I remember my first Little League baseball game back in the early 60's. The Badgers versus the Wildcats. We trounced them 48 - 2 and had a blast doing it. No one stopped it, we were laughing crossing the home plate. And then the local newspaper reported the score as 37 -9. Yes, early pc in 1960's Massachusetts.

The whole thing needs a laugh track. There's no place in sports for cry babies.

Guess they need a mercy rule in basketball

I have to agree with Blarman. 161-2? Can an NBA team even beat a college team that badly, how about a real HS team? When I was in HS, in soccer we were 22-0. Our biggest blowout was like 13-0, but 4 or 5 points were scored by our second string. In my 30's our pickup team, played a team of semi / retired pros that were running a coaching clinic. We got beat, but I scored the first point. 161-2...c'mon!

Without a mercy, rule, I'd just expect the coach to put his second string in the second half. If he did that, then he is completely exonerated. If he didn't, he should be admonished for not letting his second team get some playing time.

Maybe he just wanted some of his players to break some records for the benefit of getting on a college team, but that other coach must be a clown.

The winning coach did nothing wrong.

What needs to happen is to have a mercy rule added. something akin to, "Any time a team achieves an X point lead game over winner declared." 25, 30, 50 points whatever amount they like.

I know there is no such rule here where I live and the team at the high school where I work is pathetic. It is painful to watch our football team beaten to a pulp. They really should have a rule that allows the loser to retire without the complete humiliation of scores such as this.