1 This brings back bad memories. . . .

2 Men without chests... I thought you were talking about the First Moobs.

3 Maybe Obama could apologize to them... bow, or something.

4 The military academies go out and compete in Division 1 football with a big inferiority in size.Navy and Air Force manage to do pretty well.Great life lessons they are teaching the kids at that school,"if you look overmatched,give up">

5 Heh, one of the high school football teams in my area is full of Tongans. Big, BIG guys; do the haka before each game. You can almost see the other team praying - not to win - but just to survive. We only lost our last game with them by one touchdown. I was impressed, I gotta admit.

6 Reminds me of my favorite Hemingway poem (yeah, he wrote poetry):

The Age demanded that we sing,
Then cut away our tongue.
The Age demanded that we flow,
Then hammered in the bung.
The Age demanded that we dance,
Then jammed us in to iron pants.
And in the end The Age was handed
The sort of shit The Age demanded.

7 My nephew.. 8 years old, was playing football last week and a 130 freakin' pound 8 year old tackled him .. he ended up in the hospital.

8 Couldn't they just have had a golf off?

9 Foul sock BE GONE!

10

Â… and be sure to see the latest Republican Governors Assoc. ad.  Awesome is understating the message.

11 "My nephew.. 8 years old, was playing football last week and a 130 freakin' pound 8 year old tackled him .. he ended up in the hospital." Good grief, what the hell do you do to an 8-year-old to make 'em 130 pounds?

12 Men without chests are better than women without chests--at least in Moronville.

13 Lawrence Academy team is ridiculously huge (3 linemen over 300 pounds)

Those parents are criminals!!!

14 If the St. George school administrators are so concerned about injury, then they should just eliminate the football team altogether.  Someone might get hurt during a practice!  Oh and cancel baseball and basketball and all the sports too, along with all the Phys Ed.  Oh and don't forget to cancel the chemistry labs and the biology labs and the physics labs - those are dangerous - and the art studios (do you know what those paints are made of?), theater and music classes (someone might trip and fall into a piano!), the English and history classes (carpal tunnel from all of that typing), the math classes (all that chalk dust inhalation from writing on the board), foreign language classes (you're causing psychic harm by focusing on all those oppressed foreigners), the lunch program due to all the unhealthy food.  I guess that just leaves study hall, but Lord only knows what they'll be studying.

15 11: A lot of Nintendo and a lot of McDonald's.

16 That St. George's better not be a Catholic school . . . or else it would be an huge embarrassment to the great football tradition of those schools. . . .

17
Good grief, what the hell do you do to an 8-year-old to make 'em 130 pounds?

Posted by: AngelEm at October 06, 2010 09:36 PM (PuaGA)

No shit!  That's what we thought.  My nephew cant weigh more than 60 pounds..... wet.  Paramedics had to come and everything.  Poor kid.

Nephew still wants to play football... though.

18 10

Â… and be sure to see the latest Republican Governors Assoc. ad.  Awesome is understating the message.

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at October 06, 2010 09:34 PM (r1h5M)

--There's a post on it earlier today.  Raykon is also there if you want some inane amusement.

19 When I was young, I faced up to some of the biggest ballerinas you've ever seen. Never flinched.

20 Now, I'll grant that the Lawrence Academy team is ridiculously huge (3 linemen over 300 pounds), but competitive sport is all about accepting challenges and trying your utmost to overcome them. Not cowering for fear of injury.

But, but, it's just not fair that some football players (or other sports players) are bigger or better than others!  I wonder what will St. George's basketball team do if they come up against players that are a few inches taller than them, cut and run?  Will their new mascot be the Flying Chicken?

Seriously, I played HS school football, both sides of the line (offensive and defensive lineman).  I'm not a big guy, only 5'9" and about 215lbs back then.  I guaran-damn tee you that most of the people I was matched up against were taller and bigger than I.   Did I complain?  Hell no, I loved the challenge.  I did my utmost to overcome my adversary and help my squad achieve victory.  And the other people in my unit that had the same size disadvantage against their opponents felt the same way. 

21

"We make men without chests...

 

Pffft!  We make men without limbs!

22 That St. George's better not be a Catholic school I would guess it's not, probably Episcopal. I live near Lawrence Academy. The town it is in might be one of the few protestant majority towns in New England.

23 Let's just ban football.

We're open to compromise and may allow touch or flag.

24 My nephew.. 8 years old, was playing football last week and a 130 freakin' pound 8 year old tackled him .. he ended up in the hospital.

Barack Obama, meet Chris Christie.

25

Seriously, I played HS school football, both sides of the line (offensive and defensive lineman).  I'm not a big guy, only 5'9" and about 215lbs back then. 

 

Wow, we did not know!

26

I have to say that if the entire team is grossly outsized then they were most likely right in calling the game. The ones who made the mistake were the coaches who set this game up in the first place.

