This week's bizarre high school football score

Not shocking.

 

Covered a state championship game today where the score got a little out of hand. Team A scored on the first possession of the second half to go up 38-0, which triggered the running clock the rest of the way. One of the assistant coaches on Team B's sideline started grumbling to a guy on the chain gang about how they shouldn't have the mercy rule in a championship game, which led to this exchange:

ASSISTANT: It's ridiculous that they do that in a championship game.
CHAIN GANG GUY: Well coach, that's been the rule all year. You've done it to a bunch of people.
ASSISTANT: Well, it's different when they're whippin' our ass.

 

Seen pregame tonight. Cute.

 

It's so fun when a team that pulls that crap all year long (or for several years) finally gets the cannons turned on them.

 

How'd it go for them?

 

The running clock gets triggered when a team gets up by 35 at any point in the second half. In this particular league (a private school 8-man league) it's not hard for the better teams to do it often. This particular team wins a lot of blowouts that reach that point, but it's not because they're running up the score.

 

Well, they won of course. Cheerleader smack talk always works.

 

That's true for any association that hews to NFHS rules.

In Texas you take your beatdown in regulation time unless your violator shows mercy, because a running clock has to be by mutual agreement.

 

Not bizarre, but about as wild as you can get. An 8th grader was named the MVP of Alabama's 7A state title game.

https://www.al.com/highschoolsports...-trent-seaborn-shines-in-ahsaa-title-win.html

 

One of the Minnesota title games, Hail Mary and lateral to win it.