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High School Football Coach Fired After Team Used Anti-Semitic Audibles

By Kevin Kinkead

Published: Mar 25th, 2021 · 9:28 AM EDT

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This isn’t a local story, but it’s so incredibly, mind-numbingly stupid that I thought you might at least find it interesting.

It centers around a Boston-area high school, with a head coach named Dave Maimaron, who was fired Wednesday because his team used anti-Semitic language when changing calls at the line of scrimmage.

Here’s what the Jewish Journal wrote earlier in the week, citing a paywalled report from The Boston Globe:

A Massachusetts high school is investigating their football team’s reported use of anti-Semitic slurs as part of their play calling during games. The Boston Globe reported that the words used during Duxbury High School’s March 12 football game were “Auschwitz,” “rabbi” and “dreidel.” John Antonucci, the school superintendent, told the Globe that the school is “investigating the use of anti-Semitic and potentially other inappropriate and derogatory language.”

This is the dumbest thing ever. Imagine you call a basic running play, like “jumbo right 26 power” or something like that. But your quarterback goes up to the line of scrimmage, sees something he likes, and shouts “kill kill!” Then, in the process of calling the audible, he shouts “Auschwitz!” In what world would any sane person think that’s a good idea?

So the high school canned the football coach, and here’s the report from CBS up in Boston:

Duxbury High School fired Head Football Coach, Dave Maimaron, after players were accused of using anti-Semitic language to call plays during a game. @wbz pic.twitter.com/HAknfcg6BT

— Anna Meiler (@AnnaMeiler) March 25, 2021

I think the lesson we’ve learned here is that if you’re going to coach football, don’t use anti-Semitic audibles. Stick to “Omaha,” as Peyton Manning would say.