The whole point of school sports is to give the kids a chance to play and improve. There are going to be winners and losers, but you don't want to send a team out to be slaughtered either. You are going to get onesided games to be sure (which is why we have the 50pt rule). Good coaches though throw in their JV before that happens(that is the way our head coach handles things and he has 3 State Championships in less than 10 years under his belt).

27

My nephew.. 8 years old, was playing football last week and a 130 freakin' pound 8 year old tackled him .. he ended up in the hospital.

Barack Obama, meet Chris Christie

 

Bwhahaha!  I would pay to see Obama debate Christie or Obama debate Allen West (he threw down the gauntlet in his latest ad). 

28 They should just issue those SG boys knee-pads and get it over with.

29 There's not a high school football team in New England that should scare eleven girls with athletic ability.

30 Our team was a bunch of little guys--we'd fake the program,overstating our heights and weights by several inches/pounds-- but even if a team beat the shit out of us we could outdrink them and steal their women.

31 Yankees=Pussies

Why are you surprised?  They are all democrats.

Lawrence has 300 lb players?  Bullshit or affirmative action students.

32 #27  The whole point of school sports is to give the kids a chance to play and improve. There are going to be winners and losers, but you don't want to send a team out to be slaughtered either.

Hell, being slaughtered was par for the course in my junior year.  I think we only lost one game by under 10 points. 

I don't think it was the entire Lawrence team that was outsized, just those 3 lineman.  And there are ways to get around the size disadvantage. 

33 Pop Warner devides players by weight.They wouldn't allow a 130 pounder in a game with kids weighing 60.

34 Oh, and hey, DUKE played Alabama, Number One and didn't bitch, actually scored the first TD against them.

AL beat the shit out of them, but the money WAS good!

35 In freshman football I was 6' 0" and weighed 115 lbs.  I didn't make a very good center.

36

Our team was a bunch of little guys--we'd fake the program,overstating our heights and weights by several inches/pounds-- but even if a team beat the shit out of us we could outdrink them and steal their women.

 

There was a college basketball coach that understated all the heights of his players--heh!

37 34 Pop Warner devides players by weight.They wouldn't allow a 130 pounder in a game with kids weighing 60.

I had forgotten about that, good point steevy.  The weight limit for the midget FB league IIRC is 120lbs. 

38 be healthy. do well. enjoy.

39 Come to think of it, Now I'm 6' 0' and weigh 215 lbs.  I'd still make a crappy center.

40 ^{This brings back bad memories. . . .}

^{Posted by: Cumberland College at October 06, 2010 09:30 PM (BP6Z1)}

Thread winner at #1?  Like Mark Buerhle on Opening Day...

41 MA is bigger than RI, after all....

42
Related reading.

43 36 In freshman football I was 6' 0" and weighed 115 lbs.  I didn't make a very good center.

You should have been a wide-receiver then.  Or a TE. 

44 Yankees=Pussies Easy, Sport.

45 Bender Bending Rodriguez, Aren't you 60% titanium.  That should make you light, fast and strong.  I hear you have a drinking problem though.

46 "Nephew still wants to play football" which makes him more of a man than the entire st. george's staff [!!]

47

_{Come to think of it, Now I'm 6' 0' and weigh 215 lbs.  I'd still make a crappy center.}

Never hurts to try out for the team!

48 St. George School and they're scared? Do they not know St. George?

49

You should have been a wide-receiver then.  Or a TE

I heard Bawney Frank was both but in the opposite order.

50 Good grief, what the hell do you do to an 8-year-old to make 'em 130 pounds?

Redshirting.  The kid's been eight since 2007.

51 #43

Excellent!

#45
Fluffy?  You work in movies?  Come on over and fluff me up!

52 In freshman football I was 6' 0" and weighed 115 lbs.  I didn't make a very good center.

You should have been a wide-receiver goal post then. 

FIFY

53 #45

Fluffer?

http://tinyurl.com/a5gxs

54 "41 This brings back bad memories. . . . Posted by: Cumberland College at October 06, 2010 09:30 PM (BP6Z1) Thread winner at #1? Like Mark Buerhle on Opening Day..." Or just like the Ramblin' Wreck back in that day. Cordially...

55 The Lawerance Acadamy team is all Jews, the refs were all jews and the line is full of big mean jews.

56 Fluffy? You work in movies? No, but I've read some history. Who won the war, you mouthy little fuck?

57 What a loser coach.  Scheme around those three guys, run them back forth across the field until they are gasping for air, put only one or two d-line in a stance and run blitz every down, etc. 

Might as well have put their cheerleaders on a bus with couple cases of wine coolers and sent them over.  Why even have a football program, if that is the attitude they want to instill, play soccer.

