r/AbsoluteUnits • u/HomeNowWTF • 12h ago

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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/Several_Vanilla8916 8h ago

Middle school football can be brutal. I saw a 7th grader take off his helmet to yell at his coach for pulling him for one play after he got flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct. They were nose to nose. Coach sent him home and I was worried the kid might beat his ass.

In almost every game there was at least one and sometimes two kids bigger than every adult present. These kids are 6’2” 280 lbs at 13.

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u/PompousAssistant 7h ago

That 6’ 2”, ~275 lb kid was Ben, in my 7th grade class. Of course, Paul was the basketball star - he was ~6’ 4” in 7th grade. And you did NOT want to be on the other dodgeball team - he may have been the reason they started calling it “murderball.”

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u/testtdk 5h ago

My 8th grade coach got pissed at me because I wouldn’t shave my beard.

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u/deadshot8690 4h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/uCXkGJPU3yrOo

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u/testtdk 3h ago

Yeah, for the most part, I was not someone a 14 year old would enjoy trying to block, or be blocked by. (Expect one kid that was like 6’5 350 my freshman year. Dude repelled me like a force field).

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u/Liquid-Hot_Smegma 6h ago

Hell, even baseball can feel horribly lopsided during adolescence.

When I was about 12, there was one kid who pitched who I’d guess was about 5’5 or 5’6 and built like a rock. Not sure the exact speeds he pitched, but to us kids at the plate, it felt like 100mph fastballs. It was damn near impossible for anyone to even make contact with the ball. I do remember the few times we did get a base hit, we’d celebrate like it was a walk-off grand slam homerun.

This dude was also very full of himself, and unsurprisingly he was the biggest bully at school. Funny thing though — he only grew a couple of more inches, at the most. In junior high, he ended up getting his ass kicked badly in a fight, which thankfully ended the bullying.

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u/New_Hawaialawan 1h ago

It’s a bummer because I loved baseball prior to around 12 years old. The next league was like 12-15 year olds and that range is a tremendous growth gap. One asshole coach allowed a 16 year old to continue as a pitcher.

Dude probably had facial hair. He’d stand out there on the mound and I’d be cowering in the furthest corner of the batters box. So this bearded dude just spent all season mowing down actual children. It was awful. And my fear of batting because worse when another pitcher hit my twice in one game.

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u/3-orange-whips 8h ago

Yeah. The big kid. We had one of those. He looked a man in 6th grade.

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u/ChadPowers200_ 6h ago

We had two giant kids on our football team both were soft and quit. One was 6’5 270 the other was 6’8 300. 

They were surprisingly bad too 

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u/callofdeat6 4h ago

When I started I remember being the smallest, felt like I had to try 5 times as hard to just exist, it wasn’t fair, I got pancaked, run over, ignored, constantly. Then one day a couple years later, a ref pulls me aside and tells me I need to ease up on the littler kids…. I finally get to be the big one and now I have to tone it down.

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u/Upset_Journalist_755 4h ago

Yeah. We legit had to play against HS JV teams that were churning out Division I football players when I was in Middle School/Junior High. Our city was split into 3 schools that fed into the 6A high school. My school produced the least enthusiasm for the football program because of an old af coach and we had ~17 kids on our team and the opposing sideline often had 80 kids. It was fun, though.

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u/latexfistmassacre 3h ago

Our tiny rural school combined with another tiny rural school and we still didn't have enough to play the 11 man league my freshman and sophomore years, so we had to play 8 man ball. The years we did play 11 man, we had enough for one substitute. The entire game. We had a homecoming game once and two players got suspended for fighting during school the day before the game and we had to forfeit. The whole town was pissed at those kids for a long time after that, and they weren't even good players, we just needed them to have a game lol