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Youth Football - anybody have a kid playing?

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The nephew had his first game yesterday. Broke up several plays from his OLB position. He also plays fullback, and got 4 carries for 14 yards, all of it coming on one busted play where he started inside and broke it outside on 3rd and 10 to get the first down. He had three pancakes that ended up springing our best runningback for all three of his touchdowns. This kid only had 4 carries for 188 yards and three touchdowns. The coaches did a great job of spreading the ball around between the four runningbacks and the quarterback. It kept all of them pretty fresh, and on a day where it was 90+ degrees in the shade, that was a pretty smart move. The craziest part of it all was that, for kids 7 and 8 years old, they didn't have a single false start or offsides called against his team. Falcons win 19-6.
 
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OK, I don't want to bore you all any longer so I will cool it after this post, but Ronnie made a ridiculous play yesterday the likes of which I've never seen in Bantam football.

After 158 yards and 3 TDs on 8 carries in the first half, he didn't get any carries the 2nd half, but did intercept 2 passes, the first one a screen pass which he returned about 60 yards for a TD.
I didn't realize it until I saw it on film, (I had assumed he was the LB on that side and had crept up into the gap betweent their TE and Wide Outs) but he was the OLB on the opposite side of the formation, covering the C & D gaps on the Off's left side, about 4 or 5 yards deep. The QB took a couple of steps back and threw a screen pass/lateral (they had lined up 2 guys wide) to his right, which Ronnie flew in front of the receiver and snagged in full stride and was gone! He saw the formation and just exploded as soon as the ball was snapped - had to have covered 12-15 yards to get to the point of attack - to the other side of the formation and picked it off.

Anyway, it wasn't the interception itself that blew us away, he's done that many times in scrimmages, it was how fast he read the play/formation and how fast he closed on the ball. You just don't see that in a 2nd grade kid.
 
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Here's a good one... only cuz Nightmares stats reminded me... Roger Maris holds the National High School record for most kickoff returns for TD in a game... FOUR !!! His school didn't have baseball...
 
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BuckinMichigan said:
Keep the stories coming. These are great. Your wife obviously had some serious athletic talent to make up for your lack of depth in the gene pool :wink2:
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That's so funny only because it's so true!! :tongue2:

Actually, I was a total runt (and still am) but a good athlete. he gets his height from his mother's side, though.

Thanks to all of you, I appreciate the support. this year so far has certainly surpassed our expectations - which were pretty high to begin with.
I had set his goals for the season at 15 TDs, 1000 yards, and 150 tackles.
After 3 games, he has 10 TDs and 457 yards (on 24 carries). I haven't tracked the tackles, but I don't think he's going to make that one (especially if our D Line starts playing better). We have the potential to play 15 games, so if you extrapolate the stats, it could get ridiculous - but there are some teams we will play where he won't hardly touch the ball.

The team only has one goal - to play their last game of the year at Welcome Stadium in Dayton - that means they have made the Championship game.
So far we are 3-0. Points for: 75. Points allowed: 13. (you are not allowed to win by more than 32 pts.)
 
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Little brother just had his first season game..
had about 20 carries for approximately 250 yards and one TD, never got stopped in the backfield even once.
Twice the team tried a trick play where Colten shifted out to TE, they ran a halfback pass the first time was the first play of the game and he was WIDE OPEN and ran it for a TD, but the second time the halfback got hit on the throw and it went straight up, so Colten came back, caught the jump ball, made one cut and took it to the house! So he had two catches for about 120 yards and two TDs.
The games Final score was: Miller 18 Federal Hocking 12.

Edit:I was corrected today after my dad talked to one of the coaches, I guess there was also a 40+ yard punt return for colten. The total yards was upwards of 300.
 
