The Wierdest thing you have seen in a game??

[catamount36]

MAYBE THE WIERDEST OR FUNNIEST THING I HAVE SEEN OR HEARD OF WAS WHEN THE RIGHT FIELDER FOR WEST FORSYTH STOLE A GAME WINNING HOMERUN AWAY FROM A PAGE PLAYER, EITH A GLOVE HE HAD BORROWED FROM THAT PAGE PLAYER. SEEMS THE FIELDER LEFT HIS AT THE SCHOOL AND ASK PAGE IF THEY HAD A LEFT HANDED GLOVE HE COULD BORROW. BEING THE NICE GUY HE WAS A PAGE PLAYER SAID SURE. IT CAME BACK TO HAUNT HIM IN THE 7TH INNING

[SouthPawDad]

I've seen two perfect games in person. I was keeping the scorebook for the LOSING team on both occasions!

[BlindMan]

American Legion Game Last Year,

Caldwell County @ East Catawba
playing game 1 of a doubleheader (7 innings) I was umpiring behind the plate when the pitcher for Caldwell County was working on a perfect game with one out in the top of the seventh inning when the p.a. announcer for East Catawba decided to make this announcement: "East Catawba would like to announce that soandso from Caldwell County is working on a perfect game." Next pitch was a clean single to ruin the perfect game and no-hitter. May have been one of the best examples of someone that doesn't know baseball ruining it for the rest of us!

[Braves]

I love this thread.

[neckball]

Playing in a tournament in Augusta this summer. Our centerfielder makes a diving catch on a fly ball, hits the ground, rolls over and then we see the ball on the ground. Base umpire signals for a catch and an out. The opposing coach disagreed and wanted to discuss this. After some time, the plate umpire was asked for his thoughts. He said it's an out because the ground can't cause a fumble.

[Braves]

Playing in a tournament in Augusta this summer. Our centerfielder makes a diving catch on a fly ball, hits the ground, rolls over and then we see the ball on the ground. Base umpire signals for a catch and an out. The opposing coach disagreed and wanted to discuss this. After some time, the plate umpire was asked for his thoughts. He said it's an out because the ground can't cause a fumble.

:rofl:

[Intimidator Coach]

I was coaching some 9-10 year olds wayyyy back. My 3rd baseman's parents were doing the parent coaching and hollaring from the fence and my player asked me if he could go to Right Field to get away from them.

[teanwsnc]

Many years ago I was helping coach a team of 8-9 year olds. I noticed our rightfielder kept turning his back to the infield and tugging at the front of his pants. I called time and went out to see what was going on. He had a bag of candy stuck in the top of his belt and was turning around to eat it so the other players could not get any. I had to take the candy away and the kid starting crying. All the parents thought I had done something to hurt him until I showed everyone the bag of candy. This is the same team that we had to call a time out any time an airplane flew over because we knew our fielders would be looking at the plane instead of the game!!!

[The "O"]

involved in a game in which we lead 9-1 going into the ninth the Naval Academy is down to it s last strike with two down and GUESS WHAT?? Lonely and very very weird feeling standing out at 2nd base and NOT being able to do anything about it! YEP!!! You guessed we lose 10 -9 walking off with our tails in between our legs....Long trip home to upstate Maryland! Never ever forget it! :xyzthumbs

[The "O"]

how bout traveling 2 45 min to a playoff game on a Tuesday HS! Lights go out in the 5th innining never come back on have to drive back AND THEN come back the NEXT night (now and after) ten total hours of drive time only to finally have gotten beaten!!!!!!!!

[Braves]

I bet those 2:45 minute bus drive felt like 10 coming back

[Braves]

For you old guys...Dale Murphy came up as a catcher in the minors. He had a cannon for an arm. There was just one itsy, bitsy problem.....nearly every throw would end up in centerfield. After one particular brutal game for Murphy, the coach was climbing all over him. Now, Murphy was the nicest guy you could ever meet. He would take things to heart when a coach criticized him...often times it would produce him to become sullen and very quiet. Well, one inning Dale launched one. It was the hardest, fastest throw I had ever seen by a catcher....unfortunately, it was a little off base. The 2nd baseman was cheating towards the 1st b hole due to a LH batter. He took one step towards 2nd when the ball nearly hit him in the gut. Players put their gloves up by their faces to mask their laughing. The coach was screaming...Murphy was shaking his head and kicking the dirt, but hid behind his mask (that he never mastered to remove). The coach called time and summoned everyone to the mound. He preceeded to jump all over Dale while everyone else continued not to pee in their pants. The coach said " Da#%$#it, Murphy. Can't you throw the dadgum little white ball to 2nd". We were expecting Dale to hang his head and shuffle his feet like he would normally do when being yelled at. But he looked the manager in the eye and told him very quietly, "I did".

