290-Pound Boy Ruled Too Big for Pee Wee

make it happen at a school football team, my 2 baby’s play flag footbal and it pisses me off when i see these kids in flag that should be in tackle n knowing they to damn big to play with the lil ones, its not fair the the young ones that weight what they should weight. there should be a weight limit to each team, we have flag and C team B team & A team, if he is to big for C team and 12, they should let him play for the next squad up

Football is not a sport for small kids. Our league has restrictions about what positions larger kids can play while they are all mixed. In middle school There is an UNDER 120 league for the smaller kid who dodnot feel comfortable playing with the kids who have already matured or are just larger. It is just as dangerous for this kid to paly with older kids who are faster and more experienced as it is for the smaller kids to paly against him if not more. My son was not very big at 12 and went head to head with kids who out weighed him by  more than 100 pounds. He was much faster and more coordinated and usually got the better of these kids. I would let him do it again. I say let him play.

Is anyone thinking about the safety of other children? A child of his size could do some serious damage to the average 12 year old.

I keep hearing the word fair thrown around here, life is not fair and this kid is learning it the hard way because parents whose tiny kids that should not be playing football if they are worried about their kid getting hurt is making it unfair to their own children. What happens when your pint sized princess gets to high school and is afraid to go up against this same kid because yours is still 135lbs soaking wet and here is this giant standing in front of you because as a freshmen if he is still growing he will be 6’4″ or taller, are you going to cry that he is to big for your precious princess to play against? what happens then? If my son wants to play football and he is small he will have to learn what position is best for him and I better be ready for broken bones, I accept that, I understand that football is a full body contact sport that can cause physical harm to my child and if my son is a giant as he probably will be I expect you to use your brain as a parent and decide if it is a good idea for your kid to play a sport where bigger, stronger and faster is what is expected and is rewarded.

When I was in pee-wee football (about 100 years ago) the bigger kids were made to put an “X” on their helmets so they couldn’t carry gthe ball. This helped keep injuries down, and the other teams tended to work AROUND the bigger kids. Let him play.

The kid shouldn’t be too upset.
Someone should assure him that if he maintains size in porportion to his age, he’ll easily make it in High School, College Football, even the NFL.

Being a retired NFL linemen…(Denver Broncos)…Some of you men on here are truly punks.. Yes the kid is heavy and he needs to lose weight. The fact that we wants to play football will help him to lose the weight. I was that heavy kid and was told I also was too heavy to play. It really hurt my self esteem but I had great men that helped me get past it. Not only did I start in college but I made it to the NFL.. That’s a place some of you spineless jerks on here can never say..

There are kids in the McDonald’s play area that weigh over 200 pounds!  Its scary, what if one of them lands on top of a toddler?

The NFL should be watching this kid

I’m 260 5’9 with a 32 inch waist and I wear a 2x. I don’t lift weights, probably should. I am morbidly obese?

I COULD UNDERSTAND IF HE WASN’T IN SHAPE; BUT HE LOOKS GOOD.  

Wow, okay, i am coming from experience here. I WAS one of these kids. . . in 3rd grade i moved schools and they had to move in a desk that i could fit in (this takes a toll on a kids emotions). as soon as i was at the new school coaches started asking me to play, Everytime i went to another town, or a team came to ours, i had to pull out my birth cert. parents complained. honestly, i was the nicest kid ever, not a big bully, but mommy and daddy were scared for their kids, and i understand this protective nature, but this is non-sense, what if your kid had really long legs, and they told them they couldn’t run track? this is crap. I want to meet this young kid and talk to him. I did go on to play, started both ways, was recruited by private HS’s and colleges. I ultimately shattered my shin (fib & Tib), and it tore me apart, everything gone in a flash, but BEING ABLE TO PLAY, had given me a lesson, go on no matter what. . . 2 rods, bolts, pins, staples, shock-theropy, Demo, Morph, crutches, 2 surgerys and a year later. . . I was done – still tried to play and broke again. devastation., to say the least, what i am getting at here, is w/out the time i spent in the game, i would not have been able to bounce back, crack the books hard, and obtain academic scholarships for D-1 universities. I would not have the career or confidence that i now have. This kid needs support, no matter what size, listen, if these other kids get to college, they are not going to stop the 320lb lineman from hitting him. If you want sports based on size, then put them in wrestling, i did that for many years and its a great sport. what i like to call “6th place trophy parents” need to start being real with their kids.  life isn’t fair, but these kind of rules are killing an already unjust life. This is completely prejudice. (and to the diet talkers out there, that crap too, how much can this kid press?)

And if this is soo unhealthy , what should his height and shoe size be? is 6-1, 130, size 13, ok? or is it drastically underweight?

Well he is still a child, I feel bad that he can’t play but even though it may seem unfair they do have to take into account the safety of the much, much smaller children. He has the body of a full grown man and the other children can get hurt as a result. It’s selfish of his mother not to look at it from that point of view. I wouldn’t want my 4ft something child playing football against someone who is over 6ft tall. It’s just too much of a safety hazard. Sucks that he can’t play though, he’d probably do good on a real football though!

First off, screw all of you who are picking on the kid cause of his size. Second, to the mom, rules are rules. So we are supposed to break the rules for him cause he doesnt want to play on a school team. So if we do it for him then we have to do it for everyone.

Yea, let him go out and play and fall on some scrawny kid and break his neck. Then see how happy his bully momma feels. Perhaps she would be proud of her little boy. Eh?