Posted on 09/17/2024 9:17:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
When Kristin Cavallari goes viral for something she said on her "Let's Be Honest" podcast, it's usually because she made an eye-opening comment about a controversial topic. This week, however, she talked about her oldest son.
Cavallari, the ex-wife of former NFL quarterback Jay Cutler, revealed on her podcast that her son Camden is now playing tackle football. Her son is currently in sixth grade and is going up against much bigger opponents who are either in seventh or eighth grade. At first, she tried to hide her feelings about her son playing such a physical game. Now that she's seen him get "roughed up" on the field, she's not holding those emotions back.
On the latest edition of "Let's Be Honest," Cavallari revealed that she's "wrecked" after seeing her son get hit during the course of a game.
"Thinking of him being scared out there just wrecks me," Cavallari said, via TMZ. "It just wrecks me - more so than the physical aspect. Obviously, physically, I don't want him to get hurt. And then he got hit a couple other times. It's so hard seeing your baby get hit."
Cavallari said she could tell her son was scared after being on the wrong end of a huge hit thanks to her motherly instinct.
Football is technically in Camden's blood. After all, his father was a Pro Bowl quarterback with over 35,000 career passing yards and 227 touchdowns.
That being said, Cavallari and Cutler's son doesn't have to keep playing tackle football. He can hang up his cleats whenever he wants.
Bears fan?
Can’t imagine the kid loves this kind of attention.
Talk to his father about making sure he is in an age appropriate group… shut up about your ‘baby’ on your podcast… he’s 12.
Football leagues are based on weight. The only way a 6th grader is going up against 7th and 8th graders is because he’s totally muscle or a porker - I’m going to bet it’s the latter - been there, done that …
>> sixth grade and is going up against much bigger opponents who are either in seventh or eighth grade
AKA middle school years, but not until HS are the schools typically supporting football athletics. I’m guessing the young man is participating in a PAL league of sorts. There should be age & weight differentiation however.
Unfortunately some districts are operated by complete a-holes that encourage unsportsmanlike conduct. We dealt with this personally, and it requires a fair amount of personal restraint to not inflict justice on the offending coaches and parents.
BTW, youth football is perhaps among the best teachers of manhood, teamwork, and responsibility.
In 2004 LSU defeated Vanderbilt 24-7 and beat Jay Cutler up all over the field...after the game, Cutler’s parents complained that he shouldn’t have to play against such large opponents who were so much better than him, that he would get hurt...
Apple/Tree/small area of fall
Cutler was one of those football executives love, but a never saw it. I think Tebow would have been better if given a chance. But, Cutler made $125M for his career.
Then, his wife divorced him, because he wanted to spend time with his kids, after he worked the first 34 years of his life.
Mrs. Cutler seems to want to get attention. She wanted her husband to keep playing, and divorced him because he decided to quit with a pile of money and an intact body, and then goes public about their son. Useless woman.
A plastic fake blonde.
Agreed… a 6th grade skinny kid wouldn’t be playing against an 8th grader no matter how good right?
The height/weight difference a big deal here
He made $125M from football. It’s possible he made more from endorsements.
Maybe in the big cities they are weight based, but not in the rural areas...there we are lucky to field a full team of 11 in some places...so it is age/grade related independent of weight.
I was a CC runner so didn’t play, but my youngest brother did. They couldn’t field 22, so many players had to play both offense and defense the whole game.
When I grew up, we only had little league then Babe Ruth league, which was age 13 thru 18.
That made it kinda tough for a little rookie 13 year old to go to bat against a fully grown 18 year old.
Football is aged based in Southwest Ohio.
My son first started on a 5/6 year old team. But he was so enthusiastic, the 7 year old team coach asked if he wanted to play “Up”. He would play his 5/6 game and then get extra play time as a second stringer on 7.
He loved it and would brag about his exploits making tackles on 7 year olds. He played up through all his Pee Wee years until he made it to the 7th 8th grade school team. He was ready.
Then lettered four years in high school. He also played club hockey in winter. He was too small to play college football so he did club hockey in college, where they made it to the National Championships his senior year.
It’s not the boy in the fight but the fight in the boy.
Used to play football with my brother and neighborhood kids. I was in sixth grade; he was in tenth as were many of his friends. The only downside was being chosen near last because everyone else was bigger. Wasn’t touch.
6th graders should not be on the football field with 8th graders.
I was on at team as a 7th grader that played 9th grade teams. Needless to say we never won.
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