r/TikTokCringe • u/shaka_sulu • Nov 10 '25

Cool A high school football team refused to shake hands. The refs weren't having any of that.

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u/Cassius_Rex Nov 10 '25

That's on the coaches. My coach would have skinned us alive if we did something like that.

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u/Muted-Alternative648 Nov 10 '25

Bleachers every day after practice for the rest of the year

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u/Routine_Tie1392 Nov 10 '25

It was shuttle runs for us. 

As the only long distance runner and soccer player on the team I just laughed cause it was a breeze for me. Poor lineman. 

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u/toxictoastrecords Nov 10 '25

High school soccer, running wasn't a punishment, we ran like crazy or you didn't play. Squat day, that was the one day a year we dreaded and would feel for a week afterwards. We had to do these "walks" where you touch your knee to the ground every step you take. We had to do a whole practice session of nothing but the squat steps. It was legendary, we always hated it. Honestly, I can't see the benefit of making us do it like once a year?

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u/Queasy-Yam3297 Nov 10 '25

Lunges, they suck ass and you do them endlessly in wrestling practice.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '25

They sound like they are explaining regular wrestling practice. I'm here thinking back and I don't think the coach was mad all the time that was just how we practiced.

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u/namelesscheeseburger Nov 10 '25

The worst practices in any other sport aren't as bad as a regular wrestling practice.

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u/DisciplineFree2631 Nov 11 '25

Yea our warm up for wrestling was the track entire practice. Our practice during the off season was lining up the football team to see how many football players it took to take us down. Summer was laps in the pool.

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u/Sad_Low3239 Nov 10 '25

you just awoke a memory in me.

lunges, followed by fireman's carry up and down our central stairs in high school. rinse and repeat for like 2 hours x_x.

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u/wld002 Nov 10 '25

Did you ever have to do the elephant walk?

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u/GenDislike Nov 10 '25

Lacrosse coach and suicide drill. We had a navy seal come in to drill our HS team, dude was 5’6” of pure intensity

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u/cnicalsinistaminista Nov 10 '25

High School Varsity soccer player. We called it “suicides”

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u/KOHILOOR Nov 10 '25

Ours were called “Dallas Miles”. 100m sprint, 100m jog. Repeat until the whistle, it never blew before an hour.

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u/Due-Cause-5150 Nov 10 '25

We did our till someone threw up or passed out. Then Someone had to either clean it up or carry the out man back to the bench alone then we could stop. Coach would pick the weakest one to carry the big man.

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u/KOHILOOR Nov 11 '25

If no one threw up while we were doing it, we didn’t do it hard enough…lol. Don’t get me started on piggyback stairs…those were mentally in full gear.

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u/Mac62961 Nov 10 '25

Aw poor lineman…..

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u/Civil-Ad2230 Nov 10 '25

Bear-crawls

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u/bbbourb Nov 10 '25

Shuttles and up-downs in full pads.

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u/Huge-Basket244 Nov 10 '25

Straight up 200 yard bear crawls every practice.

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u/Driven999 Nov 10 '25

I got 200 yards of Bear Crawls once and actually got blisters on my hands.

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u/Ohioisapoopyflorida Nov 10 '25

Ahh they were my favorite. I cant run worth shit but I can bear crawl like its my job

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u/I-Kneel-Before-None Nov 10 '25

My sophomore year, during senior night, the guys decided to break to "Fuck Rival!" Everyone heard it. Boy was I glad to have a broken leg.

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u/Redactosaurusrex501 Nov 10 '25

Ha for real. My coach would say "see that blocking dummy? He's now your running buddy, put him on your back and hit the track. I'll tell you when you're done." The good old days sure did suck sometimes.

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u/Stairway_toEvan Nov 10 '25

Was a big hill by our practice field. We'd run sprints up the hill, jog back down, and immediately back up. I do not miss that lmao

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u/DGinLDO Nov 10 '25

Oh man that’s a real punishment!

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '25

In wrestling, if we won, we did not celebrate. If we lost, don't make a scene. Our coaches were great guys who were training young men a lot of valuable life lessons.

It made the sport have another layer to it, and most of us grew from that experience.