Oh shoot...that was it. The players lost it. The umpire came out and heard what happened and he lost it. The other umpires joined in to find out what was going on and they lost it. The manager didn't understand what was so funny and he stormed back to the dugout. It may have been 2 minutes, but it felt like it was an hour...everyone patting Murphy on the back and telling him how great he was.

Two games later, Murphy was playing CF.

[allrightnow]

American Legion Game Last Year,

Caldwell County @ East Catawba
playing game 1 of a doubleheader (7 innings) I was umpiring behind the plate when the pitcher for Caldwell County was working on a perfect game with one out in the top of the seventh inning when the p.a. announcer for East Catawba decided to make this announcement: "East Catawba would like to announce that soandso from Caldwell County is working on a perfect game." Next pitch was a clean single to ruin the perfect game and no-hitter. May have been one of the best examples of someone that doesn't know baseball ruining it for the rest of us!

Or maybe someone who does know baseball superstition and still ruined it for you.

[Hurricane]

:thinking:

[Braves]

:thinking:

It was the opposing team's announcer....in baseball, you never speak of a no hitter while it's happening....superstition. Do they have something like this in Hockey?

[Hurricane]

It was the opposing team's announcer....in baseball, you never speak of a no hitter while it's happening....superstition. Do they have something like this in Hockey?

Dude I didn't even read the thread..I was sweeping the board. :banana:

But YES, hockey has more superstitions than any other sport.

[Braves]

fun thread

[ncsu82]

2000 Little League state championship in Greenville, NC. ( Now you know what baseball means to people in Greenville!). Home town Greenville leads North Durham 6-2 with two outs and nobody on in the bottom of the last inning at picturesque Elm Street City Park. Durham rallies with 9 consective hits to win 7-6.

Headlines in the Greenville paper the next day read: "NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET"

[ncsu82]

2001 Little League state championship game in Hickory. Same Durham team leads Matthews 2-1 in bottom of last innings with two outs and two strikes on the batter who is pinch hitting for the number nine hitter and absolutely no chance of hitting our stud. So what's the coach do? Calls for a bunt.....it works. Matthews rallies for a 3-2 win and the championship.

I'll NEVER forget that one. Where are you coach? I know you're out there somewhere. Do you remember?

[WS-FOOTBALL]

West Forsyth and East Forsyth 2006 JV.

Game tied at 10 in the bottom of the 10th. Bases loaded for West, 2 outs, 1 strike. Coach looks around and sees all the infielder way deep (force at any base) and called a squeeze. Perfect, West won 11-10!

[east]

I saw a kid for Kerr Vance Academy get hit by a pitch three times in one at bat. The 1st time he was plunked the ump ruled he made no effort to get out of the way. The very next pitch he was again hit in the side but unbelieveable he swung at the pitch thus nullifying a trip to first. Lo and behold two pitches later he was again nailed in the shoulder finally EARNING his free trip to first.

[Braves]

Lo and behold two pitches later he was again nailed in the shoulder finally EARNING his free trip to first.

:laugh4: He sure did

[Coach 27]

I take four 10 year old kids to Greenville with me and we end up staying in the Motel 9 days. I thought I was going to have to be admitted to the Funny Farm! I kid you not. Every day it rained and then they would get the field ready some how and we would play and then it would start raining again. I also remember that crazy comeback who could forget it. But I also remember getting ready to start a game in that tourney and our RF Travis Horn now the catcher at Northern Durham HS starts stumbling around in LF. Finally he just falls down flat on his back before the first pitch could be thrown. The coaches rush out to him not having any clue what could be wrong with him. Well a huge bumble bee had stung him on the forehead and he has a knot on his forehead the size of an egg. He had to be carried to the dugout! Sorry Henry and Travis but it was hilarious!

