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Highlight Reel: Mona Shores/Caledonia

November 5, 2014

The Muskegon Mona Shores football team defeated Caledonia 42-14 on Saturday in a Division 2 District opener. Click the headings below for MHSAA.tv highlights and the final link to watch the game in full. 

ROBERSON TAKES IT DOWN THE SIDELINE - Muskegon Mona Shores struck first in this Division 2 playoff game. Darece Roberson took a swing pass from Tyree Jackson down the near sideline for 52 yards.

CALEDONIA STRIKES BACK - Caledonia pulled to within a TD in the second quarter when quarterback Tanner Christian scored form eight yards out to make it 14-7 Mona Shores midway through the second period. The Sailors, however, scored four of the next five TDs.

BOMBS AWAY! SCHUITEMAN SCORES! - Muskegon Mona Shores increased its lead to 42-14 in the third quarter when Jackson hits Matt Schuiteman in stride for a 39-yard score. The Sailors went on to post a 49-14 victory over Caledonia in this Division 2 Pre-District game.

Watch the entire game and order DVDs by Clicking Here.

Football Follies

October 7, 2014

Notice reached the MHSAA office of a so-called “2014 Michigan Youth Football Classic” that invites youth league teams to “a great weekend of youth tackle football.” For $450 per team, youth football teams will bang bodies for two days – Nov. 8 and 9 – with each team guaranteed at least three games. Three!

No level of football but this – for the youngest players who have the most vulnerable skulls – allows the idiocy of three games in a weekend. Most limit competition to a maximum of one game in a week!

In my opinion, this isn’t a football classic. It’s child abuse.

I wish the foolishness would stop there, but even an organization called USA Football seems to have lost its head. Initially and mostly with funding from the NFL, USA Football was focused on teaching youth football coaches and players safe blocking and tackling techniques. Good.

But now this pseudo-national governing body for amateur football is planning events for various age groups that will extend tackle football practices and games throughout what used to be an off-season. Multiple competitions in tackle football are scheduled for high school age players in January, February and July of 2015.

At a time when professional, college, school and Pop Warner football are all reducing contact during practices in-season, USA Football wants to expand the contact experience out of season. It makes about as much sense as three games in a weekend.