Middle School Athletic Hazing Incident
 

They are doing this report on local news but there's no link on the local news web site yet. When there is, I will post it, but here's my own summary:

It's called 8th grade hit day. During the last day of football practice for the season, the 8th graders each pick a 7th grade player to "tackle" and the 7th grader cannot fight back. After one boy was "hit" for the 3rd time, he had a compound fracture of two bones in his leg which punctured his skin leading to severe bleeding. The kid is hospitalized now. The coaches were present during this!

Seventh grade! I'm floored.

Dee

Anything for the sake of great and almight football... :rolleyes:

I've actually heard about this happening in several places between freshman and 8th graders, seniors and freshman, seniors and juniors...

It's obvious you never played any competitive sport.

-Rudey
--It's always about sacrifice.

Yep, just track, cross-country, softball, volleyball, basketball...oh wait, none of those are football so they don't matter.

My high school had some serious hazing issues in a lot of sports, but I think football was one of the worst because we were a state championship football team so nobody would say or do anything to them. Now that they've started losing, I think things will be getting looked at more seriously.

I'm not proud to admit this, but I actually got an athletic suspension because of a girl who tried to haze me in track. She also got suspended, but what pissed me off the most is that the football players did stuff that was so much worse, and nobody said anything to them.

Sorry girl sports don't count.

-Rudey

Basketball's a girl's sport?

Apparently everything except football is. ;)

When a girl is playing.

-Rudey
--None of that Title IX crud for me Stan!

lol

Don't worry. I'd never watch the WNBA (Bunch of hourses clip-clopping up and down the court playing under the rim basketball).

Stan-
I still want the WUSA back!!!!!!!!!!!

Sounds like Title IX lawsuit potential.
 

Have you seen the story where there was an after-game party, and some booze.

Two cheerleaders at the party were kicked off the squad, but a football player was only suspended for a game.

Sounds like Title IX lawsuit potential.

Hasn't there been a story or two about girls playing that????

Yes, but they weren't hot and didn't wear expensive jeans, so they aren't good enough for Rudey. ;) There was actually a girl at my high school who played football and was quite good...I just wish she could have played powder puff too! ;)

Finally.. a link!

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/2594857/detail.html

Actually a guy I worked with has a daughter who was a place kicker on her high school team and, I think, also was Homecoming Queen. That wasn't a token, she is a really beautiful young woman.

She later tried out, and made the University of Colorado football team -- but never got to play much -- although she did kick in a few games.

Kickers have much different builds. It'd still be weird to have a girl on the football team though. Bunch of pansies.

-Rudey

You're right, of course. I can't see her as playing much of any other position in a D-1 program. It was pretty interesting that she made the team in a program like Colorado's, though.

Kickers not only have different builds, a lot of them are just plain different.

When HSU played either West Alabama or West Georgia (can't remember for sure!) we noticed that the kicker had a girl's first name, but seeing as how creative people get with names these days, we didn't think anything of it.

Until said player took off the helmet after the game an a ponytail came tumbling down......the name fit!!!

PsychTau

"Bunch of pansies."
 

"Bunch of pansies."

They're pansies if they don't let her in the locker room.

Hey! As an athlete and a Tri Delta I resent that!! If a girl wants to play on the football team and is just a good as a guy, then she should go for it.

Cross Country/Track are not girls sports- I've done each since high school and cont in college. They take guts and dedication. I believe in today's society there should just be sports- not "guys sports" and "girls sports"

::steps off the soap box::

*esp* if they're as good as the boys -- using a girl on a team as a publicity stunt is bad for the team AND bad for the girl.

and Rudey, Deltas play serious football.