r/AbsoluteUnits • u/HomeNowWTF • 12h ago

of a runningback

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u/Greedy_Ad1564 9h ago

How was this allowed? Every single kid on one team is smaller than every kid on the other team. Ignoring the giant idiot who ran over his own QB.. this feels like 2 completely different age groups.

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u/jtnichol 9h ago

It’s absolutely dangerous. They got to do it by weight like most other places.

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u/IamJewbaca 8h ago

When I played junior football, they had a weight / age matrix. I was on the smaller side so I was usually one of the older kids on the team.

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u/jtnichol 8h ago

Dude, your username is legend

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u/daddyjohns 6h ago

This isn't very fair to the kids either. As they've said some of these 13 year olds are big as grown ass men.

Grew up with a guy we called tank because this happened to him. Tank was 6'4" 266 at 13. He couldn't ball with his friends. So he had to play with high school kids. He was on the jv team as starting nose guard. We took good care of him because he didn't have anyone there for him. Every kid isn't as lucky.

Shaq has an entire scrapbook of kids that were alienated in the same manner, where he reached out to help.

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u/I_Roll_Chicago 8h ago

Football is dangerous. Period. Look up CTE. I played high school ball and i got a concussion so bad i blacked out a full 7 mins of game clock and came to sitting on bench. Mind you last thing i remember i was blowing up a play but taking a pretty good lick from the running back.

Tl;dr football is dangerous with or without oversized players.