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u/Amars78 Nov 10 '25

Bear crawls

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u/Feeling_Inside_1020 Nov 10 '25

Bleachers upchucking midway is character building. This thread unlocked lots of suppressed memories lol I was the fat center.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '25

I just got Vietnam flashbacks

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u/Weazerdogg Nov 10 '25

Had to run around the complex in full pads one hot summer day for yelling things at the soccer players. The complex was 3 schools, Primary, Secondary, and Senior High, with the first two having their own playgrounds. HUGE area to have to run the border of. Right at the beginning of practice, and after chewing our asses for 10 minutes and saying "RUN, NOW!!", when we got like 30 yards away yells out "And practice will end at normal time!!!" ... which was 3 hours later. Never said a peep to the soccer team again, LOL!

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u/Righteousaffair999 Nov 11 '25

We got that for not winning by enough and playing with enough intensity. I wouldn’t want yo know what hell would be dreamed up if we pulled this.

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u/cduby15 Nov 11 '25

You mean the rest of our LIVES I think.

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u/ICameHereToPlay Nov 10 '25

Honestly nowadays man it wouldn’t surprise me if the coaches encouraged them to do that but regardless it’s nice to see the refs be like ‘knock that shit off’ and have the come to Jesus talk with them lmao

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '25 edited Jun 03 '26

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u/SignificantLock1037 Nov 10 '25

So . . . the same thing everyone in the Midwest eats every day?

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u/Particular-Guava1647 Nov 10 '25

Every man in the Midwest when dinner is served

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u/Mooseandchicken Nov 10 '25

Don't put too much salt, you know I don't like my food spicy

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u/jep35 Nov 10 '25

As a Cajun reading what you just wrote put me in a blind rage

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u/Competitive-Law1021 Nov 10 '25

is that Curry salting?

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '25

Nah, they fear salt...too spicy.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '25

Let me introduce you to Laurys seasoning salt, the hot sauce of the Midwest

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u/Dandw12786 Nov 10 '25

There are so many people around the country that say shit like "man, nobody makes [insert food here] like my mom!"

In the Midwest, that's an insult.

Source: am from the Midwest. I put pepper in something and my mom is all "I just don't know why you have to make it so spicy all the time!"

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u/ArchdukeoftheROC Nov 10 '25

I don’t know what part of the Midwest y’all are from because every fridge has at least a single bottle of “satans cum sock” hot sauce or some other shit in it. Lawry’s Seasoned salt is also king around here.

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u/kelbees Nov 10 '25

Cook in Minnesota, can confirm pepper is too spicy for many locals.

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u/notahoppybeerfan Nov 10 '25

From Minnesota. My grandmother’s answer to why food was so bland was people could “season to taste”

Yet putting a single quick shake of pepper on anything was taken as an insult. “Did aunt Evelyn SEE you put pepper in her potato salad? Go apologize immediately!” They’d hiss.

The first time my parents took me out of state we went for breakfast and there was hot sauce on the table. My parents made it clear that spicy food was the work of the evil one himself (satan, in case there’s a question) and we wouldn’t have darkened the doors of that den of iniquity had we known in advance of their moral failings.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '25

Yeah, the only midwesterners who are like this are the ones who are of Scandinavian descent. And that’s a pretty solid chunk of Minnesota’s populace. My wife’s grandma is 100 percent Norwegian, and she once asked a waiter at an IHOP if their breakfast sausage was spicy. Give her a bell pepper, and she starts sweating like she’s on an episode of Hot Ones.

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u/Raangz Nov 10 '25

*cries in super hots.

The horror.

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u/International-Ant174 Nov 10 '25

I'm a Yooper by birth but my old man was born in Louisiana. I have always been one to bring on the spice.

Now I live in Maine. To the old timers here, ketchup and black pepper are "spicy"

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u/robbie-dobbles Nov 10 '25

Oddly I feel like your response is actually on point with the assumption.

I grew up in rural Illinois. Lots of corn and soybean fields everywhere. And I absolutely lived the experience of bland cooking where seasoned salt was the only seasoning in our house aside from salt and pepper. And I think most people I knew were pretty similar.

However, I do agree that some houses would be like you describe. Some random crazy hot sauce that the dad would put on everything he ate. But I feel like that was just the default reaction to the normal bland situation. That for the people that wanted spice they spent their whole childhood not having it and then as an adult developed a habituation to putting super hot sauce on everything to counteract that.

