The Pussification of America Continues: QB Gets an Unsportsmanlike Penalty for Jumping Over a Defender
Yahoo! – Rarely have we featured a more impressive and natural hurdle than the one you see below, as turned in by Tracy (Cal.) Kimball High star Zack Johnson. Unfortunately for Johnson and Kimball, his touchdown on the play didn’t count, just like some past hurdling heroics that were called back for a penalty because of the apparently unsportsmanlike act of hurdling a defender.
Wait. What? It’s unsportsmanlike to jump over someone who’s trying to tackle you? Even if he dives at your knees like this kid did? What am I missing? Is there some kind of rule in California that outlaws being agile and athletic? What about if you juke a kid because you have quicker feet than him? Or bury your shoulder and run through him because you’re stronger? Or, God forbid, outrun him because you’re faster than he is? Are those allowed or are they unsportsmanlike too? I mean, if jumping over a kid who’s selling out to go low on you is a 15 yard penalty, what’s to stop the defense from just laying all 11 guys across the field end to end like a speed bump? And if they do, can you step over them or are you have to stop and lay on the ground so you’re being “sportsmanlike”? As a low-level assistant coach for a JV team of 6th graders whose varsity just won the Pee Wee Super Bowl, I think I’m qualified to say that when they start outlawing plays just because they’re awesome, we are in for some dark days ahead, my friends. @JerryThornton1
Well this is marvelous. What’s next, unnecessary roughness penalties for routine tackles?
Imagine the penalty that kid got in the “Hello!” commercial
“As a low-level assistant coach for a JV team of 6th graders whose varsity just won the Pee Wee Super Bowl..”
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It might not sound like much, but in about 3 months time Norv Turner will be green with envy that you have that position and he doesn’t.
I don’t know, he did jump rather high. Totally unfair that he gets to run AND jump. Fuckin ‘Merica
I understand the penalty. He made the defender feel bad by not allowing the defender to tackle him, and he scored a touchdown. I wonder if the defenders mother is going to sue YouTube because the video made her son look bad. This country is going down the shitter.
So it’s unsportsmanlike to be a superior sportsman, yeah that makes sense.
the authorities allow #thesanduskyofworcester to be around 6th graders???
The terrorists have won.
Maybe they should be more worried that he stepped out of bounds
Your low-level JV team of 6th graders whose varsity just won the Pee Wee Super Bowl > anything whitesoxgave’s d3 softball team has ever done
no one is going to ever confuse me with a right-winger. i don’t necessarily identify myself as a liberal either. i’d call myself ‘indifferent, blissfully ignorant, and leaning slightly left, mostly in the sense of social issues.” but one of my main concerns is political correctness. i don’t care what side of the political aisle you sit on, just please don’t be a soft-serve pussy, particularly over shit that doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of life. every time i see some shit like this, a little piece of my soul dies. sorry, lefties…i’m blaming you for this one.
That was awesome! Great block by #7 too.
Welcome to Obama’s America
of all the pussification of americas this is by far the worstpussification
Rolltide, I was going to write something similar before, but refrained. Since you’ve gone there, though, I will chime in and say that it is guaranteed that at least 90% of the people making and supporting these kinds of decisions vote Democrat.
Uhh. That’s complete bullshit. Was is the replacement refs?
i dont want to live on this planet anymore.
This can’t be for real. What’s next? Is there going to be technicals for holding beautiful follow throughs up after netting a jumper in an opponents grill mix?! In words of Wesley snipes from white men can’t jump “that’s so pretty, I’m just going to keep it up there for a while.”
They probably dragged him downtown for pictures and prints. Grand theft – yardage.
Those of you bringing politics into this need a punch in the throat. Get a life you fucking blowjobs
damn you guys are dumb as shit yeah its a stupid rule but its called high school football… did no one play back in the day? clearly thornton played soccer. this guy sucks prez come on
HELLLOO..
white people aren’t aloud to preform athletic moves like these. damn you obama
Why was this post so short, Jerry? I was floored when I saw the thornton tag at the bottom.
Not to be a debbie downer here, but I’m pretty sure that “Hurdling” is a 15 yard penalty only in HS Football.
Mags is right – in NFHS football rules (not NCAA, which Mass HS uses) hurdling is a 15 yard personal foul (NOT unsportsmanlike – the article gets this part wrong).