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I'm not sure if this should be in general discussions or not Mods, so if I'm in the wrong place I apologize in advance. I didn't really see a specific forum for this kind of question, etc.
My son and I have had a minor debate going on for the last few months regarding his middle school coach and a practice that he discouraged his players from practicing.
I have coached little league football for nine years now, and one of the things we have always done, is to ask our players to take a knee when someone is hurt on the field. I'm not sure where it came from. I don't know if it was originally intended to help the coaches control the kids while they were dealing with the injury, or perhaps if it originally started with coaches encouraging the kids to take a knee and pray for someone.
This past year his coach discouraged the kids from taking a knee, even to the point of telling them NOT to do it when their parents were yelling at them to do so from the stands ( I don't approve of parents getting involved in that manner either but it happens).
Finally in our debate, I took to the internet to find facts and see what other's outside of our area thought. I could find very little when I attempted to google it, but one article did have a group of high school coaches who were asked and it gave their responses. Out of approximately 10 coaches polled on the question, only two said they required their team to do so. The rest either allowed their kids to do so if they wished, or in a few cases discouraged it simply to keep their own kids from cramping up in cold weather.
I know I have seen The Broncos take a knee at times. I know I have seen it done as a team, and by individuals at the NFL and college levels. It's not seen in every game though, and sometimes even with serious injuries you don't see it. My question for our fans,"Is taking a knee something players should do as a sign of respect?"
I finally convinced our middle school coach that he needed to let the kids do so, even if there was no valid reasoning, simply because it was something that the kids in our entire area had been doing since they were 5-6 years old. If our team was the only ones not doing it, it made us look classless to the other teams, even if there was no logical reason FOR doing it to begin with. My other question for everyone on here would be, is this done in your areas? I'd be interested in knowing how widespread it is and whether its something we like seeing when our Broncos are on the field as well.
Thanks for the input, in advance.....Go Broncos
My son and I have had a minor debate going on for the last few months regarding his middle school coach and a practice that he discouraged his players from practicing.
I have coached little league football for nine years now, and one of the things we have always done, is to ask our players to take a knee when someone is hurt on the field. I'm not sure where it came from. I don't know if it was originally intended to help the coaches control the kids while they were dealing with the injury, or perhaps if it originally started with coaches encouraging the kids to take a knee and pray for someone.
This past year his coach discouraged the kids from taking a knee, even to the point of telling them NOT to do it when their parents were yelling at them to do so from the stands ( I don't approve of parents getting involved in that manner either but it happens).
Finally in our debate, I took to the internet to find facts and see what other's outside of our area thought. I could find very little when I attempted to google it, but one article did have a group of high school coaches who were asked and it gave their responses. Out of approximately 10 coaches polled on the question, only two said they required their team to do so. The rest either allowed their kids to do so if they wished, or in a few cases discouraged it simply to keep their own kids from cramping up in cold weather.
I know I have seen The Broncos take a knee at times. I know I have seen it done as a team, and by individuals at the NFL and college levels. It's not seen in every game though, and sometimes even with serious injuries you don't see it. My question for our fans,"Is taking a knee something players should do as a sign of respect?"
I finally convinced our middle school coach that he needed to let the kids do so, even if there was no valid reasoning, simply because it was something that the kids in our entire area had been doing since they were 5-6 years old. If our team was the only ones not doing it, it made us look classless to the other teams, even if there was no logical reason FOR doing it to begin with. My other question for everyone on here would be, is this done in your areas? I'd be interested in knowing how widespread it is and whether its something we like seeing when our Broncos are on the field as well.
Thanks for the input, in advance.....Go Broncos
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