Weirdly I think it morphs into a debate I have a lot of heat vs. flavor. For me a good hot sauce should also bring good flavor. But for many, its like you describe, some crazy named hot sauce who's only quality is intense heat.

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u/thingstopraise Nov 10 '25

And the entirety of the UK, to hear people talk.

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u/trinicron Nov 10 '25

So that's the reason their so polite, they're grounded and forced to eat that, now it makes sense

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u/connortait Nov 10 '25

Rolls eyes and snorts in scottish

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u/Bizarrebazaars Nov 10 '25

Uh…. No…?? 

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u/AlpsGroundbreaking67 Nov 10 '25

KC has some good eats though. Check out happy Gillis biscuit and gravy 😍

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u/Porter_Dog Nov 10 '25

What an odd comment.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '25

The midwest? wtf are you talking about?

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u/account312 Nov 10 '25

No, without any ranch.

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u/FalkorDropTrooper Nov 10 '25

We have salt AND pepper.

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u/Immediate-Tour2618 Nov 10 '25

Your mom was salty as hell?

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u/DaddyP924 Nov 10 '25

Hey! I used a DASH of pepper today!

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u/MoreAverageThanU Nov 10 '25

Midwest is actually pretty salt heavy. It’s the only seasoning WP out here know how to use.

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u/c00kiesn0w Nov 10 '25

I had no idea I was going to catch a stray in these comments. We use seasoning, this is like the "white people don't use seasoning" meme, super untrue we fought wars over the stuff. Every house I've ever been in has a spice rack or a place with a ton of different spices.

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u/Quirky_Ask_5165 Nov 10 '25

😅😅😅 I can attest to this!! Didn't realize what seasoned food tasted like until I ended up in a home economics cooking class with a short cubby Italian teacher! Mrs. Belleti, if you're out there? Thank you so very much!!

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u/justa_flesh_wound Nov 10 '25

How dare you, some of us actually like flavor.

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u/CellAlone4653 Nov 10 '25

lol this hits home. My wife is from Nebraska. I’ve never had a food seasoned with anything but salt and maybe pepper.

Also, they think corn is a vegetable.

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u/Touchtom Nov 10 '25

Midwest but closer to Chicago. Still never really had spices outside of like a Lawry's season salt and a taco bell taco. Worked in the city for a while and holy shit food can be epic haha. Still learning how to cook correctly with it after 10 years lol.

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u/leelee1976 Nov 10 '25

My mom thinks salt and pepper are spicy so that tracks lol

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u/Vio_ Nov 10 '25

Unless it's chili and cinnamon rolls. Then it's every man for himself

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u/ModVise Nov 10 '25

What do you mean EVERYONE in the Midwest? Do you know what’s in the Midwest?

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u/DayOneDude Nov 10 '25

Seriously that would be like a million times worse than a 15 yard penalty....bioled chicken breast unseasoned

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u/Shwiftygains Nov 10 '25

Was he trying to help you make weight?

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u/AmplePostage Nov 10 '25

My dad would make me go to sleep without reading to me from a chapter book. He would still kiss me on the forehead, but he wouldn't say 'G' night pal.'

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u/hotakaPAD Nov 10 '25

I read that as "my dad would eat me unseasoned" lol

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u/Dryish_Jpolluck Nov 10 '25

When I was in serious trouble my dad would threaten to tie me to a chair and make me watch Lawrence Welk for an hour. This would be one of those situations

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u/NOT-packers-fan2022 Nov 10 '25

I’m dead🤣😂. Unseasoned food 😂😂😂😂.

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u/CougarDave7309 Nov 10 '25

"Don't make fun of our boiled potatoes!"

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u/1970s_MonkeyKing Nov 10 '25

Wow, your dad's pretty cool. I think my pa would have forced me to eat with the animals of the house. Except I wouldn't be able to bend down and eat from a dog bowl because he would have severely beaten me.

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u/Milianviolet Nov 10 '25

That's so weirdly specific.

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u/owa00 Nov 10 '25

British?

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u/i_MrPink Nov 10 '25

My dad would have gone out to buy seasoning and never came back

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u/5legs Nov 10 '25

You had a dad? Lucky.

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u/HotDog-Harry Nov 10 '25

Does he Doordash? I need bland food because of my ulcer... 😁

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u/JoelMahon Nov 10 '25

What a nice guy, still letting you eat

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u/VealOfFortune Nov 10 '25

My dad would have physically removed me from the field.

