Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Intramural Flag Football
My team (Death Row) had its first intramural flag football game this past Sunday. Before the game was started our team found out that the league does everything it can to keep your thirty dollar entry fee. Our team was already ineligible to get our money back because we were three minutes late for the coaches meeting. The team we were playing against found out the hard way about the unknown rules enforced by the officials. The rule that everyone has to bring their student I.D. to the game to be able to play is reasonable but a little extreme. I can see where the school is coming from with that one, which makes sure that all players are students at Ohio. But realistically, is anyone going to bring in ringers to play in their intramural flag football games? The most ridiculos rule that was enforced was the no pockets rule. You are not allowed to wear shorts that have pockets and if you do you cannot play. The explanation for this rule is that it is an injury risk. Injury risk? Come on! How does playing flag football with shorts that have pockets risk injury? The combination of these two rules that both teams were ignorant of resulted in the forfeit of the other team. (We live closer to the fields and were back before 4:30)The 4:30 forfeit time was ridiculos because the games before us weren't even finished by 4:30 but the other team showed up at 4:35 so they had to forfeit. As a result they can no longer recieve their thirty dollars back because they forfeited. It is now clear how the intramural offices make all their money, by enforcing seemingly pointless unknown rules to prey on freshmen who haven't played before and don't know the rules. We ended up scrimaging but where disappointed we didn't get to play a game with actual meaning to it but at least we got the win.
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Money can be everything. The intramural officials are very unreasonable. They need to understand that this is a game and they need to be flexible. The same thing happened with the soccer team I’m on. The officials somewhat take the fun out of it. Kids want to play it for fun, not to get drilled with rules and take the money. I feel that it was poorly designed and have gone overboard. I agree with the pockets situation. Players should be allowed to wear pockets to a game. I understand the refs don’t want us to carry anything in them to use but it’s very obvious if something is in your pocket or not. I just wanted to be on a team for fun. My friends all played football with me so we decided to pick soccer for fun because none of us played. The refs take this “fun” that we want to have and make the game as if there are no exceptions. The fact that we can’t get our money back if we are late is atrocious. This is an issue that needs to be brought up. They turned a fun intramural game into a serious, inflexible game that just collects money.
I also agree with you that flag football is taken to the extreme. Even though I am not on a team I see where you guys are coming from in that their policies are unfair. First of all if you can't get your money back for something as simple as that it is ridculous. My friends tell me that the game is somewhat fun, but all of the rules make the game not worth playing. The whole idea of intramurals is to give kids the opportunity to have fun without worrying about the time and dedication that it takes to participate in the varsity athletics. This is not the big leagues and they should let people play. Another issue that I see has come up is the pocket rule. I also understand if you have something in them it is dangerous, but that may be taking it a little too far. In my opinion, if you let the kids play then there wouldn't be an issue. The rules and the outrageous little penalties are what kill the game and they should address what they have been doing. The offices should stop worrying about the 30$ fee and make the game into what it is intended to be. Fun!
Wow, I am very shocked to hear this. I guess all the recreational department wants is a little more money. Those rules seam extremely unreasonable. Unfortunately today money is the top thing everyone wants in today’s world. It is really all about who can make the most money and that will "lead to a better life." Unfortunately that is one of the downfalls of our generation and the only way to fix it is lead by example. Now about the rules. No pockets? What do they think it is, professional football? I think you should get all of the football teams to sign a position requesting a change of rules because all of this seams extremely ridiculous.
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