[Coach 27]

A couple of years ago we travel to ( ) HS to play a conference game. This team has probaly one three games in the last 10 years. After getting up on them around 15 to 0 I look in center field and the guy is sitting on his behind eating sunflower seeds. The left fielder yells "Hey give me some of those". The center fielder yells back "Come and get em". The left fielder runs to cf and is getting sunflower seeds from the guy while he is sitting on his behind during our guys ab. I kid you not. There is another poster here that was at the game.

We are playing the same team when Matt Harrison was pitching for us his sr year. The pro scouts call and want to know when Matt is scheduled to pitch again. I tell them Tuesday against this team but dont waste your time these guys are not very good in fact they are probaly the worse team in the nation. Well they say they could careless about the competition they are coming to see Matt. Well Tuesday rolls around and its 5 minutes to game time and this team has not showed. There are around 25 scouts in attendance and they have brought crosscheckers , regional scouting directors and they are really worried they are not going to see Matt pitch. I walk over to them and say "Dont worry they always show up right at game time". Well about that time they roll up in the bus. The coach gets off the bus and walks right to the homeplate meeting as his players are walking into the dugout. The homeplate umpire offers to allow them a few minutes to throw and stretch before the game. The coach says "Oh were fine we cant throw anyway and they never stretch before a game". During on ab a kid sees two straight 90 plus fb's he starts to walk back to his dugout. The umpire says son you only have two strikes. The kid laughs and says "Make it three I aint standing up there no more". After a five inning 30-0 game the scouts are amazed. All I could say was "I told you so".

[NC Baseball Fan]

awesome thread, what a hoot. :clap:

[Braves]

A couple of years ago we travel to ( ) HS to play a conference game. This team has probaly one three games in the last 10 years. After getting up on them around 15 to 0 I look in center field and the guy is sitting on his behind eating sunflower seeds. The left fielder yells "Hey give me some of those". The center fielder yells back "Come and get em". The left fielder runs to cf and is getting sunflower seeds from the guy while he is sitting on his behind during our guys ab. I kid you not. There is another poster here that was at the game.

We are playing the same team when Matt Harrison was pitching for us his sr year. The pro scouts call and want to know when Matt is scheduled to pitch again. I tell them Tuesday against this team but dont waste your time these guys are not very good in fact they are probaly the worse team in the nation. Well they say they could careless about the competition they are coming to see Matt. Well Tuesday rolls around and its 5 minutes to game time and this team has not showed. There are around 25 scouts in attendance and they have brought crosscheckers , regional scouting directors and they are really worried they are not going to see Matt pitch. I walk over to them and say "Dont worry they always show up right at game time". Well about that time they roll up in the bus. The coach gets off the bus and walks right to the homeplate meeting as his players are walking into the dugout. The homeplate umpire offers to allow them a few minutes to throw and stretch before the game. The coach says "Oh were fine we cant throw anyway and they never stretch before a game". During on ab a kid sees two straight 90 plus fb's he starts to walk back to his dugout. The umpire says son you only have two strikes. The kid laughs and says "Make it three I aint standing up there no more". After a five inning 30-0 game the scouts are amazed. All I could say was "I told you so".

Lord...I had tears in my eyes laughing so much

[SoutherNo1]

I was at the "sunflower seed" game Coach 27 mentioned. There is no way to convey how funny that crowd is when it comes to baseball. The field has no fence, so if you one-hop the woods , you get a double. If you hit the woods in the air, homerun. The SS, and the 3B wrestled nearly the whole game when in the field. The dugouts are only about 10 ft. wide, so most of the players just sat outside on buckets & cinder blocks. No foul poles, and no lines painted. This particular game, the sitting sessions were long. Coach 27 forgot to mention that the 15-0 score was achieved after about the first 17 batters. Luckily the game was called after 3 innings at about 38-0.

[PhillyDave]

2002 Little League Regional Championship Game. MARA vs Mint Hill. Game 2 of 3 game series. MARA had won game #1.

Here's the deal: Bottom of sixth inning (remember that little league games are only 6 innings) Mint Hill is up by three runs. Bases loaded with two outs,
the batter hit's a two hopper to the pitcher, the pitcher turns to first base and throws it away, ..... meanwhile everyone is still running... the right fielder, who was backing up the play, picks the ball up and throws it... to NO ONE, into the left field corner ... all four runs score..... game over!