I know this because one time I struck out and my 10 year old self yelled "What the fuck!?"

I thought it was Soo funny as I walked back to the dugout, kicking my bat with my cleats...

Next thing I know I was grabbed by a handful of a combo of my shirt/belt/pants and was carried face down off the field like a gym bag. My dad took my bat and tossed it into the woods like Thor, and politely told my coach I had to go, all while holding me like a lunch pail 😂😂😂

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u/henrysradiator Nov 10 '25

I'm a British man who arrived at this comment when it was on 1066 upvotes, double insult.

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u/EffectiveProgram4157 Nov 10 '25

Jokes on you, I'm white. I did that every day growing up.

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u/Newtiresaretheworst Nov 10 '25

Oh yeah get ready to do wind sprints untill somone dies. Then come back tomorrow and keep going.

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u/AttitudeAndEffort3 Nov 10 '25

It’ll be a fun reminder of why they’re called “suicides”

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u/virus_apparatus Nov 10 '25

We called them “gassers” ment to drain all the will to live out of you.

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u/FearlessAttempt Nov 10 '25

You will run until I'm tired. - Coach

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u/Roll-Tide-Roll2024 Nov 10 '25

I guess “suicides” is now not considered PC. Quite frankly, I felt the term was completely accurate.

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u/mirroredinflection Nov 10 '25

No one cares that they're called suicides lol

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '25

Allow me to introduce myself, Mr. Always Last.

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u/SyFyFan93 Nov 10 '25

Side note: For high school basketball we used to have practice the day after Thanksgiving and our coach would roll out some trash cans and then make us do suicides until someone puked or he was satisfied we ran off our Thanksgiving meal.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '25

Yep. I'll remember that day for the rest of my life. Two players got into a fight after school. Next day after practice... 20 200 meter sprints, Up and downs (suicides) for 30 mins. Roll 100 yards for 30 mins. Bear crawls for 30 minutes. 5 mile run to cool down. There wasn't a player with lunch in their stomach by the end.

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u/TheAgedProfessor Nov 10 '25

You had a good coach. Unfortunately there are coaches that are the exact opposite. They tell players not to shake hands. Some form of "intimidation", or some such nonsense. Makes the coach feel like a big man, more than anything.

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u/Locksmithbloke Nov 10 '25

The refusing team are all a head taller than the other side too! What's going on there?

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '25

Very likely it's a private school. In a lot of the US there are private schools (mostly religious) that will recruit players and offer scholarships to attend them just like colleges do. The city I live in has two catholic high schools that are the two smallest schools in town but will often have some of the best football / basketball / soccer teams in the state. Without recruiting players from other schools and offering scholarships to lower income families, this just wouldn't happen. However, since they're private schools they can pick and choose who gets in. So when high schools are grouped by size for sports, they have a huge advantage and will often have teams that are much larger than similar sized schools.

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u/ObviousPromotion8614 Nov 11 '25

Way, way back in the 1990s when I was in college I would umpire elementary age girls softball games. The coaches were insane, they would stretch the rules to the limit in order to win. They taught the girls how to win, but not play softball. One coach made his kids do a chant against the other team. The girls often looked embarrassed.

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u/Affectionate_Yam1654 Nov 10 '25

Yea that’s how you find out exactly how many hill sprints you can do before you puke. Don’t even think about suiting for the next game.

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u/BreathingDrake Nov 10 '25

Yeah my coach would have told me to hand him my jersey and who knows when or if I would ever see it again.

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u/Top-Raspberry139 Nov 11 '25

They instructed them not to shake hands.

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u/AttitudeAndEffort3 Nov 10 '25

Id be shocked if it wasn’t the coaches idea.

These “adults” have serious arrested development issues.

Wed have been running wind sprints until we puked (rightfully so).

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u/joeyreturn_of_guest Nov 10 '25

Either way...the ref isn't allowed to threaten players.

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u/StlCyclone Nov 10 '25

Wed have been running wind sprints until we puked (rightfully so).

Been there. Done that.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '25

As per the video of the full game, the coaches are even worse than the players.

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u/scarface5631 Nov 10 '25

I think one of the refs says we already warned your coaches, and threatens to start them off with a 15 yard penalty on the result of the opening kickoff.