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Colten had his second league game, against Logan. Another big school. I guess they have more kids in one grade than Miller has in the entire highschool.
anyways. It was a very good game, Colten caught one TD early to put them up 6-0, but got jipped on the conversion. Logan came back and scored and went up 7-6.. From there it was a defensive battle. with about two minutes to go Logan marched down to our 20 but fumbled. we marched back to the Logan 45 with about 1:20 left. Colten ran a hand off to the right side and got hit in the backfield but pushed up into the pile. My dad said he thought the play was dead it was on the other side of the field until the other teams fans started shouting, he came out of the other side of the pile, broke one more tackle and raced 45 yards down the sideline, and no one was gonna catch him then. To go up 12-7, they tried to pass but it fell short. They hung on for the last minute twenty. had a 4 and out.

total stats were about
170-180 yards and 1 TD on I have no idea how many carries, it was a lot. Our line was outmatched bad.
about 50 recieving yards on 1 catch and 1 TD
 
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OK, OK, hold onto your panties!

We played a prety darn good Centerville team on Saturday.

We went 10 plays to their 13 yard line, got stopped on downs, they went 87 yards for TD on their first play from scrimmage. Right past Nightmare, who seemed to be asleep at the wheel from his field-side LB spot.
So then we go 65 yards in 21 plays (Woody would have been proud!) and score a TD. We had the little guys in on the O-line, so no plays over 8 yards. but it's pretty impressive for a team of 1st and 2nd graders to sustain a 21 play drive!
they get the ball and fumble the first snap, then run a reverse for 65 yards and a TD! Time to officially panic! The reverse came back to Nightmare's side, and he played it perfectly, but whiffed on the tackle 2 yards deep in the backfield, and the rest of the team was nowhere to be found.
Then we were moving but ran out of time before we could score - Nightmare had a 25 or 30 yard run called back for holding right before the half.
2nd half we shut them down - Nightmare got his butt in gear on defense and we had 2 more long drives, 6 plays for 70 yards and 17 plays for 77 yards. Ronnie score both 2nd half TDs and we won 18-12.

For the game we ran 59 plays from scrimmage and they ran 16. Ronnie had to carry the load offensively for the first time this year (as far as # of carries). Including 2 extra point tries, he had 25 carries for 199 yards and 2 TDs. Discovered later that day that he was coming down with the flu - that may explain the first half sluggishness on defense, i don't know. but once we got more aggressive on defense, we did not have any trouble with their speed guys breaking containment.

The next 4 or 5 games are against weaker competition, so he won't be getting many carries, but we'll see how it goes.
 
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We played a weaker team yesterday, so Nightmare only got 2 carries. 30-some yards and a TD. then we let some of the other guys have some fun. almost had another INT (would have been a TD, too) but the other linebacker and him ended up bobbling it between them and neither one caught it.
the next 4 games are against similar competition, I think, so he won't be doing as much on offense. Time to focus on defense and lay some wood!
 
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Yesterday was another "fun" game against unfortunately a weaker team.
Nightmare only had 1 carry for a 60 yard TD. and another INT returned for a TD which was called back for a block in the back (about 20 yards behind Nightmare - he was GONE)
About all of the guys who normally would never carry the ball got to "tote the rock" yesterday - the hard part was trying to figure out how to not score more than 35 points - it was 27-0 at the half. it's cool to be able to let these guys get some carries, because once they move beyond Bantam football, most of them will never get to carry a football in a real game again. We make it a huge deal each year to not only get every player some carries, but to try to get them an opprotunity to score, even if only an extra point.
Anyway, 4 more games like this one and then the playoffs start. then it's down to business and putting the hammer down!
 
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This past saturday Colten's team played Trimble to a score 18-6.
Colten scored all 3 TDs for Miller one of a recovery of the qbs fumble, would have been 4 had one not been called back. Still waiting on rushing yards and carries, he finally got to play linebacker, still dont have stats on that either. I'll update tonight.

He has been playing tailback and safety/Lb to this point, although now in practice it looks like he will be taking over at Qb.. This occured after he was practicing a halfback pass and the coaches realized that 11 years old that little twerp can appearantly throw it 50 yards..
 
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