A Brain Lock That This Kid Will Not Soon Forget
High School Sports, Video September 30th. 2009, 5:30pmTeam trails by two with seconds left. Attempts game-winning field goal. It misses. Fast-forward to 1:30 to see what happened after the opponent caught the short field goal attempt inside the five-yard line. [via Hot Clicks]
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September 30th, 2009 at 5:36 PM
wow that poor kid is gonna die wearing his letterman jacket 20 years from now with a suicide note that says “play til the whistle….”.
September 30th, 2009 at 5:36 PM
ouch… that’s bad. I mean, change schools now bad.
September 30th, 2009 at 5:38 PM
lolz. OOPSIES.
September 30th, 2009 at 5:38 PM
yea I would hate to be that kids dad.
September 30th, 2009 at 5:42 PM
reminds me of Plax in his Steeler days. But 100x worse. Not shot in the leg, two years in jail bad. Close, tho.
September 30th, 2009 at 5:45 PM
Poor kid.
idiot.
September 30th, 2009 at 5:47 PM
RIP moron. This won’t end well.
September 30th, 2009 at 5:47 PM
I don’t watch it, and I didn’t send that in, but that’s my local news!
September 30th, 2009 at 5:47 PM
RIP moron. This won’t end well.
It’s Vermont, ding ding, nothing’s going to happen to him.
September 30th, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Didn’t see the state, you are right.
September 30th, 2009 at 5:49 PM
Desean Jackson is proud
September 30th, 2009 at 5:51 PM
what idiot coach puts kids back there anyway? That’s a dead ball unless the defense touches it. The coaches put them in the position to make that stupid play.
September 30th, 2009 at 5:52 PM
good point. +1
September 30th, 2009 at 5:55 PM
Chicago Tribune is for idiots
September 30th, 2009 at 5:57 PM
That some of the worst coaching ever. Not one but two kids back there. How about, you know, trying to block a game winning kick. What an imbecile.
September 30th, 2009 at 5:58 PM
i hope he is nothing like that injury prone bum.
/small sample size’d
September 30th, 2009 at 5:58 PM
I can remember a play in an NFL game from a long, long time ago. Not the who or the when, just the play. Some receiver makes an absolutely incredible circus style catch in the middle of the field, twisting or something. He rolls over on the ground and, from his back, holds the ball up triumphantly to show he caught it and had it.
The nearest defender stole the ball out of his hands without touching him, and sprinted for an easy TD. I don’t remember much else. If I had to guess, I’d say the Oilers were involved.
September 30th, 2009 at 6:02 PM
Considering the kick was 45 yards or so–long by high school standards–it makes a lot of sense to put a couple guys back there to guard against the fake. Or if the kick gets blocked and recovered by someone on the offense. The bad coaching was not telling him to run away from the ball or hit the deck if he caught it.
September 30th, 2009 at 6:12 PM
Hadn’t thought about the fake part. Did that kick even make the end zone?
September 30th, 2009 at 6:15 PM
Something like this happened here in the playoffs years ago. 4th down, clock stopped with like 8 seconds to play, team with the ball was up 1. So they snap the ball and just run around for a bit until time expires, at which point the kid with the ball threw it up, and out of the back of the endzone.
September 30th, 2009 at 6:22 PM
A blocked kick wouldn’t matter, unless it didn’t cross the line of scrimmage. If it crosses the line of scrimmage, it’s still a dead ball.
Why would they run a fake field goal with 1.6 seconds to play instead of a hail mary? I think you’d be better off getting your actual receivers into the end zone than the wingmen on your field goal team.
The bad coaching was having guys back there in a position to field that ball. If it got to there, there was no fake. If you were really that worried about a fake, you can line them up 12 yards deep, maybe, but not 30 yards downfield.
September 30th, 2009 at 6:29 PM
The mistake actually was allowing your kids to play sports in Vermont…
September 30th, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Dirt, I’d agree with you if we were talking NFL or college.
With high school kids, I might go with the fake. With hail mary, the D just lines up kids to guard the end zone, making it a tougher pass for the QB (who probably isn’t that strong or accurate to begin with).
With a fake, most of the guys are going for the block. So a receiver just needs to get a few yards down the field–a much easier pass–then figure out what to do against the dudes on the goal line. On the other side, unless you’re sure that your DBs won’t blow the coverage, then you stick them back at the goal line.
October 1st, 2009 at 2:02 AM
TBL Godfather and all, do you recall that Tiki Barber cited Jeremiah Trotter, having to take hard hits from him twice a year, as one key reason for his retirement as well?
Do you really think Trotter can’t hit as hard?
TBL would you really be as critical if the Jets or Giants were to sign him?
No one said “boo” when the Patriots signed a much older Seau, and it turned out to be a great coup by Belichek again.
October 1st, 2009 at 2:03 AM
Damnit wrong post on Trotter …