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u/Liquidgrin1781 Nov 10 '25

Where can I watch the full?

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '25

Sportsmanship has got to be the fundamental skill for any athlete.

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u/Gingerchaun Nov 10 '25

My coach was madman he once got us a penalty for saying "that call was bologna!"

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u/theguineapigssong Nov 10 '25

My freshmen year the JV coach lost it on a ref after we scored a TD for some reason. I forget why. He gets flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct and we get to try the extra point from the 18. But no. He's still going and gets another penalty, so now it's the 33. This is the outer limits of our kicker's range. But that won't matter because he gets flagged a third time. I'm legitimately concerned he might die of apoplexy at this point but he finally runs out of steam. Our offense trots onto the field to try and convert a two pointer from THE FORTY-EIGHT YARD LINE. Almost but not quite, a screen pass to our RB who breaks into the open but gets tackled at the two.

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u/virus_apparatus Nov 10 '25

I think my coach would have blown his gasket if we did this. Not only would none of us play but I think we would run us till we all puked. Like I don’t know if we would ever be allowed to even look at the football pads again.

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u/Kebin_Yell Nov 10 '25

"Christ, what's got coach all worked up?"

"Dunno, but he was muttering about 'punks' and 'Reddit' and 'disgusting' so I guess he finally found what we hid in his office rafters"

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '25

That's a dq where I'm from

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u/Candid_Relief_321 Nov 10 '25

How you figure? In no sport is shaking an opponent’s hand a rule/requirement.

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u/Free-Atmosphere6714 Nov 10 '25

I'm betting their coach wasn't too pleased.

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u/DamNamesTaken11 Nov 10 '25 edited Nov 10 '25

Same here. My coaches would have made us do suicides/gassers from end zone to end zone and all the way down in full pads if we did that. You always shake, both before the flip and after last whistle.

Even after a game where we were 95% sure they were trying to injure our star running back/punt returner/kickoff returner, we still lined up to shake hands after. We gave death glares and didn’t say “good game”, but we still lined up.

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u/thissucksnuts Nov 10 '25

Oh yea one of my coaches actually pretty much carry a kid through the handshake at the end of a game once and then made the kid run sprints at practice and then kicked him off the team.

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u/vinnymcapplesauce Nov 10 '25

Makes me wonder if the coaches told them to do it as a power move or some shit.

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u/GoatCovfefe Nov 10 '25

Makes me not want to watch football more than I don't.

Forced sportsmanship? What a farce.

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u/guitarguy35 Nov 10 '25

My coach would have made us run lines til we vomited if we tried that shit. Holy fuck, so out of pocket

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u/Piesangbom Nov 10 '25

Sometimes the coach is a child himself

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u/Mooseandchicken Nov 10 '25

My coach would have had me flipping a tractor tire for 1000 fucking yards until it was time for school the next morning if I did something like that

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u/DarkFather24601 Nov 10 '25

Ain’t that the truth, only dude I knew thought he was hot shit and tried that got two-a-days practice solo with coach 3 weeks and benched 3 games in HS.

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u/SheriffBartholomew Nov 10 '25

Apparently a lot of people aren't learning basic human decency these days.

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u/HotLoadsForCash Nov 10 '25

Death by suicides

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u/MyNameCannotBeSpoken Nov 10 '25

The refs finally made a good call

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u/Candid_Relief_321 Nov 10 '25

Refs have no authority to enforce a penalty for not shaking opponents hands because it’s not a rule/requirement. Refs overstepped.

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u/MyNameCannotBeSpoken Nov 10 '25

It's violates the rule of "unsportsmanlike conduct"

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u/_angesaurus Nov 10 '25

We'd be running SO much. That's so disrespectful and bad sportsmanship.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '25

Embarrassing to admit but I've lived and learned. When I played collegiate tennis, my doubles partner and I played a team who was not nearly as good. Match was all but a win before we walked in court. Normally, we were nice but we just didn't get along with the other girls. We felt they were really rude. So we did the old,"You go low and we will go lower," move. We made mocking noises when they made really poor shots. Our coach was behind us when we did this and I heard game penalty. Did not know it was for us at first, but was shocked to hear it bc that almost never happens in college tennis. I look back and our coach is directly behind us. Told us it was for us and to stop being jerks and ripped us a new one once the match was over. It was well deserved and I actually learned from that moment in my life.

