohale on Jan 30, 2006 21:12:04 GMT -6
In 1998, I was just out of the military and working as a volunteer WR coach at a high school near Athens, Ga. The school I was coaching at was in the middle of a (near state record) losing streak and was pitiful.
Anyway, just before halftime during one our games, I look down at the sideline (I was in the pressbox) becuase of a small commotion going on at our bench. It was two of OUR OWN players fist fighting each other on the sideline. Needless to say, the bench cleared (of course, it was our own bench) and we had about a 20-25 player brawl going on between our own players. After the fight was broke up, about half the fans left, disgusted. At the time, it was very embarrassing, however looking back, it was pretty darn funny as well.
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Post by wildcat on Jan 30, 2006 21:48:36 GMT -6
My dad (who also coaches) was in in first year as a head coach in a small town that hadn't had much success. At half time of the first home game one of his players asked to use the restroom. Since the shed they were in did not have plumbing he sent the kid out to the porta-johns were everyone else went. As half time rolls along, my dad goes to ask this kid a question and the kid isn't back yet. Not knowing what to think, my dad sends one of his assistants after the kid. As the team is getting ready to take the field the assistant returns with the lost player. Turns out that the kid was still politely waiting in line to use the bathroom. From that point on my dad told the kids that they have the right to cut in line if they need to go and after that year he made sure there were facilities in the shed for halftime. smalls - That's a classic...you have to love kids like that! |
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Post by utchuckd on Jan 30, 2006 22:41:03 GMT -6
This isn't funny weird, but still the weirdest I have seen. A few years ago while I was a middle school coach we were helping the varsity on Friday night. We had just gotten a new head coach and staff and it was their second game. Anyway, we go into halftime to do halftime stuff, and HC starts going off. I think he was just trying to show some emotion, but he picks up a helmet and slings it against the wall. Rants a little more,picks up another helmet and tries to throw it against the wall. Not sure how it happened, but he throws the helmet and it hits the star FB in the head. The fallout was not pretty- suspensions, lawsuits, eventual firing. It was pretty ugly.
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Post by lochness on Jan 31, 2006 5:41:38 GMT -6
All that stuff is well and good... but this is definitely the weirdest thing I'VE ever seen:  |
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Post by groundchuck on Jan 31, 2006 6:39:15 GMT -6
I asked a player once about the nasty scar on his forehead. He told me one day a couple years ago he as messing around behind one of the horses in the barn. The horse got spooked and kicked him in the head sending him flying back against the wall. When the kid got up he said he punched the horse and knocked him down. Other kids verify the story as eye wittnesses. From then on I simply called him "Mongo".
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