High School pulls out of football game citing size of foe's players

They were scared of the 3 300+ lbs OFFENSIVE linemen. That is a mega failure..

 

Sissies.

 

good call imo

 

No big deal, they didn't want to play a stacked team.

DD

 

I went to private school. I never gave it much thought when I was there but I remember going back for Homecoming a few years after I graduated and I noticed that a kid I knew when he was a freshman was playing on the O Line. He was scrawny when I knew him. I was 6'1", 180 as a senior and I dwarfed him. I thought he must've grown but no, he was just a 5'6", 140 lb Right Guard.

 

Play the damn game anyway.

 

My son's school is a private christian school (total student count about 350) where they play 6-man football. Last week, they played Calvert, who has won numerous state titles. When I saw both teams like up before the game, i was scared for our team. We have a couple of big guys (QB is like 6'4'' and one of the flankers is 6'3'' or so, but the rest are 6' and under), but it seemed every one of Calvert's kids were in the 6'2'' to 6'5'' range. They kicked the **** out of us to the point the 45 pt. differential mercy rule was met by early 3rd quarter (should have been met in the 2nd, but Calvert's kids dropped about 2-3 easy TD passes). I don't think our team gained even 10-20 yards the whole game, which is hard not to do in 6-man football.

Six-man football is a lot of fun to watch though.

 

6-man football?.....WTF...just get 5 more players.

 

never heard of 6 man football? a lot of schools in small towns just dont have enough to field a normal team.

 

3 linemen...a RB...QB...1 WR???

 

Some schools don't have enough kids to field a large team. My kid's school has like 11 guys total on the team. There were only 15 in the graduating class last year.

You basically have 3 OL, QB and 2 flankers. Any of the 6 are eligible receivers (kind of neat to see trick plays where the C catches a TD pass). The QB is only allowed to pass or handoff, he can't run it (but he becomes an eligible receiver if he pitches back). 80 yard field instead of 100; 10 min quarters; 15 yards for a first down.

One of the more interesting rules in the PAT; a kick is worth 2 points, while a run/pass into the endzone is worth only 1 point.

 

Certainly not the first time someone's had to pull out due to size. Sometimes it's just too much to handle.

 

6 man football is fun to watch - 80yd fields and the scores are usually above 50pts per team - very very high scoring. Its huge in West Texas due to all the small towns, but there are some towns in East & Central TX that play it too..like the aforementioned Calvert, wich is near College Station I believe.

There is a documentary out about 6man football..narrated by Val Kilmer..I forget the name of it though.

 

I'd rather them quit than for people to expect the better team to take it easy on them once the game became a blowout.

 

What kind of example is that for their state of R.I.?

 

Here's my David vs Goliath story. I went to a charter school inner city near Austin high here in houston. We didnt have football so we played rugby. We were all hispanic and not big by any means. I dont think we had a student talled than 5'11.

Well we played Denton I think, these farm guys were huge they were all over 6 feet and looked like men compared to us. Even they said "its a brave thing you're doing" i was 5' 7 150 at the most. This is rugby too...not football. No pads if one of those guys falls on me i probably wouldve been crushed lol.

The point is we played and they kicked our ass. Maybe they didnt hit us as much because of our size but hell I was like a chihuahua, no sense of how big or small I was.

Man up bi****s. Its a good life lesson. Our coach didnt cancel our game, we just had to take the hits.

 

Ray Lewis: "Man's Game."