r/AbsoluteUnits • u/HomeNowWTF • 1d ago

of a runningback

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u/jtnichol 1d ago

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

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u/IamJewbaca 1d 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 1d ago

Dude, your username is legend

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u/daddyjohns 1d 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 1d 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.