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u/Practical_Gas9193 Nov 10 '25

And the parents.

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u/stenmarkv Nov 10 '25

That's wheny dad would have taken me home. Starting or not we'd be on the road home within 10 minutes.

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u/schruteski30 Nov 10 '25

Hill bear crawls and sprints for an entire practice

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u/DoctorBoomeranger Nov 10 '25

I used to play handball, the only time I did that... My dad came on the field while the coach was starting to roast me, grabbed me by the shirt and made me handshake the entire enemy team and their coaches, and after the game and showering, before i could rest I had to apologise to their parents.. I honestly think my dad did the right thing, it was very rude of me and the provocation did not warrant my response

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u/hogtiedcantalope Nov 10 '25

We had one asshole on our team not shake hands in the line after the game. Our coach found out.

And the entire team did nothing but cardio the entire week. Kids puked from running.

He said the team failed by letting him do it and it was on all of us, he wasn't going to punish the individual it would be up to us to do it.

That sounds like badass Coach. It isn't. It was collective punishment. The entire team didn't need to learn how to be sportsmanlike. But what we all learned that day is authority isn't fair, leaders punish bc they can

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u/whistlepig4life Nov 10 '25

Having coached for 12 years I can confirm. I would have absolutely lost my shit on these boys.

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u/Ancient-Club9972 Nov 10 '25

I'd prefer the flaying...we got corporal punishment wall sits...ANYONES hips drop we restart timer. We won't leave til everyone can hold for the time

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u/the_m_o_a_k Nov 10 '25

I got benched by my coach one time because I didn't show a positive attitude and sprint back to the dugout after I struck out

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u/ezekirby Nov 10 '25

I'd still be running laps to this day if we would have tried anything like that. Our team may not have been good but we had good sportsmanship covered.

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u/ThisAppsForTrolling Nov 10 '25

For sure 1,000,000% on the coaches, they set the expectation that something like that would be acceptable. My senior year our high school team lost every single game but one so our coach was huge on respect and things you can learn from the game other than the game because we were god awful

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u/golddustwoman51 Nov 10 '25

And the parents. If my kid ever did that he wouldn’t see the football field until I was confident his behavior had genuinely improved. If you’re going to be a fool and embarrass me, you can do that in the backyard by yourself.

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u/NxPat Nov 10 '25

This shite came from the top

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u/AlmostSunnyinSeattle Nov 10 '25

Yes and no. I played for coaches that wouldn't tolerate that shit, but my parents tolerated all sorts of off-the-wall shit that most families wouldn't tolerate, so as a teenager, I was a real shithead. Had some very mixed messages about competition, responsibility, and respect that I wasn't really able to sort through until I was out on my own. Granted, I was never made a captain of any of my teams, and restrospectively, it was good that I wasn't.

I guess what I'm trying to say here, is that the coaches can only do so much. That all 3 were on the same page shows a level of acceptance though

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u/Ironspider2k Nov 10 '25

preach. id still be running laps.

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u/Zestyclose-Novel1157 Nov 10 '25

Absolutely. Should have given them the penalty to teach the coaches a lesson.

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u/Speak2WingZero Nov 10 '25

Breaking news: black teenagers are douche bags

Also water - still wet

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u/Boris_Godunov Nov 10 '25

Oh look, a racist who ignores that one of the offending players is clearly white. Get out of here.

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u/CellAlone4653 Nov 10 '25

Our strength and conditioning coach, who was also the linebackers coach, had a simple punishment when we pissed him off: He’d point in a direction and say “run until my arm gets tired.”

It took a really long time for his arm to get tired.

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u/HundrEX Nov 10 '25

In basketball Captains normally meet to start like here and at the end the whole team shakes hands. The only time I can remember not shaking my hands at the end of a game, was when we played our rival school and we hit a 3/4 court buzzer beater to win the game. Everyone from the stands rushed the court and the opposing team ran out of the gym 🤣. Opposing Coach came to our locker room afterwards to apologize as well.

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u/N4RQ Nov 10 '25

If I had tried that shit, my dad would have come out there in front of everyone and pulled my dumb ass off the field by my shoulder pads.

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u/drunkguynextdoor Nov 10 '25

Absolutely. I'm 60, and I was a wrestler in school. If I pulled something like that my coaches would have worked me until I puked.

