Bye week OT: Pop Warner Bounty Scandal in SoCal
http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/8435887/california-kids-football-team-hit-bounty-scandal
Want to know why high school football is so good in California? Because this is the stuff that goes on in Pop Warner out here. A team in Tustin (Orange County) consisting of 10- and 11-year-olds are being accused of offering cash to the players for big hits and for knocking opposing players out of the game.
My neighbors kids play Pop Warner so I help out with it a bit, and I can say that pee wee football out here is much more intense than in Michigan where I grew up. So although it's surprising that they'd go this far, I'm not exactly shocked.
September 28th, 2012 at 6:55 PM ^
September 28th, 2012 at 6:58 PM ^
of sports culture are just like the extremes of any culture: extremely fucked up.
September 28th, 2012 at 7:20 PM ^
This was all taken out of context. It was just a misunderstanding of a one time slip of the tongue. Those coaches and players are above reproach, and should file defimation of character lawsuits and restraining orders against the dictator peewee football commissioner to allow them to keep playing their fair, and honest game.
September 28th, 2012 at 8:12 PM ^
They could have gotten by with video porn, slurpees, and help with their arithmetic tests.
September 28th, 2012 at 8:16 PM ^
The coaches of these kids are probably the biggest fuckin losers I've ever heard of. They think it's cool to recreate the big hits of the NFL and use little kids as their test dummies. Throw these bitches in PRISON with some large men who haven't felt the touch of a woman in a long time. Then they'll know what it's like to get taken advantage of and hit. =)
September 28th, 2012 at 8:32 PM ^
doesnt surprise me..i head coach 10/11 team. our better players have been targeted before, the real problem is the officials are 18/19 year olds who dont know how to handle it. Kick the coaches/parents out if it happened...Part of me think that its just a lot of butthurt parents who are pissed because their kids team got rear ends handed to them..
September 28th, 2012 at 8:36 PM ^
"The Cobras, consisting mainly of 10- and 11-year-olds, advanced to the Pop Warner Super Bowl last year and finished the season with a 12-1 record."
I hate to say that I did not recoil in horror either, and this in itself is quite sad on a cultural level.
Further, I suddenly have this image of this coach telling his players to "sweep the leg" since "Cobra" is in the team name, of course, but I will say that, if the allegations turn out to be true, this is still pretty unconscionable and these folks should not be allowed to be around kids in a coaching capacity. Indeed, I am worried about the parents that would approve of this behavior too. On the other hand, if it is just the "either I win or it isn't fair" attitude, then I am still worried for everyone.
September 28th, 2012 at 8:48 PM ^
September 28th, 2012 at 8:58 PM ^
out on the football field. It turned out that he and I have sons the same age and we were both of us were the coaches of their teams. I asked to meet his kid and he said he wasn't around. Turns out he was there by himself scouting our team- 2nd grade flag footballers.
We kind of stacked our team with 8 year olds though, so maybe that had something to do with it.... WTF
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