Curious Question

[frobro]

I was browsing thru the net and saw that the California School for the Deaf has athletics, let alone a football team? I was just wondering is this for real?

[Arch52]

Oregon and Washington school for the deaf have football teams, so it yes it is for real.

[runjumpthrow]

So does Illinois. They have a guy with a big drum on the sidelines. The deaf kids can't hear, but they can feel the vibrations of the drum and that's what they use to snap the ball.

[LayItDown]

we got a Florida one too

[Jhawk Fitness]

Kansas and Missouri both have one, they play 8 man football.

[PolPow53]

what is 8 man football.

[TheDiesel]

what is 8 man football.
Football, that is played with 8 players on a team.......

[PolPow53]

how does that work, is it in pads, what position's get eliminated, how come i have never heard of it?

[Jhawk Fitness]

It's basically arena football played outside, it's really high scoring. As far as having never heard of it, you must live a sheltered life.

[Air Klima 23]

Thats how the huddle started, a deaf football team didnt want the other team to read its sign language.

Go look it up if you dont believe me.

[Arch52]

It's basically arena football played outside, it's really high scoring. As far as having never heard of it, you must live a sheltered life.
dont forget they're ususally lopsided contests, in oregon a lot of the 1a (8-man) football games end in scores of 60-0, 55-12, real lopsided. heck even in the state playoffs for 8-man ball it's still lopsided...

back to deaf football teams, i'd be nervous if i wore there opponents, because you never know when the o-line is gonna fire off the ball... assuming if you were on a non-deaf team.

also our school had a player a few years back that was deaf, we had plays signed into him, he was quite the football player, too. He coulda had d-1aa scholarships, but because he was deaf, all he could do was walk on. He always played till the whistle thats for sure, i remember him nailing on kid on our rivals team like 5 seconds after the play was over. I heard from my brother who is friends with him that he may play semi-pro.

[PolPow53]

It's basically arena football played outside, it's really high scoring. As far as having never heard of it, you must live a sheltered life.
no, it's just that there is no highschool here that has 8 man football, i've never spoken to anyone in my life about it , it's never mentioned on tv, on the internet, and i never recalled it being on these forums.

[BIGPHILL1984]

it is because you are canadian.............................jk

[PolPow53]

except i'm not :D definitely more canadians here than new englanders.

[Adam]

funny how there are so many canadians here