Two weeks ago, Central High took time out of stomping a mudhole in Zachary when Central quarterback Will Briscoe decided to get cute on a 2-pt conversion–he throws the pass behind-the-back to a wide-open receiver in the endzone. The Harlem Globetrotters would be impressed. That said, any late hit that would happen to that little bastard later in the game would be totally deserved. Although if dude is launching bombs behind the back like that on you, maybe it’s just time to fire up the bus. –via Deadspin.
Here’s some high school football hijinks for you: John Glenn (the Michigan high school, not the aging former Senator and astronaut) has a field goal blocked as time expires, and of course Central Plymouth is jubilant. But guess what, hoseheads: that ball didn’t cross the line of scrimmage, so it’s live. Run! Yes you with the ball! Scamper half-assedly into the endzone and savor victory! As for you, Plymouth, we have a wonderful consolation prize: a copy of the high school football rulebook. Read it sometime. via. Thanks, John.
If I had a dollar for every time some high school player forgot that quarters in football don’t end until the ball is dead…I’d have 20 cents. Here’s a play where dude catches a last-second field goal attempt…and then spikes it. Of course, Casey Babcock of Otter Valley realized his mistake as soon as he made it, but by then it was too late. Touchdown. Game over. No soup for you. I’m all for finding new and innovative ways to embarassing young people on YouTube, but seriously, this is just cruel. The only time a guy should be humiliated like this is when his dad gets caught cheating on his mom with his PE coach. Sure, it’s a shameful act of infidelity, but look at the great form on those squats. via.
Two of the best high school football teams in the nation played last weekend in front of 31,896 at SMU's Ford Field in Dallas. Hooray - a high school football post! I know, I know, but what made this game interesting were the differences between these 2 schools:
The [Northwestern (Miami, FL)] Bulls were greeted in their hotels, by D — a Dallas-area glossy magazine with Dragons quarterback Dodge on the cover, highlighting a story that explains why the affluent Dallas-Fort Worth suburb Southlake is "Perfect City, USA" — and by a front page story in the USA Today examining the discrepancies between the schools. According to the article, Carroll receives high academic ratings and has a student body that's 89 percent white, with just one percent of its students receiving free or reduced-price lunches; Northwestern, in the Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, gets an "F" rating from the state of Florida and is 93 percent black, with two-thirds of its students eligible for free or reduced lunch.
Yes, drastic inequality in our public education system is a very serious problem. Anyway, just as Hollywood has taught us, the poor inner-city school defeated the rich suburban school 29-21. Every sports film devotee knows that the inner-city school will only lose if it plays a small school from an Indiana farm town. Thank God for Hollywood because I would never know how to bet on these games. Not that I bet on high school football. I think that would be a definite sign you have a gambling problem. Unless you're good at it. -KD
Sam McGuffie is an all-purpose back from Cypress, Texas. A manly With Leather reader alerted me to his exploits, which I originally saw on ND Nation. Anyway, Sam is kind of hard to tackle.
Not impressed? Well, he's also good at jumping:
I believe the appropriate terminology for that is "pwn3d."
I can barely even write about this because I keep shuddering involuntarily, but here goes: a high school football player in Wisconsin named Jake Asp almost missed part of his season because he had a beetle lodged in his ear. For real:
"Someone said I could have popped my ear drum," Asp said. "…But when I got to the [clinic], they took a look in there and saw it, and I was like, 'What the heck? How did I get a bug in my ear?'"
Asp could hear it, and it nearly drove him nuts. "It was digging and biting into my eardrum," he said. "That went on for, like, 15 minutes. I could hear it — a whole bunch of loud popping noises. It hurt pretty bad."
Asp eventually went into surgery after his ear started filling up with blood.
Okay, deep breaths. I'm a pretty tough dude. I invaded Iraq in a tank and killed some people and generally wasn't too afraid, then because I'm such a hardass I got my own sports blog. But this… fuuuuuuuuck. No chance I'm sleeping tonight. Hey, YOU try watching The Wrath of Khan when you're five years old and see if you don't have nightmares about bugs in your ears for the rest of your childhood.
