Tag Archives: Flag Football

Referee

I did a much better job this time. The problem was the game wasn’t nearly as good. There really isn’t a mercy rule, what we do is if you go up by 3 scores then you are only allowed 6 players (normally 8 players) and you only get 3 downs on offense (and you have to punt, no option), but that wasn’t enough for the game to turn into something ugly. The teacher who put this all together he warned me. He said “it’s going to be a massacre”. I sort of knew he’d be right. When it got to be 47 to 8 both teams decided it was over. Seemed like a good decision to me.

That’s another hour and a half towards my 50!

Referee

I got to play referee for a flag football game today. I’m getting hours in on my required observation hours by doing it. It was a lot of fun. I got to run around outside and hang out with the kids that I usually only get to see inside a classroom. It’s a whole new experience from what I’ve been doing. Education is fun in ways you never think about.

I did a pretty sloppy job, but the whole coed league just got put together in a few weeks, so next time we will have enough cones, a stop watch, and maybe even some real flags. I’ll probably get better at it as well.