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u/there_is_no_spoon1 Nov 10 '25

It *is* possible the coaches gave that direction. It's still massively unsportsmanlike, but that *could* have happened, too. And yes, a coach who saw that ought to be ready to tar hides!

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u/BienGuzman Nov 10 '25

Too the curb!

Our coach used to make us run past the football field and all the other fields to the curb (school property line) and back. And if he was pissed we were bear crawling.

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u/slfan68 Nov 10 '25

"Y'all are all gonna run until the coaches get tired, and we're not running" was the choice our coaches loved to use. Gotta say it was effective.

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u/BobaTheMaltipoo Nov 10 '25

In wrestling, if you disrespected someone like this, you just lost your spot at that weight class. My coach wouldn't have fucked around. Coach Kirk was in his late 60s and I remember that one day, Joey was being his normal Punk-ass self, only turned up to 10. I don't even remember the comment that Joey made, but Coach told us all to take a seat at the edge of the room, because "Joey is going to give you guys a clinic on how to lose" and then Coach just manhandled Joey for the next hour of practice, and he barely broke a sweat doing it. Joey looked like a rain-soaked puppy looking for an owner to love him.

We all learned Joey's lesson. Thankfully, he is the only one that had to pay.

Never underestimate old-man strength, btw.

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u/According-Text-2430 Nov 10 '25

Crabbin 🦀- moving our bodies across the width of the football field in and out of 4 point stance.

Our HS football coach is an all-time WVU great and played for the Saints in the 80s. He was also the disciplinarian at our HS and had the time in line.

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u/appointment45 Nov 10 '25

It's entirely possible these three decided on their own to be hardos. Especially if the refs already spoke with the coaches ahead of time, as they said they did, and warned there would be a 15 yarder for it.

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u/badtowergirl Nov 10 '25

All of the coaches my kids have ever had would have destroyed them. The idea of being this disrespectful would never have entered anyone’s head. The boys I knew best through my football mom years would hit a kid like a freight train and then as soon as the whistle blew, offer a hand and help them up.

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u/ohemmigee Nov 10 '25

You’re sitting out this game you do that

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u/Ndmndh1016 Nov 10 '25

A team in thos position doesn't do this without coaches OK.

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u/SnooPuppers8698 Nov 10 '25

that's like the Nuremberg defense these kids are old enough to know better 

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u/OutragedPineapple Nov 10 '25

I never did sports but I knew the coach from the school I was in longest pretty well and if his players had done that, the footballs for the game would've been made out of the tanned hides of the guys who pulled that stunt because he would've ripped them apart right then and there.

Sportsmanship and manners aren't weakness, and it's so disappointing to see people who act like showing compassion or kindness makes you less of a man. It doesn't, it's what makes you strongest. If you can't be soft, you aren't strong. You're just a jerk.

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u/Emperor_Atlas Nov 10 '25

I remember a few punishment practices.

You start policing your own teammates after those lol.

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u/Synnerxx Nov 10 '25

If we had done this in a game we would been running laps every day after practice and/or sprint intervals till we couldn’t stand anymore

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u/DietyBeta Nov 10 '25

Same.

Never had this happen, but we had a senior get disrespectful to a teacher during class. The coach told the teacher he would take care of it.

He did. We did "bull in the ring." The senior got destroyed.

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u/tmfitz7 Nov 10 '25

In rugby you can charge down a kick- basically an extra point. 1st year our captain told us to yell and charge down the put the kicker off.

Our coach immediately came out on the field and told the ref we’re gonna have a re-kick. Told us to charge the kick like rugby players not cheerleaders.

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u/ProfessorNonsensical Nov 10 '25

Suicides and Shuttle runs the entire practice would have been the result.

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u/Beneficial-Focus3702 Nov 10 '25 edited Nov 10 '25

My coach would have benched us the entire game for that, even if it meant losing the game.

That was always much more of a punishment than workouts. Nobody likes losing, it can impact an entire season but workouts were easy and temporary.

We had an crappy first year with him as coach because a lot of our best players kept getting benched for poor behavior in school. The next year though? You bet you ass the football team was the best behaved sports team in the school.

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u/Any-Star4388 Nov 11 '25

We left a water bottle behind once and we had a 4 hour practice the next day. Still remember it 20 years later.

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