[Seminolebaseball7]

In 2003, Watauga's Little League All Star team had a pitcher that started three different games in the district tournament, and in all three of his starts he opened up by walking a batter, letting up a hit, and letting up a 3 run home run. However, Watauga won all three of those games. By the third game after the home run was hit the Watauga players were pumped because they knew they were going to win.

That's the only time I've ever seen a coach happy when a pitcher lets off a 3 run bomb in the first inning.

[east]

I was at the "sunflower seed" game Coach 27 mentioned. There is no way to convey how funny that crowd is when it comes to baseball. The field has no fence, so if you one-hop the woods , you get a double. If you hit the woods in the air, homerun. The SS, and the 3B wrestled nearly the whole game when in the field. The dugouts are only about 10 ft. wide, so most of the players just sat outside on buckets & cinder blocks. No foul poles, and no lines painted. This particular game, the sitting sessions were long. Coach 27 forgot to mention that the 15-0 score was achieved after about the first 17 batters. Luckily the game was called after 3 innings at about 38-0.


SouthernNo1

This school would not happen to be located near your former home would it ? Have to drive down a dirt road to get to the baseball field ?

[SoutherNo1]

One in the same East.

[LegionPost46]

we're playing a team in our conference, who traditionally is not very good. well they hit the field for pregame and their coach starts hitting them balls. almost everyone in our dugout immediately look around at each other with the same "is he really hitting crosshanded?" look on our face. their coach is serisously hitting crosshanded.

THEN....later in the year we go to their place. different coach is getting ready to hit infield. we all kind of chuckle about how they must have made the crosshander stay in the dugout. the new coach starts hitting if/of and sure enough...crosshanded.



another fun one from the same place. we get to their park and ask if we can take bp on the field before the game. they say sure, we're not going to hit but you can. so i'm like, wheres the L screen. they guy looks at me like i'm speaking sandscrit. to make a long story short i had to throw pregame bp behind one of those softball screens with the big hole in them. classic

[tj21]

Reading the post from LegionPost46 about pregame infield reminded me of my oldest son's middle school team. When he was just a 7th grader, they actually had a pretty good team, but the coach was a math teacher who I later figured out he hadn't been to too many baseball games in his time. I had never seen much of what was going on in practice, so I was sort of surprised (and embarrassed for the boys) to see the coach struggle just to hit infield at the first couple ballgames. The coach would literally toss the ball, and then swing and miss several times, and when he did hit it, Lord knows where it was going. Well I don't know who or when something was said, but I noticed after just a handful of games, that the starting pitcher would hit the pregame infield. No kidding, as I said they had a good team, so every game the rest of the year you would see the starting pitcher out there hitting infield/outfield before each game, then the pitcher would run over to the sideline and throw a few pitches to his catcher to warmup, and they would be ready to go. That team had talent, they only lost one game all year, in spite of the coach.

[coachsnead]

I have two quick stories:

1. I believe I know what school that Southern and Coach27 are talking about. Here is another good one from them: In between innings in a game at our field we were playing music. All of a sudden a song came on that their players obviously liked. That is when every player in the field dropped their gloves and started dancing (including the pitcher and catcher). The umpire signaled the press box to cut off the music so we could get the inning underway.

2. When I was JV coach here at RR years back we were playing our last non-conference game of the season (about game 8 of the year). We were trailing 13-0 after 3 innings of play so I emptied my bench. In the 4th inning a kid who was getting his first AB of the year(he hadn't even hit the ball out of the infield in BP) comes to the plate with the bases loaded and we are still trailing 13-0. The first pitch he sees all year he parks over the leftcenter field fence for a grand slam. That obviously sparked something. We won the game 25-15 in 5 innings.

[neckball]

Here's one i had forgotten about. Paw Creek is playing at Shelby in the American Legion playoffs around 1996-1997.

Bottom of the 9th, tie game, two outs, full count on the Shelby batter. Coach for Paw Creek calls time, goes to the mound and calls for a pitcher from the bullpen. Reliever comes in, throws one pitch ( ball 4 ).

Game over, season over for Paw Creek.

[aguyyouknow]

I guess my contribution would have to be a 15 Inning game I played in one night in the Midwest League in Wisconsin Rapids in 1982. It was cold at game time. Probably about 35 or 40 degrees. By the 15th Inning (with the score 0-0) it was in the TEENS!

