bobretro

I'm having a lot of fun posting highlights of my team's games on Youtube. I'ld love to see some of yours too! Gentlemen, start your uploads!

Here is my team's winning extra point on the last play of this season's first game (didn't get the touchdown on video):



Here is a nice run by my son during the second game:



Here is my son pulling a flag, notice how we teach them to hold the flag high after pulling it to help the ref out.

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=8ZT2uvyEmYQ

Bob

So we had our second game of the season and ran into a problem.  The opposition kept having their flags on the front of the belt.  I mentioned this to the official and asked him to take care of it.  He went to the other team and adjusted a few flags.  The flags continued to show up on the front of the kids belts and I kept pointing it out to the official by going out to him and asking him politely to check the flags, never raising my voice, so that only he and I knew what we were discussing.  The other team finally scored, and of course the boy's left flag was up by his belt buckle and he was running the right sideline (see for yourself: ).  In the second half my assistants and I were spotting the flags prior to the play and I would once again approach the official.  One time I even pointed out the the official how all of my boys had the flags on their hips.  The last time I approached him he finally turned to me and yelled, loud enough for my boys to hear, "Just coach your team".  I then responded that he should ref the game.  After the game, I reviewed the video tape my wife had shot and sure enough, you can see how blatant the flag issue was.  I fired off an e-mail to the league organizer.  I feel that I had an obligation to my team to continue to point the flag problem out.  I'd like to hear what you think about how I handled the situation.  We won the game 7-6 by the way, but the game was ruined by an incompetent official.  I've been assisting for 2 years and took over head-coaching duties during the spring session.  I've never had any problems with an official before, in fact I've had a lot of fun talking to them before, during and after the games.  This was just weird.

         Bob