What are the unwritten rules of sports?
DocBenjamin
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Don't bunt in a late inning no hitter.
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Don't steal a base late in the game if your team has a large lead.
Base coaches playing it station to station with base runners when having a very large lead in the late innings.
No long bombs from your starting offense when you’ve got a huge late 4th quarter lead.
Don’t make the first or third out at 3rd base.
Don’t excessively celebrate a hockey goal when you’re up or down big.
Jim
Don't trade wives with your teammates.
Enjoy the go.
A lot of the old school ones for baseball players dont care about anymore since they know it could impact them in arbitration.
The big one is just dont throw at someones head. Hit them in the butt or the elbow guard if they have one
Wisconsin 2-6 against the SEC since 2007
Don't throw punches in a donnybrook you will hurt your hands. This is especially true in a contract year when stats count the most. Don't want to be sitting on the sidelines with an injury whereby you can't pad the numbers.
Rule 71a golf:
If you are a top ranked golfer...hire a driver.
If you’re Bronny James agent, no need to warn other teams not to draft him because seriously bro, he sucks and no team was going to draft him besides daddy’s team.
In retrospect, my unwritten rule was fairly specific.
In badminton it’s not proper etiquette to laugh when you learn what the name of the thing you’re batting around is.
In baseball never talk to a pitcher in the dugout if he has a no hitter going.
Ask Bob Gibson how long a batter was allowed to stare at a home run and if they should be flipping bats after a bomb.
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
Chin music on their next at bat against Gibson. 😆
Dribble out the clock when you have a large enough lead.
Don't spill the Gatorade...
Or challenge an invalid to a long drive contest.
I never believed in unwritten rules.
In 35 years of coaching, I was only pissed enough to not shake hands** one** time. I had a kid that needed innings. We were losing 7-1 and had done some of the obvious stuff to wave the white flag (subs, submitted the next days lineup, told the opposing dugout we were throwing a recent HS graduate, etc. and replaced our catcher after he batted in the 7th), they executed a double-steal with one-out in the home half of the 8th. I was livid. While 7-1 doesn't sound THAT bad...it wasn't that close of a game. In collegiate leagues, every team has ridiculous arms at the end of games and we had, maybe 1300 pounds on the field--mostly freshman. We knew each other from league play. That one stuck with me.
I told my guys to not bother showering, get to your cars and come back strong tomorrow. I DID approach "Don" and he said "I didn't call it--these kids just don't understand the game". I told him he lost control of his club and he needed to do a better job. I told him "this isn't the movies. I can't guarantee will kick your a$s tomorrow, but you definitely woke us up." and walked away.
We lost 5-4 the next day, anyway. Dammit.
"You've gotta be a man to play this game...but you'd better have a lot of little boy in you, too"--Roy Campanella
is not cheering / making noise during a swing (golf) or during play (tennis) actually in the rules?
When I was coaching high school football, we had a road game against a nearby town. We quickly noticed that the squad we were playing had a number of suspiciously large players. Midway through the game, I was given a report that their varsity team was practicing on a nearby field and had something like 7 guys there - the rest were all playing us. In the handshake line, one of the freshmen for the opposing team was easily 225 pounds with a full beard that I would be proud of NOW at my not-young age. They beat us pretty badly that day, I forget the score.
The next year, we had them on our field. They brought a true freshman squad this time and we had a much improved roster (along with a much improved head coach who was no longer clueless, LOL). We rolled them and were up something like 44-12 late. I had told my players we wouldn't hold back, I wanted to score 50, all that stuff. Well, when it came time to run up the score, just couldn't do it. So I told signaled to my QB to take a knee and run out the clock.
He spiked the ball to kill the clock instead.
I called a timeout and went out to talk to him and had a good laugh over the misunderstanding. He took a knee on the next snap and that was that.
The only negative out of the game was one of my guys getting kicked out for throwing his helmet for reasons I never did quite discern. He got a penalty for holding or something and next thing I know he's throwing his helmet. I ran on the field to find out what the heck was going on and got met halfway by one of the refs - the father of one of my students. He was ready for battle and I told him I just wanted to know what the heck happened before the helmet toss. We had a good laugh over that.
Man, I do miss coaching football.
Did you cover the spread?😀
Absolutely.