Wow. There's a coach who likes to win. Message to his tots: trick your enemy. lol.

Not sure if it's a good value to instill, but it's effective!!!

I mean, it IS innovative and you HAVE to know the rules and work them to the limit.

 

Certainly not nice to do at THAT young level.

 

We ran the play in highschool where the QB would be walking off the field and then direct snap to the RB, but it failed horribly.

This is pretty ingenious, but not really what you want to see in minis.

 

I gotta try this one with my pee wee football team.

 

In the main forum....really?
there are already threads on this

 

If you play under the NFHS rule book, it's hit or miss as to whether it will be ruled an illegal play. The play is called "Wrong ball" and it's not exactly new.

My guess is that Driscoll was walking the ball to the line judge.

The second video will show you complete with audio of how it is done.


YouTube - Great trick football play

YouTube - Wrong Ball Trick Play

YouTube - The Dirtiest trick Play in Football History

YouTube - Hayden Jr. Football - Trick Play

 

I'll tell you something though....Every time this thing hit the news, I reviewed it with my team. :lol:

There is a rule in the NFHS rule book that addresses deception. I'm too lazy to look it up right now. But the rule clearly makes this play illegal. It's bantered back and forth every other time I get with a group of coaches. I have found that high school officials barely know the rules of the game much less an obscure rule about deception using officials and equipment. THAT is why I review it with my team.

Anyway, it goes like this:

"Coach, this isn't our ball."

"What?"

"It's the wrong ball."

"Well give it to the official!"

or

"Bring it here!"


Notice that everyone on the offense is set. Nobody is moving.

The ball has to be snapped. The rulebook does not address anything but a snapper and another player to receive the snap. So the snap is simply handed back to the player rather than through the legs to add to the "it's not a play" affect.

Where is the deception? It's in the speech. If you watch the coach on the sideline of the Driscoll game, you can SEE him telling him to give it to the official. THAT is a clear violation of the rule book by using the officials for deception. No coach worth his salt would ever dispute that. Which is why most that use the play tell the player to "bring it here".

 

You want to see something funny. This is an example of the quality of officiating you receive in youth league. Look at the second video in my post. Watch the referee behind the Eagles or the green team. He is looking at his watch anxiously awaiting the opportunity to call a delay of game.............AFTER THE BALL IS SNAPPED!!!!

 

Look around a little further and you find what would happen to your quarterback in the NFL.

YouTube - Trick Play in football gone bad

 

Are you allowed to turn around and hand the ball to the QB like that?

 

Yes, the rule book addresses a snapper and a player to receive the snap. It does not address the actual snap other than to say it has to be behind the snapper.

Here is my favorite trick play......and it's legal.



YouTube - Best Football Trick Play

 

Wow, lol. I wonder how many times he tried that pass? Too much or too little in one direction and that play is screwed.

 

That's some Bugs Bunny Sh!t right there...

Immediately the defense starts taking out kids kneecaps.

 

god why can't henning come up with creative plays like the wrong ball!!

 

Talk about viral, that school is in Texas and there was an article in my local paper about the play and I live in CT!

For those wondering about the circumstances behind the play, google "middle-school trick play becomes sensation" and you'll find a bunch of AP articles on it.

(sorry I can't post links yet, as I just joined this site but I recognize a lot of names from other sites)

The abbreviated version is that it was late in the game and they were down 6-0. They set up the play by using a hard count to get the defense to jump and then disputed whether the penalty should have been 5 or 10 yards. Although you can't here it on the video, apparently the coach is yelling to the QB to just mark off the additional 5 yards himself, which is what the QB is pretending to do in the play.

I never knew you could hike a ball over your shoulder though, but I guess why would you under normal circumstances.

 

NFHS Case Book:

Football has been and always will be a game of deception and trickery involving multiple shifts, unusual formations and creative plays. However, actions or verbiage designed to confuse the defense into believing there is problem and a snap isn’t imminent is beyond the scope of sportsmanship and is illegal.

 

well this play was done at NFL level too, cant remember which team though, could be the pats or even the steelers or the rams, just cant remember but it happened

 

THE KORDELL PLAY!! Love it!!!

 

Kordell Stewart of the PIT Steelers back in the day.

 

You shut your mouth and don't anyone in this thread let ANY of these videos cross Dan Henning's desk. He WILL incorporate them into our first down offense.

 

I don't remember Kordelia running the play but I do remember Peyton Manning running it and it absolutely snookered the defense.

Since then I see it being run probably once or twice a year.

 

It's too late, mate. He's getting there. Sooner or later he'll figure out that it's "wrong ball" and not "wrong call".