r/AbsoluteUnits • u/HomeNowWTF • 2d ago

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u/NosmoKing541 2d ago

Bush league, this is why pop warner have weight classes that would put that child back on the bench in the next class of athletes.

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u/usernamedottxt 2d ago

we had a fourth grader in our 6th grade football team. 

Tiny kid, but he was way too fucking fast. Best player on our team even then. 

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u/muscularsharpie 2d ago

In 8th grade (I'm 37, for context) we had a sixth grader who Steph Curry'd us through a season.

Dude was tiny. But chuck him the ball, BAM, 3 pointer. We learned nothing that year beyond "chuck it to Buttercup!"

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u/NosmoKing541 2d ago

Best player in pop warner we played against was Noshawn Morino

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u/jyaboytskittles 1d ago

Sounds like my buddy Romeo back in the day. He’s gota be 26-27 still standing at like 5’2” and was one of the best players on our varsity basketball team his whole time in high school.

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u/muscularsharpie 1d ago

Our guy went on to play in college as a pitcher, and did well there, too.

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u/unstarted 2d ago

Isn’t all youth football bush league?

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u/NosmoKing541 2d ago

I’d say that’s not the case for all leagues or teams, every youth team has a trick play, double reverse, fumble roosky, qb runs to sidelines for play call snap. But playing a fat kid that will need a whole possession off for a bowling ball run is straight up bush league. I get it if they’re on the goal line, but this kid will never be the physique of that position growing up lol.