Coach Nickerson: "That pass interference penalty was no fluke..."

We figured sooner or later we would get there. The only surprising thing is that it took four games for it to happen.

We finally found a flag football coach to despise.

Common Sense Memo: When a 7 year old kid makes a great (great!) sliding catch in the corner of the end zone and you're not sure if he's in bounds or not -- HE'S INBOUNDS BECAUSE HE'S 7!!!!!!!!! Hello?!? Anyone home?!?

Common Sense Memo, Part II: When you have a good kid on your team, you can't throw the ball to him on every play (and we mean every play!). We have four Big Guns. And if we threw the ball to one of them on every play, we would be dropping half-a-hundred on teams, no sweat. Instead, we throw the ball to a different kid on every play.

So there we were last night, locked in a tight battle at 14-all. (And yes, the two scores on the other team came from that One Kid.) The other team had been "quick-snapping" all game (another no-no in the 7 year old league) and there had been some trash talking on their side, too.

There were five minutes left and our kid made the aforementioned Awesome Catch for the go ahead touchdown...only to have Coach A-hole rule him out of bounds. So what did the Head Ball Coach do? (After listening to one of his coaches drop the F-Bomb...)

He just smirked at the coach. For 30 seconds. And then he went into the huddle and told one of his Big Guns to get open in the end zone.

A few moments later, The Playmaker hauled in the winning touchdown. Cardinals 21 Eagles 14.

In your face, Walnut Heights!