58 The Lawerance Acadamy team is all Jews, the refs were all jews and the line is full of big mean jews.

Posted by: Rick Sanchez at October 06, 2010 09:58 PM (fwSHf)

Sure sounds that way.

59 This reminds me of two episodes from my Army service. The one time I played rugby, I was hanging out in the barracks on Saturday morning when the XO came in looking for a couple of bodies to round out his team (some guys were out sick). You, you and you. Come with me. Bring cleats if you have 'em. Yes sir. The opposing team was all, and I mean ALL, Samoan. Another time, my insane Megadeth fan Airborne Ranger squad leader was doing morning formation and stopped in front of me to scream WHERRRRRRE'S YOURRRRRRRR CHESSSSSST!!!! GET DOWN AND FIND YOUR CHEST!!!!!! Pushups until I "found my chest".

60 Or just like the Ramblin' Wreck back in that day.

Cordially...

Posted by: Rick at October 06, 2010 09:58 PM (pT/Ao)

I was a starter on that team.

61 Geez, this school gives pussies a bad name.

62 No, but I've read some history. Who won the war, you mouthy little fuck?

Posted by: fluffy, Northener at October 06, 2010 09:59 PM (SwkdU)

Sorry yet?

63 Sorry yet? No. Sorry for what? Apparently, you are obtuse and mouthy.

64 "We make men without chests...

...and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid the geldings to be fruitful."
- C. S. Lewis

NOT IN TEXAS WE DON'T.

65

Wow!  How much are the idiot dems spending to defeat Michele Bachmann? 

I see they are spending some here. 

Are those pay for click ads?

 

66

Always remember, kids--the bigger they are...

the harder it's going to be to pick those wedgies out of your butts.

67 Wow.

A C.S. Lewis quote.

That is soooo hawt.

68

There's no "I" in TEAM!

Now QUIT? Quit's another story. It's got one of those little buggers right there before the "T."

See it?

69

Fluffy? You work in movies?

No, but I've read some history. Who won the war, you mouthy little fuck?

The Americans

The Americans

The Americans

The North

The Americans

The Americans et al

The Americans, British, and French

The Americans, British and Russians

Draw

Draw ( That's how I see it)

The Americans

The Americans

The Americans et al

The Americans

Pending

Sorry-had to answer!

70 True, there is no "I" in team, but there is an "M" and and "E," which spell "ME."

71 St. George's could solve its pussy-ball problem the same way every other New England prep school does: free-ride fifty black dudes.

They won't.

72 Big deal.  The Ivy League makes people without brains and spines!

73 Football, heh.

74 Do players routinely get injured by these guys?

My husband played football in high school... he was a tackle or end or something or other... the guy that most often got to flatten the quarterback.  Started.  Still says his favorite thing was the look of terror as the quarterback saw him coming.

I think their team was state champs (granted... it was North Dakota) more often than not.

And all at the grand total weight of a whopping 180 pounds.

I really don't know how this counts as not having chests.   Would a 130 pound guy be more of a guy if he went into a boxing ring with a 200 pound fellow six inches taller than he was and got the snot beat out of him?   I think that it's pretty courageous to box or play football with guys your own size and get the snot beat out of you.

A failure of manly chest hair would be if you only lined up against those who were smaller.

75 Oh come on -- this is easy.  Just don't keep score, hand out a trophy for attending and everyone will go home happy.  

'cept perhaps those who barf their guts out at these pansy ideals... 

76 My son played against a guy who was almost a foot taller than he was and had, lordy, 60 lbs on him at least.  Son stomped up to the giant with his little 5'9", buck seventy frame, got right in his face, er chest, and backed that big mofo down in front of God and everybody. Then hung on his right ankle like a terrier for the entire game.  That big boy drug him all over the field and it was a slaughter.

On of the proudest moments of my life and that cocky lil sumbitch has no quit in him. Mamas? Don't let your babies grow up to be pussies. Dad? The fact that we even have to have this conversation, on this website, says more than it should. Dear God in Heaven.

77

Sorry, but I disagree on two counts.

First, although most leagues in my area have, for good reason, weight-to-age restrictions, many teams game the system.

My 9 year old grandson is the smallest member of his team and is fearless to a fault. Often, they play teams larger in size and weight and never complain. Last week, it would have been comical  for anyone looking at the disparity in size - they would have thought my grandson's team was playing a team two steps up. The final count was three of my grandson's team members being carried off the field - one on an ambulance stretcher. Not one of those fearless warriors ever complained - not once!

Which begs the questions raised about pro football - you take these kids, many from poor black commuities, and train tem all their lives to be agressive and beat the crap out of everyone. Then suddenly, they are expected to know that it just isn't right to beat up on their ladys?

Often, the adults have to come in and take over. I simply cannot agree with this man-up message - sorry.

78 Great life lessons they are teaching the kids at that school,"if you look overmatched, give up"> -- "We're all winners, no loser" mentality.

