By: sdwyer41

sdwyer41 — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:29:27 +0000

Last season our team lost 2 regular season games and lost in the championship game, but we will get to that in a sec. We tried to teach both good sportsmanship and proper football technique and skills. We had an issue with a coach in our league that appeared to do anything to win. Having been frustrated by being unable to beat us in the regular season, when we met this team in the championship game, 3 of the linemen appeared to have gained about 20 lbs. They went from having 1 large lineman and 4 average linemen to 4 large and 1 average. We played 3 times in the regular season, including the last game of the season. So we knew eachothers teams pretty well. One of the new linemen even brought a different colored jersey, as he had another game later, but we had no copy of a roster from before the playoffs or during that game. So we could prove nothing. Then as if that was not enough, he blitzed all 11 players on def ever play. Help me to understand how this is teaching kids the proper way to play football. Because I don’t understand it. What can be done to stop the roster swap? Form a league comitee and register the roster with them at the start of the season? Our team may even go to a different league next season, as apparently these types of things happen frequently with this particular team and their coach. I don’t understand the need to cheat, as all 3 previous games were close, 6 points or less with the last being won in overtime. The teams were already well matched.

By: SD5

SD5 — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:30:57 +0000

My saying is “Play for fun, and losing is not fun.”

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