(09-10-2015 01:49 PM)Wilkie01 Wrote:  And that is my point as well. Many on here are for getting that they were young once and that they were also young dumb and full of *** (come)!

True but 50 years later I still suffer from neck and back pain from a similar hit from behind in a jr high football game 5 seconds after the play was over. Never saw it coming. Ref is a lot older and could easly be long term injured from those blindsided strong hits to his back.

Aldon Smith: multiple dui's, hit and run, assault weapons charges, civil lawsuits against him over people being shot at his home during a party, a bomb threat at a major international airport, nfl suspensions, etc...

Guy is signed today by an nfl team.

But dam these two high school kids to hell. Am I right?

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/1...ef-resigns

Deez kidz iz da devul.

The referee sounds like a racist but deserved to be fired instead of blindsided.

No CBA. Incomparable situations. These kids screwed up big time and should be banned from playing high school football. Also, the coach Who ordered the attack should also be banned from coaching. The head coach should be suspended for at least one year and should probably be fired for hiring the goofball who called for the hit job.

This type of thing cannot be tolerated in a civilized society. It's hard enough to find qualified people willing to give up their weekends to officiate HS games. You're going to have anyone of any quality willing to do it if they feel like they are in any sort of danger.

This certainly wasn't handled the right way but this referee hardly seems innocent in all of this. Certainly not of high quality.

From the link in post 23:

According to a sideline source and the accounts provided to Outside the Lines of four John Jay players, Watts used the N-word twice during the game, once before and once after the players hit him, and also used language offensive to Hispanics.

"As a black male, nothing offended Mack Breed more than being called a racial epithet except someone in a position of authority calling his players racial epithets," Reeves' statement read. "The slur was heard by multiple players, some of whom were not involved in the hit. A few plays after being called a '[N-word],' Moses Reynolds found himself being ejected by Watts for throwing a punch. However, the game film clearly shows that Reynolds was the recipient of multiple punches from an opposing white player who was not ejected."

John Jay players were frustrated that no Marble Falls players were ejected during the physical contest, which included two John Jay touchdowns nullified by penalties. John Jay is predominantly a minority school. Marble Falls High School, which hosted the game, is a predominantly white school northwest of Austin, Texas.

"The atmosphere on the sideline was a powder keg due to the news of the racial comments spreading among the players while the players watched their black teammates being ejected," Reeves said in the statement. "A JJHS coach (not Coach Breed) was flagged for yelling at the referees about the racial comments. Succumbing to the racially charged atmosphere, Coach Breed let his anger get the best of him, and he made some regrettable comments. Witnesses can't agree on what the comments were, but they were interpreted by two players to mean 'hit the referee.' The witnesses agree that Breed never explicitly told them to hit the referee except for Michael Moreno, whose story continues to evolve."

Sticks and Stones..........................