The irony being that the school’s very next game was against my alma mater. The town in question is very literally adjacent to my family’s property; you can hit the Duxbury town line from my parents’ back porch.
For the background for today’s strip: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/highschool/2021/03/24/high-school-football-team-used-anti-semitic-terms-call-plays/6979229002/
Read the news article on this, and fine they should fire the couch, but to cancel the school’s remainder of the season is over reach. Or are they trying to punish the players for the coach’s stupidity??
When I was in high school on the basketball team, our private school has a large Jewish population and three members of the starting five were Jewish. So as a joke, we as players decided to name a fairly routine in-bound play under the basket as “Israel”. During the first game we tried it, the other team literally laughed so hard when they heard us call it that we got an uncontested basket. After a while other teams began to catch on to the “Israel” play so sometimes we would call that play and then run something else.
TexTech over 3 years ago
Hey, sounds like a plan to me.
Ravenswing over 3 years ago
The irony being that the school’s very next game was against my alma mater. The town in question is very literally adjacent to my family’s property; you can hit the Duxbury town line from my parents’ back porch.
WayDodger over 3 years ago
So, instead of yelling “OMAHA!” the quarterback yells “FART LAUDERDALE?”
jagedlo over 3 years ago
For the background for today’s strip: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/highschool/2021/03/24/high-school-football-team-used-anti-semitic-terms-call-plays/6979229002/
ajr58(1) over 3 years ago
In college the audible to cancel a guard pulling was “smegma.” (No pull)
Bob Blumenfeld over 3 years ago
What worries me is that we may soon see a high school or even college coach NOT be fired for using anti-Semitic or other racial phrases.
Ellis97 over 3 years ago
It’s a shame coaches don’t practice what they preach.
Darling.aw over 3 years ago
I always thought Omaha was a joke…
Ellis97 over 3 years ago
Megawoods? That’s the town where Cleats is set.
BeniHanna6 Premium Member over 3 years ago
Read the news article on this, and fine they should fire the couch, but to cancel the school’s remainder of the season is over reach. Or are they trying to punish the players for the coach’s stupidity??
SC0304 over 3 years ago
Think of the possible audibles if Dehaun Watson plays this year………
sevenfeet0 over 3 years ago
When I was in high school on the basketball team, our private school has a large Jewish population and three members of the starting five were Jewish. So as a joke, we as players decided to name a fairly routine in-bound play under the basket as “Israel”. During the first game we tried it, the other team literally laughed so hard when they heard us call it that we got an uncontested basket. After a while other teams began to catch on to the “Israel” play so sometimes we would call that play and then run something else.