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Texas Middle School Team Executes Perfect Trick Play
- Posted on November 8, 2010 at 2:49am by
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Comments (106)
ConservativeNH
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 7:19amPerhaps we should hire their coach for the Patriots … might liven up our offense. Looks like their defense is about the same as ours, though. :-)
Report Post »conservativeme
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 7:17amHaving played, well, let’s say “many” years of football, that is the perfect play for that level. High School would never get away with it. But talk about taking them by surprise . . .
Report Post »ccrabill
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 7:17amCompletely and utterly, outrageously WONDERFUL!
Report Post »Mominfla51
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 6:59amPerfectly executed!!!!! Love how the player “strolled” thru the line and took off….Great play !!!
Report Post »Conserving Ink
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 6:55amIt relies on the maxim that every conman knows. “Act like you belong there.”
http://conserving-ink.blogspot.com/
Report Post »Lunar
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 8:53amExactly, the kid is lookin at the ref his face kinda like, somethings wrong here, runs… Nerve and cunning.
Report Post »Speak without Fear
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 6:51amBrilliant!
Report Post »emertz8413
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 6:24amHahahaha That was great.
Report Post »Impenitent
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 6:21ambeautiful
Report Post »UrsaMajor
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 6:16am>sniff-sniff<
My god, that was beautiful.
Report Post »felina g
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 6:15amThey call it “The Ol` Goldman Sach`s”.
Report Post »US Agent
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 1:52pmor the Bernie Madoff
Report Post »hisuelos
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 6:09amI think we just pulled that off nationally, did we not? Almost made that touchdown, guys! Keep it up. THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX, PLAN, STUDY, PRACTICE and act with courage!!! “Forty Days and Nights” pledge sound familiar? I LOVED WEST TEXAS football growing up. GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Report Post »captquest
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 6:03amLMAO!, that was great!
Report Post »EP46
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 5:33amI know Nothing about football, but I laughed out loud watching this !! Love it !! We all need a laugh and this is great !
Report Post »Mark J. Marshall
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 5:31amHahaha That’s awesome!
Report Post »BobParker2003
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 5:29amawesome!!!
Report Post »mjgma
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 5:19amAm I the only one not a fan of the trick play.
Report Post »captquest
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 6:02amyes
Report Post »UrsaMajor
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 6:14amLet’s see what the Magic 8-Ball says…
>shake-shake-shake<
It syas, "Yes. Yes, you are."
jk ;)
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 8:13amNo you’re not the only one. I think trick plays are bush league. If you have to win by trickery than maybe you’re just not good enough to win playing the “real” game.
That said, this was an amusing clip.
Report Post »Silversmith
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 10:10am@jjcoolay You win by trickery all the time in football!! People fake handoffs, the head fake, sending out receivers during a running play, the famed Statue of liberty play!?!?!? Maybe you guys are oversensitive to being fooled because of the way the administration behaves these days.
I thought the play was fantastic.
Silversmith
Report Post »White Devil
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 11:20amI’m with you MJGMA. What good is a win, if it’s a trick? It’s one thing to fake a hand-off once the ball is snapped. But they clearly disarmed the other team by thinking there was some sort of penalty or some other problem. It’s an un-earned goal to me.
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 11:25amIt’s not a legal play. You’re not allowed to fake the start of a play at any level of football.
Using trick plays in a middle school football game is also pathetically sad on the coache’s part. Especially ones that he knows full well are illegal, and rely on incompetent officials that don’t know the rules.
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 11:34amSILVER the other plays you described aren’t the same. The ones you described are all misdirection plays that take place during the normal course of a play. They seek to take advantage of the fact that a team will be too aggressive and over commit.
This play was trying to make them think the play hadn’t started yet (which is not legal in any level of football FYI). Light years apart. This is bush league, especially in a middle school game.
Report Post »Silversmith
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 1:49pm@ Rowgue Sure looked like the line set and the center gave the ball to the QB to me. As far as I know, that signals the start of play where the ruse took place. And while the subtleties of what makes a legal snap is not my expertise, I don‘t see how you think it’s not a legal play. Certainly one that only works in a kids game where the basics are still being learned. I’ll bet no one on that defense will fall for something like that again!
