How to teach football?

[doctorcoug]

I'm curious how you taught football to your kids. I've got a 3 year-old boy who is interested, but obviously can't get it. My six year-old girl loses interest after watching ten minutes.

What did you do to teach your kids? What ages?

[Green Monstah]

I'm in a similar boat as you, but I think "exposure" is the right answer.
I grew up in a town without a football team with parents who are not sports fans. I moved to PHX for high school and didn't play football (okay, I tried, but those kids who had played since they were 8 kicked the shit out of me).

So, all my friends understood football far better than I did. I learned the basics just by watching. I'm not sure a chalkboard and the Xs and Os would have helped a whole lot, because in a lot of ways it's like learning a new dialect.

[DU Ute]

Billy is going to be a bruiser, don't worry about him. Your girls, like mine, just wanna dance.

Eli looks like a momma's boy.

Welcome back, Viking. How goes it?

[Viking]

Welcome back, Viking. How goes it?

Long summer. I love BYU football and no matter how busy I am, I can make time for CUF during the season.

[Shaka]

See if you can't find a way to get them to follow a certain player. When I was a little guy I found books in the library about Staubach, Bradshaw, and Tarkenton and started paying attention to those guys. Pretty soon I started to follow receivers like Drew Pearson, John Stallworth, and Lynn Swann. Then Franco Harris and Tony Dorsett gained my attention. Pretty soon the whole thing had snowballed and I was a raving football lunatic. By the time I was old enough to start playing I had read virtually every football book the library had. I even read the fiction stuff by authors like MAtt Christopher.

I also glommed on to a lot of BYU guys including all the famous QB's. JC VonColn was my inspiration for playing linebacker and I modeled my play on him. Fortunately I didn't model other aspects of my life on him like an addiction to Percodan.

[doctorcoug]

Billy is going to be a bruiser, don't worry about him. Your girls, like mine, just wanna dance.

Eli looks like a momma's boy.

My wife wants to put him in counseling because of his bruiser attitude.

Eli doesn't pick on people because of his size, but he certainly is the pin cushion. He'll likely be the toughest.

All the girls want is to paint their toenails. I'm trying to fix that.

[Top Ute]

I'm curious how you taught football to your kids. I've got a 3 year-old boy who is interested, but obviously can't get it. My six year-old girl loses interest after watching ten minutes.

What did you do to teach your kids? What ages?

Take them to a game, even if it's a high school game. Play catch with them. Involve a special privilege that incorporates football, like staying up a little late to watch a game. If your kids believe it's about them and their interests, rather than you and your interests, they'll eventually take to it.

[pellegrino]

I was way too small and skinny to play tackle football in middle and high school, but when I was little we would play sandlot football (literally a vacant lot with sand and weeds) with the neighborhood kids. Then there was recess at school, where we played quite a bit too, but I learned strategy and positions through a great flag football coach in fifth and sixth grade. We had a playbook for offense and we studied that like it was the bible. Our second year we even learned how to run a screen play. Then the defense would do stunts on the line and had special blitz packages he'd call out on the sidelines with a new code each game. He did a really good job of teaching us fundamentals (how to take a hand-off, how to block, etc.) I look back on those two years with a lot of great memories and it really made football come alive to me.

[Viking]

My wife wants to put him in counseling because of his bruiser attitude.

Eli doesn't pick on people because of his size, but he certainly is the pin cushion. He'll likely be the toughest.

All the girls want is to paint their toenails. I'm trying to fix that.

We are all dependent on your boys to be sports stars because the rest of us can't do anything but make girls

[wuapinmon]

We are all dependent on your boys to be sports stars because the rest of us can't do anything but make girls

Where in the hell have you been? Achava que vc tinha falecido.