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The Freakonomics blog reported that economist David Romer wrote an academic paper suggesting that teams in the N.F.L. should punt less frequently.? Some coaches may laugh at Romer, but Kevin Kelley took note. Kelley is the football coach at Pulaski Academy, an Arkansas prep school, and his team no longer punts except to avoid running up the score. As Gregg Easterbrook reports on ESPN.com:
Kelley says that when he began to shun the punt, people thought he was crazy: ?It?s like brainwashing, people believe you are required to punt.? Players and the home crowd needed to get acclimated to it. ?When we first started going on every fourth down,? he says, ?our home crowd would boo and the players would be distressed. You need to become accustomed to the philosophy and buy into the idea. Now our crowd and our players expect us to go for it, and get excited when no punting team comes onto the field. When my 10-year-old son sees N.F.L. teams punting on short yardage on television, he gets upset because he?s grown up with the idea that punting is usually bad.?
The Pulaski Bruins finished the regular season at 9-2-1.
We can debate what the role of punting in football should be, but it?s almost never a good idea in fatherhood.? Occasionally, you should give in and show grace when your kids really deserve to be disciplined, but, overall, don?t punt your responsibilities to enforce the guidelines you set for your family.? To get you started, here are the 10 ways to establish clear boundaries for your children.
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Huddle up with your wife tonight and ask her:? ?How can we make the boundaries we establish for our kids even clearer??
Source: http://www.allprodad.com/blog/2012/11/26/why-punting-in-football-and-fatherhood-is-usually-bad/
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