Whaaa, we lost the game. It isn't fair. They should have let us score, whaaa. Has this nation turned into a nation of whiners & complainers? Is the term "Bully" going to supplant "Racist"? I mean really, what do you do stop the game in the 2nd quarter? Put in the Pop Warner team or cheerleaders? Come on now Coach Buchanan is going to have to look over his shoulder because of all the whiners and do gooders. Is this what the United STates of America is turning in to? Look at the bright side, they refrained from scoring 100 points, that's a victory in itself!

So now being good at something is "bullying" some one who isn't?

doesn't their sports associations have a rule for runaways? Usually if you are winning by a certain margin, the play is stopped as the team has won...

I just don't understand: What kind of parent has TIME to do something like this? The time to think about a lost football game for more than a few seconds. The time to log onto the district's system. The time to write out a silly complaint.

When I first heard this story the other day all I could think of was "Thank God, those aren't MY parents." I would be absolutely mortified if my parents did that!

I truly feel sorry, not just for the coaches, but for the kid whose parent pulled this jerk move. That kid is going to have helicopter parents for the rest of his life.

Well, one parent complained and there appears to be universal disdain for his/her position. So perhaps we haven't bottomed out just yet.

John Heisman on line one. Something about "91-0? that's chump change!" No, seriously, check the link.

Also, in football games that are out of hand, both teams generally put in their second or third string players, to give them actual game experience.

Who here or anywhere is going to tell the third stringers, who have gone to all the practices, done all the work, and mostly ride the bench and the bus that no, you can't score a touchdown, you might hurt the other side's feelings when they have an opportunity to do score or make a play? An opportunity to show the coaching staff that yes, I can do this on the field.

I'll be the opposition here. It's not bullying, but the way I was brought up this is unsportsmanlike. As SwissArmyD mentioned, play would be halted if you "skunked" the opposing team, or clearly outmatched them in points. No shame or humiliation in being "skunked".

A few years ago the Steelers won the Superbowl against the Cardinals. It was a very close game with the Steelers winning in the last few minutes of the game (iirc). Some lady told me it was incredibly rude for the Steelers to do that. Because they had been to the Superbowl many times and won many times, but this was the first time the Cardinals had been to the championship.

The end result of leftist political rhetoric.

It is well over due to deep six political correctness.

Also, in football games that are out of hand, both teams generally put in their second or third string players, to give them actual game experience.

Yep, the coach not only put in his reserve, he also asked to keep the clock running continuously in the second half. The league doesn't have a mercy rule, so he did all he could short of telling his second and third stringers not to play their best, which is unacceptable.

As I understand it the coach put in the second string in once they were up 2x to 0, and then his third string in when it got even worse.

I hope that the whining parent was anonymous. Otherwise his kid is never going to live it down.

@I R A Darth Aggie, Astra & Jim P.

Well said.

"As I understand it the coach put in the second string in once they were up 2x to 0, and then his third string in when it got even worse." - Jim P.

At what point does the coach send in the marching band and the cheerleaders?

The coach of the winning team might be a jerk - I'm sure the losing parents would garner some sympathy if they made that case. However, accusing the man of a crime solely because of the lopsided outcome of a sporting event is absolutely insane. Nonsense like that contributes to the trivialization of actual bullying.

So now being good at something is "bullying" some one who isn't? - Jay

"The year was 2081 and everybody was finally equal."

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html

In grad school, I was a grader for a class. I never went to the class or met any of the students. I just graded the assignments.

On the first assignment, there was one really critical but often overlooked step that I assigned a high point value because it's REALLY important.

Every single student skipped that part and thus, lost a lot of points. Over the 20-odd assignments, there was only one other error made (costing 1 point), and about half the class made that. So, I handed out either a 75 or 76 (or something like that) out of 100 to every single student.

The day they went back to the students I got a couple upset emails saying it shouldn't have been so much, etc. But what floored me was when the instructor called me and said a student emailed him saying she was going to file a discrimination complaint because "CLEARLY" I was out to get her.

Aside from the fact that, since the students' scores only varied by one point, it would have been the most evenly applied discrimination in history, there was the fact that I had no clue who any of the students were. The name was somewhat exotic, but given that over half the class were foreign nationals, that sort of made it part of the majority! To this day, I can only conclude that the person was cheesed at not getting a high score and was willing to do anything necessary to change it.

That was when I realized what deep shit the world is really in.

When I was in high school if you got to where you had 50 points more than the other team they ended it and called it a "mercy game." This happened twice to the football team. We felt more embarassed and humiliated that they ended the game early out of "mercy" than we ever would have by losing by a huge margin.

From what I saw, it was about halftime that the reserves started to go in--at which point it was already 63-0. If that is the case, then he waited too long. But if it was actually happening at more like 28-0, then he did it right.

How do you tell if the 3rd-string is on the field if they still score at will?

Does this make Kato Mitchell a bully?

http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2013/09/why_was_this_game_played_ohio.html

I live in Texas actually fairly close to where this game went down. My father was a football coach so was his dad. My brother played for one of the best high school programs in the country and has two state championship rings. The UIL (the governing body of sports and activities in Texas public schools) does not have a mercy rule. The coaches cannot simply withdraw players at a certain point without forfeiting the game. He put in his second then third string players. My brother had a couple of these games himself we are talking scores of 75-0 or 65-0 never got as high as 91 though. We never heard complaints from parents about bullying however... Its this simple its called the "losers limp" there is always someone screaming not fair, they were mean, Im so special I deserve special snowflake status. From a Texas football family that parents should have their name published and should be publicly humiliated! I hope to GOD that their progeny is sterile ugh!

How do you tell if the 3rd-string is on the field if they still score at will?

Just cause scholl A's 3rd string is better than school B's 1st string doesnt mean you cant tell the difference between the 1st and third string athletes stats on the practice feild.

Hell I hate football and even I know that

Bobby Bowden used to tell the story of when he was head coach at West Virginia and complained to the other coach that he had run up the score. Bowden said the other coach looked at him and said, "it's not my job to keep the score down. That's your job."

Hard lessons don't come cheap.

In Texas high school football all divisions, with one exception, play out the game, no matter how lopsided the score. The exception is the 6-man league; in 6-man if the winner pulls ahead by more than 45 points the game ends. I've seen it happen.

6-man has different rules, and the games are more wide-open, high-scoring affairs; scores with both teams in the high double digits are not at all infrequent. Games called on account of the "slaughter rule" aren't either.