Football Follies
October 7, 2014
Notice reached the MHSAA office of a so-called “2014 Michigan Youth Football Classic” that invites youth league teams to “a great weekend of youth tackle football.” For $450 per team, youth football teams will bang bodies for two days – Nov. 8 and 9 – with each team guaranteed at least three games. Three!
No level of football but this – for the youngest players who have the most vulnerable skulls – allows the idiocy of three games in a weekend. Most limit competition to a maximum of one game in a week!
In my opinion, this isn’t a football classic. It’s child abuse.
I wish the foolishness would stop there, but even an organization called USA Football seems to have lost its head. Initially and mostly with funding from the NFL, USA Football was focused on teaching youth football coaches and players safe blocking and tackling techniques. Good.
But now this pseudo-national governing body for amateur football is planning events for various age groups that will extend tackle football practices and games throughout what used to be an off-season. Multiple competitions in tackle football are scheduled for high school age players in January, February and July of 2015.
At a time when professional, college, school and Pop Warner football are all reducing contact during practices in-season, USA Football wants to expand the contact experience out of season. It makes about as much sense as three games in a weekend.
Unforgettable 5ive: 2021 Football Week 8
By
Jon Ross
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
October 20, 2021
Here's a look at our Week 8 "Unforgettable 5ive" from MHSAA.tv and MHSAA media partner broadcasts:
► Grand Rapids Catholic Central stops Cedar Springs’ two-point conversion try, preserving a 41-40 GRCC win.
► Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Laker stops Bad Axe’s two-point conversion try, also preserving a one-point win 21-20.
► Saline stops Dexter on a two-point conversion try to tie during the fourth quarter of the Hornets’ 42-40 victory.
► Grand Blanc's Nathan Fidelino makes the sack in a 30-6 Bobcats win over Lapeer.
► Frankenmuth's Cole Jankowski intercepts an Essexville Garber pass in the Eagles' 40-6 win.