Flag Football

Troy had his first flag football practice and scrimmage today. It was supposed to be 30 min of practice, but they spent the first 15 min just trying to hand out uniforms and name tags. So, all they had time to do was to teach the kids how to hike and hand off the ball. I can’t say that the coaches on Troy’s team were all that impressive either.

The coach on the other team; however, was a beast. He went straight to teaching pursuit, angles, and ripping the flags off your opponent. For offense, he focused on evasiveness and keeping the other team from getting your flag. Both of which I felt were better approaches.

When they went to scrimmage, Troy’s team had no idea what they were doing. Troy started off as the running back, but when they handed the ball to him, he just stood there. You see, they had taught them to hand the ball off, but they didn’t teach them to run with it afterwards. Kids are literal. You can’t assume that they know what you know. When it was over, Troy told my wife that he didn’t have fun and that he didn’t want to do it anymore. She told him to give it some time and promised that I’d work on it with him at home. The positive part was that none of the kids knew what they were doing, so he wasn’t “behind.” Oh well, I guess I’m up now!