There was even a "freezing rain" delay around the 7th or 8th Inning. At 2:15AM there wasn't a sole left in the ballpark except for our radio announcer (broadcasting back to Appleton) and the bus driver. It felt like something out of the old TV show The Twilight Zone!

In the top of the 15th one of our guys walked and was sacrificed into scoring position. I proceeded to hit a 6 hopper over the bag at 3B that their Third Baseman was too frozen to get to and we finally took a 1-0 lead. Everyone gave me a standing ovation! Including the Wiskey Rapids Twins players!

They went down easily in the bottom of the 15th but I can only imagine what would have happened if they had tied the game 1-1?

To make this story even more bizzare, the next night they beat us 19-0 and hit two Grand Slam Home Runs in the bottom of the 1st Inning! Go Figure.................

[rcbbfan]

My contribution is about an Area 3 legion game between South Rowan and Mocksville/Davie.

It had rained nearly all day and I was sure that the game would be cancelled, but after not hearing one way or the other my wife and I decided to head out to Rich Park anyway. When we got there, moments before scheduled game time, we were told that the game WOULD be played but it would be delayed until the field was made playable. When I saw the field I said "No way". It was a lake, but everybody there chipped in and by about 9:00 the field was declared playable. Instead of a lake it was now a swampy quagmire. The game proceeded pretty much like most legion games, surprisingly with very few, if any, errors from either team until the bottom of the 8th. By now a very heavy fog had settled over the field to the point I could barely see the outfielders on the field. Up till then it had been pretty much all South Rowan with them leading 16-8. In the bottom of the 8th Mocksville/Davie scored 16 runs thanks to some poor pitching and timely hitting including 2 grand slam HRs by M/D. Everybody in the stands figured the game was over and most left given that it was after midnight by then, only a few of the steadfast parents remained. In the top of the 9th, unbelievably, South Rowan scored 16 runs to retake the lead at 32-24. When they finally retired to the field for the bottom of the 9th they brought in their #1 pitcher to close the game and he managed to get 3 outs with the bases loaded to end the game. It was 2:00 AM before I left the field that night. It was one of the most amazing games I had ever seen. Folks around Rowan County (and I'm sure Davie County) still talk about today.

[Red Bear]

Many years ago - probably in the mid 70's - I was watching my older brother playing for Hickory Post 48. Hickory had a strong team and I believe they were playing Forest City. Hickory started rallying and the Forest City coach came out to make a pitching change.

He brought in a left hander off the bench to face our lefty hitter. After an out, a right handed hitter was next. So, the pitcher takes his glove off his right hand and moves it to his left. Now, he's a righty! He proceeds to switch back and forth the rest of the game.

I honestly can't remember how effective he was, but it was something I've never forgotten - or ever seen since!

[Up and In]

One of the earlier posts reminded me of this. Three summers ago (wow time flies) I was playing my first summer for the Chatham A's of the Cape Cod Baseball League and Andrew Miller was my teammate there as well. One night, he faced a right handed hitter (he is left handed) and hit him with three straight pitches and struck him out. First pitch slider, right in the chest as he tried to bunt. Second pitch on his back knee swinging. And the third pitch back in the chest swinging again. We were laughing about it last year and he told me that that was his single greatest accomplishment in college... he put that on top of his Roger Clemens Award.

[LClefty04]

Playing a middle school game against Hamlet at their place. The batter for our team hits a ball straight up into the air and it drifts back behind the fence. A parent for the other team was walking behind the fence when the ball was hit. He looks up at the ball and seems to see it and so he put his head down. Right as he put his head down, the ball hits him right on top of the head. Wasn't funny at the time but he was taken to the hospital and is doing fine of course. But looking back it was one of the funniest things i've ever seen.


Randy Johnson hitting that bird with a 96 MPH fastball in the spring training game has to rate up there too.

[baseballislife10]

In 2003, Watauga's Little League All Star team had a pitcher that started three different games in the district tournament, and in all three of his starts he opened up by walking a batter, letting up a hit, and letting up a 3 run home run. However, Watauga won all three of those games. By the third game after the home run was hit the Watauga players were pumped because they knew they were going to win.

That's the only time I've ever seen a coach happy when a pitcher lets off a 3 run bomb in the first inning.