Silversmith
Report Post »Voice-O-Reason
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 8:00pmpretty much
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 1:22pm@SILVER You are not allowed to attempt to trick the opposing team into thinking the play hasn’t started yet. It’s bush league, unsportsmanlike, and illegal.
Report Post »DagneyT
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 5:14amThis is the first football play that has made me both laugh and cheer! Another reason to love being a Texan!
Report Post »Tayper
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 11:21amExcept for the Cowboys!!!
Report Post »bghandlcw
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 3:36pmI was just going to say that!
Report Post »GoldwaterWasRight
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 5:12amThis is awesome… having played sports around that age, I remember plenty of times when something unscripted would happen and the entire team would sort of look around for direction. I half wonder if it wasn’t some sort of mistake, with the kid just seeing a chance to sprint for the touchdown out of nowhere.
Report Post »Tony Nagy
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 4:50amIm back from two surgeries at two different hospitals on the same day, incase you missed me….. Ok to this play, now thats what I call thinking outside the box!…. Perfect !!!!…. the other team was still thinking inside the box WOW!!!…. I watched it 3 times and almost busted my stiches… Owwww!
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 5:36amWelcome back, hope all is well.
Report Post »felina g
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 6:29amChicken soup, Babe. Can`t hoit.
Report Post »felina g
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 3:30amWinner winner chicken dinner.
Report Post »akw
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 3:29amROTFLMBO! Pretty darn slick. Whose idea do you think that was – the players‘ or the coach’s?
Report Post »DagneyT
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 5:16amThe one thing we can say is it will only work one time!
Report Post »LUDWIKA BRONISLAWA
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 3:26amAhhhhhhh, the beautiful art of confusion!
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 3:22amThat’s also how you run away from cops.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 4:29amPerhaps that is how they got the idea . …
Report Post »GBMBulletsSKNRD
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 3:14amThat is slick. I had to watch it 3 times.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 1:16pmI watched it twice, pretty cool.
Report Post »QuietRiot
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 3:12amGenious !!
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 3:25amI would say also ‘cunning’ and ‘crafty’ this was one move I admit to never having seen pulled off before, that seems to be why no one figured out what was going on at first. Smart kids.
snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 3:35amIt reminds me of the Cardinals v. Vikings game today, at the end, the Vikings pulled off so many tricks to confuse the Cards they won in overtime. Talk about an embarassing mess.
http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm
grandmaof5
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 5:39amAmazing play. Just strolled right on through… I wonder if they won the game. Snowleopard, do you ever sleep?
Report Post »beekeeper
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 7:21amWhen I was in high school, our football coach made a point of doing one really exceptional play each season. I remember one season the team couldn’t catch a break, so they huddled up on the line of scrimmage, off to one side, and the center stayed with the ball (it was a quick huddle, leaving the center with the ball didn’t seem too odd), then the QB yelled “Hut!” and the center snapped the ball laterally to the QB, who ran the ball for a touchdown. After that play, the opposing team always mirrored the huddle to prevent a repeat.
Report Post »Marcobob69
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 7:30amUnbelievable! For a middle school team!!!
VA-Ump
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 8:19amEasy folks…. this play is illegal in both high school and college. Most youth leagues operate under the National Federation (high school) rules and this play, and other variations, have been deemed illegal for years. Some youth league coaches still try it, thinking they are the next NFL geniuses….
5
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 8:23amThat was My Grandson (Breeze). I taught Him that trick. It only works 1 time every ten or fifteen years so, you save it for the big game. Way to go Boy.
Report Post »ILFarmer
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 12:36pmmay be illegal, but it’s funny none the less.
Report Post »STF1961
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 1:03pmThe Dallas Cowboys should hire that coach!
Report Post »Annette
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 1:34pmsomeone send this to the cowboys! PLEASE
Report Post »BlazingPatriot
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 2:32pmThis usually will only work if the offense appears to be acting as if the play has not officially started. The defense becomes confused with the banter that is coming from the offensive players as if they are using a time out or are simply delaying the game with the officials’ approval. Cunning to say the least!
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