I have been noticing alot of flak over high school football teams scoring alot of points and killing other teams. And the coaches and the players are catching all grades of flak over it. WHy is it that people don't seem to realize that football is a game. Someone Is GOING TO WIN, and there is always a loser. You can NOT have 2 winners in every game. This everyone is a winner thing has gotten out of control. If you never lose,, how can you ever hope to learn to win right? It makes no sense to me. People bellyache over anything that they view as not right,, or bad sportsmanship. If an NFL team won a game 67 to nothing,, no one is going to raise cain about it, cept the losers. The winning team is not going to lose their coach over the win. Football is a sport,, someone is always going to win, someone is always going to lose, its the way the game is played.

i think it's mainly when teams run up the score for no reason.i think this has became a big issue in the town i live in because another team that we play (that isn't in our conference)runs up the score on everyone they play,so they went to the state about it and tried to get it made to where all private schools in the state would have to play their own tournament/championship


of course it was voted down and we did take them off the junior high schedule but they're on senior high schedule til 2012


it's more about Sportsmanship than anything else.hell our junior high team won't even celebrate when they get a touchdown.they just hand the ball to the ref and go back to the huddle

Mike Leach (Texas Tech coach) has been criticized for running up the score

he said "My boys play football on every play. I never let them coast. Ever. If you don't like it, stop em"

Its a game,,, Sportsman ship is not playing dirty, using foul language, talking alot of junk while playing,, just being decent. Some teams are really good,, and if a team cant stop them,, what do people want them to do,,, stand there and let other teams score on them? how would that be fair to anyone?

I see the point when the kids are 5. But, you'd think by the time they hit high school and that level of competition, they'd realize that already. I don't think it's the kids, though. Usually, it's the parents. I coached both soccer and baseball and let me tell you, we had more problems with parents than we ever did with the kids.

im sorry to say it this way,, well,, no im not,, but i cant say that its bad sportmanship if one team kills another. i have played games where we had lopsided victories and losses. when we lost,, we pulled out of it,, got stronger,, and it didnt happen again. when we won, we looked back,, figured out what we did right, and kept on doing it.