My nephew.. 8 years old, was playing football last week and a 130 freakin' pound 8 year old tackled him .. he ended up in the hospital.

Barack Obama, meet Chris Christie.
Posted by: nickless

Touché!

79 If the tiny team coach was that concerned about significant physical injuries, he might have had a conference with the other coach to request some sort of alteration, a compromise of sorts--perhaps forfeiting the league game for an unofficial game of good sport tag football rather than simply forfeiting all together without any play.

As it was, the teaching moment and learning experience dealt cowardice without any effort to become sportsmen.

In politics, this episodic premise coincides with smart asses whose basis for upholding a constitutional matter is CONVENIENCE and COMFORT. In that, they are only willing to stake ground if the win is a given without much effort. 

Roll over, but first you will blow me.

80

A failure of manly chest hair would be if you only lined up against those who were smaller.

Ha!  There is no more chest hair, they all wax.  Pity.

81 I would not play either, but if you want to go to old rules, no substitutions, man goes out stays out, 60 minutes of football, bring it on.

82 42 MA is bigger than RI, after all....

Hell - the Atlanta Metro Area is bigger than RI.   We've been living here for about 5 years and still can't get over how they view distance here.   In Atlanta, a 30 minute drive was an everyday experience (sometimes just to go to the store, because the traffic sucked so bad).  Here, they act like it's the friggin Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Then again, from their persepctive, a 30 minute drive IS halfway across the state. 
 

83 So I guess we should eliminate classes of boxing, too, since it's all about fighting the good fight and "facing adversity." Or have girls face-off boys.

Sorry. As easy as it is to say "man up, you pussies," some differentials are just so heavily weighted that to guarantee injury of participants - especially for grade-school kids - is irresponsible. If you needed to fight a vastly superior enemy because your life was at stake, that's one thing. This is simply a game... a game where no one will learn what they didn't already know: the much heavier, faster mass will pulverize lumps of smaller organelles. Keep that lesson in the physics class and let the kids learn about competition on another day.

There's tough competition and then there's unreasonable competition. Perhaps this was a matchup that just went over the line.

84 My High School opened three years before I entered as a Freshman. My senior year (seven years later) we celebrated at the home coming game when they scored their first touch down in an actual varsity game.

85 Not all RI athletic programs are so .... soccerish. Exhibit one is Mt Saint Charles hockey. Not unexpected in a parochial school in Woonsocket - a city that has been a French Canayjun enclave forever. So good for so long that they now attract the best and most aggressive talent of all backgrounds. Twenty Mount players drafted by the NHL. Current coach's record is something like 800 and 130. It used to be that if a Mount team dogged it in a game, even to show mercy, they would have an after game practice until they couldn't stand up. Don't know if that's still true.

86

I'm with Anonymous -- you don't jeopardize a bunch of high school age kids by throwing them out on the field knowing there's a good chance they could get seriously injured (or killed -- had a kid around here get clobbered by a much larger guy a few years back, snapped his neck; he didn't make it to the hospital).

This is a game, with underage kids who are out to learn the sport, perhaps to go on further with it, perhaps to just have it be a fond memory.  At the college level you are an adult and can play by big boy rules with your own decisions, at the age these kids are there are still adults in charge (hopefully).

If the other team showed no sign of taking it easy (winning but not slaughtering them, you know, showing some sportsmanship), then I don't blame the coaches a bit.  And that can happen: my cousins played for a local school -- they were huge, used to scrimage with a local college -- their coach (and sadly, a lot of the parents) thought it was just great if they sent an opposing player out on a stretcher each game, which means they encouraged it...which means the boys (being kids) did it.  Kind of a sick commentary on how we raise our kids if you ask me, and the furthest thing from true courage.

87

I graduated from this school way back in '76 and football wasn't it's strong point then. With a full slate of sports in the Fall - football, soccer, field hockey, and cross-country, at three levels of competition - "Thirds" (freshmen), JV, and Varsity, and only a student body of 365 there is not a deep well to draw from talent-wise. Even so we held our own in our league. I also seem to remember that they didn't do much, if any, recruiting. My graduating class was huge at 89 people.

I have to agree with  AnonymousDrivel and unknown jane that the school's first prioity is to prevent serious injury. Anyway, I'm sure the kids were willing to play the game -  @mn">D@mn adults sticking their noses in!

 

88 In other Liberal sporting news:

Donald Ghey coach of East Bay Vermont Sparkling Unicorns announced the cancellation of the much anticipated Musical Chairs showdown with their bitter rivals the Burlington Rainbows. Coach Ghey explained that there were only ten chairs available for the eight contestants in the match. "Last year there were two cases of bruised self esteem when players weren't able to immediately find seats when the music stopped." He explained "We didn't want another blood bath like that."