Posted on 08/17/2012 4:11:21 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
A Texas Pee Wee football league has ruled that a 300-pound seventh-grader is too big to play, according to Dallas-Fort Worth television station KDFW Fox 4's website.
Elijah Earnhardt, 12, was informed this past weekend by the Mesquite Pee Wee Football Association that he is not allowed to play in the league, according to the report posted on MyFoxDFW.com.
The league's rule is that any seventh-grader weighing more than 135 pounds is barred and must play in his school's league, according to the report.
But Earnhardt, who is more than 6 feet tall, and his mother, Cindy, told the website that they still are pushing for admission into the league.
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No, you look more carefully at the pictures, the kid IS fat, even with a big frame. Kobe Bryant weighs less than this kid. The kid’s calves are visibly fat, and his face is chubby and it’s very evident from the fat rolls under his shirt he didn’t miss too many twinkies. Better for this kid to do some swimming to pair down weight and not take a chance on screwing up knees, combined with things like basketball pick up games and just moving around in general. Even have him do the tire drills on the high school football field, etc. Most kids at that age that get to be that tall are still in 180-200 pound range at most. An older man might go up to 220 at that weight, but really even a grown man at that height who was very muscled still would likely be overweight. Even NFL linemen at that height. This kid ain’t ripped.
Reading the story at first (which had no picture of the kid in question; I had to scare that up myself), I wondered if he might possibly be acromegalic, a la the late "Andre the Giant"... but the facial features don't look even remotely distorted enough for that. (No bony eyebrow ridge; jaw isn't distended; etc.) That's about as far as my layman's knowledge of such things can possibly take me, really. ;)
300 pound Pee-Wee Player is an oxymoron
Like Jumbo Shrimp
(Is his nickname ‘Tiny’?)
Six levels of fatness according to comedian Gabriel Iglesias.
1. Big
2. Healthy
3. Husky
4. Fluffy
5. DAMMMN!
6. OH, HELL NO!
“A lot has changed, El Paso, a lot has changed. One thing’s for sure, I’m still the fluffy guy. And I say “fluffy” because that is the politically correct term, for those of you who don’t remember I used to say that there were Five Levels of Fatness. Reason why I say “Used to say” is because now there are six! Uh-huh, I met the new one in Las Cruces. The original five levels are Big, Healthy, Husky, Fluffy, and DAMN!
“People ask, “What could be bigger than DAMN!” The new level’s called “OH HELL NO!” What’s the difference? You’re still willing to work with level five. Example, if you’re on an elevator and you’re with your friend and this really big guy gets on and you and your friend look at each other and you’re like, “DAAAMN!” But you still let the big guy ride your elevator.
“That’s the difference. Level six, you see walking towards your elevator, [Deep growling noise] [Pretends to be a shocked passenger and starts pushing the “close door” button.] “OH HELL NO!” [Growl] “NO!!” [Growl] “NO!!” [Pretends to kick the fat man out] That’s the difference. The guy that I met was six foot eight, six hundred and fourteen pounds. Uh-huh, OH HELL NO!!
“And he was offended at my show. Not by anything that I said, but because of the fact that now at the shows I started selling T-shirts and apparently, I didn’t have his size. Keep in mind, I go all the way up to 5X on the T-shirts and he was like, [Deep growling voice] “You don’t have my size.” I was like, “Dude, I didn’t know they MADE you! I have up to 5X, I don’t have [Growl] X!” A picture of a dinosaur on the back of the tag, you know?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5qM5kX2_C0
Can I steal that pic?
When did that practice end?
If she forces them to let the kid play, and some other kid gets hurt his parents will sue, and the next thing you know there won’t be any pee-wee football at all.
Would working out with a high school team be legal?
It may start something we don’t want to start.
If allowed, the schools will be fighting over his choice of school.
You never heard of the story David vs. Goliath?
The sad thing about this article is the insinuation that this is a new or unique instance. Maybe an attempt to turn this into some sort of twisted “civil rights” issue.
Truth is, every community every year kids are deemed too heavy to play pee-wee. I personally know kids now and back in my day that couldn’t play. It’s a safety issue.
I wonder what they’d say if this never happened and they were instead reporting on three kids hospitalized with concussions on one tackle.
He’s obese. 100 lbs overweight and mom is in denial about his obesity. There’s a chart of thin to fat kids with drawings because parents are so unable to tell that their own child is fat. They say, “He’s healthy. He’s a good eater. He’s big-boned.” Nope, he’s just plain fat, and if he’s like the average fat kid, he’s drinking wayyyyyy to many calories in the form of soda and juice.
He doesn’t look like he’s in good physical shape, either. Yeah, he’s tall, so even if he weren’t overweight he’d still be too big to play with the other pee wee kids.
He obviously should not be allowed to play. Football is all about fairness and it’s not fair to the other kids that they aren’t this big.
“If she forces them to let the kid play, and some other kid gets hurt his parents will sue, and the next thing you know there won’t be any pee-wee football at all.”
I think you have something there. My bet is she isn’t forcing the league to let the kid play. Someone is behind this who needs this kid to play in order to promote an agenda about the dangers of football.
Expect the lawsuit, a win in court, other larger kids start playing around the country, kids start getting hurt and then the same hacks who forced this on communities will start decrying that peewee football is too dangerous and demand the game gets shut down.
Maybe Rush was onto something?
We had a 125 pound limit when I played in 8th grade.
It’s just common sense.
Little kids play contact sports with other little kids, and not adults, so that they don’t get hurt...
“they”... the adults? :)
In that seated position, he could be hiding a really, really large belly, and with the loose shorts, you’re not seeing the size of his thighs or rear.
I have a son who is over 6’1” and weighs around 240. When he’s standing, you can see that he’s overweight, and if he’s in his bathing suit, well ...
My son is almost 16. For a boy so tall and heavy at age 12, an endocrine workup might be a good idea.
True. Maybe that is why they took the picture like that - to hide his belly.
Why is this even a news story? Every pee-wee/pop warner football program that is full-contact has a weight limit. So, if the limit is 135, then the kid who weighs 138 is too big also. This is not at all uncommon.
When I was a freshman in HS, there were 8 or 9 kids on the freshman team who couldn’t play pee-wee football they were too big. Some kids were over the weight limit by 10 pounds and some by 30 pounds. There was 1 kid who was more tall than big, but he said when he played pee-wee football, he would always have to sweat out a few extra pounds (like a wrestler) before each each weigh-in because he was always on the cusp of the limit.
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