I was at these games... remember them all perfectly... first game was against morganton (the year before they went to the llws)... lead off batter walks on four straight, 2 batter singles to right, and 3 batter reggie washington now playing for Freedom varsity drops a bomb to left center. Watauga goes on to win 11-10 in the 12th inning. Next game was vs Happy Valley first batter walks on four straight, second batter singles up the middle... third batter who now plays for Hibriten varsity drops a bomb to left center. Watauga goes on to win 7-6 in the 7th. The final game was in the district tournament championship against ashe county, it was his turn in the rotation again after a games rest so sure enough lead off batter walks on four straight, next batter singles to left, and third batter drops a bomb over the right field fence. I remember hearing the coach say great job to his son as he came off the mound, then look at the rest of his team and say "I have a good feeling now fellas, we just won the game." Watauga goes on to beat Ashe County 7-4 having a grandslam in the top of the 6th with 2 outs to continue onto the state tournament.

[BaseballMan]

Years ago down in South Carolina, two very small schools (Green Sea Floyd was one of them) played. It was a complete mismatch with GSF scoring about 15 runs before an out was made. At the end of the first inning and the score about 20-0, GSF coach called the opposing coach over and offered to just end the game right there. The losing coach replies "IT AIN'T OVER TILL ITS OVER". GSF coach walks back to his dugout and says, "OK boys get all you can". Final score, 56-1.

[BaseballMan]

My son's AAU team had a center fielder (now playing at Florence/Darlington) who could flatout run (about 6 nothing in the sixty). He hits a towering shot to deep center but our runner on first has to hold up to see if it was caught. Ball was not caught and a relay got away. Well our batter ended up one step behind the runner all the way around the basepaths with both runners sliding into home virtually on top of one another.

[LClefty04]

Here is one that happened tonight. Guy on third and coach gives the squeeze play and it worked. The pitcher fields the ball and throws it away at first, so runner advances to third. Very next batter, another squeeeze play and it also worked. Never seen back-to-back squeeze plays before and both of them actually working.

[Coach 27]

Back in I think 99 we went to East Wake on a Saturday to play a non conf game. We brought up a JV player to play lf because we liked the way he had been swinging the bat and he was a LH stick and we only had one in the line up. The first time he gets up we have runners at 1st and 2nd with no outs so we put on the sac bunt. He whiffs twice so we take it off hoping he just moves the runners. Next pitch he hits a 3 run bomb. In his very next ab we have a runner at first and no outs and we are tied so we put on the sac again. Well you guessed it he whiffs on the first pitch so we take it off. Yep next pitch 2 run bomb. So the kid hits two hr's in his first 2 varsity ab's. He didnt bunt much the rest of the year. The kids name was Eddie Abbott , great young man. Couldnt bunt a lick!!!!!

[ncsu82]

This wasn't a game but a true story nonetheless.

Happened back in the early 80's while playing for a major D1 school in the triangle...I won't mention any names or school! We were traveling on a Friday afternoon to Charlottesville, Va. to play UVa. on Saturday and then Maryland on Sunday (schedules were a little different back in the day). Now if you've ever been to Charlottesville, you know it's out in the middle of nowhere, especially 26 years ago.
Well, we stop to get a bite to eat Friday afternoon. Two kids try to be slick and run across the street and get a six-pack for consumption in the hotel room that night. The coach happens to see them but doesn't say anything at the time. But two hours down the road later, in the middle of nowhere,nothern Virginia at just about dark...he pulls over on the side of the road and confronts the kids about their purchase. Upon seeing the six-pack, he tells them both to get out and that he doesn't ever want to see their f%#$@ing a$$ again! Coach gets back on the bus, pulls away, and leaves them on the side of the road, suitcases in hand. They had to thumb their way back to Raleigh, oops, I mean the triangle. I'll never forget that sight.

Needless to say, nobody else ever tried that trick again. Actually, one of the kids was reinstated the next year and was eventually drafted by the Braves. True story.

[ncsu82]

A friend of mine was umpiring a game last year that ended rather quickly. After asking what happened he told me he was behind the plate in the bottom of the first inning. Home team was ahead 21-0, had the bases loaded and the visitors hadn't gotten anybody out yet!

At this point the visiting coach calls time and proceeds to ask him for an explanation of the slaughter rule. He explains to the coach that it's 15 after 3 or 10 after 4...but you can quit at any time. Upon hearing the good news, the visiting coach calls his team off the field, loads up the bus and goes home! Game over.

He said it was the easiest $55 bucks he's ever made!