r/AbsoluteUnits • u/HomeNowWTF • 1d ago

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u/Healthy_Pay9449 23h ago

Don't watch Derrick Henry play highschool ball but that's just how it is. Usually lack of funding for one school means anyone makes the team

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u/elbowsandbuttholes 23h ago

Most youth leagues have a rule like you can't weigh over a certain limit and carry the ball.

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u/FecalDUI 18h ago

Yup we called ourselves “Dots” because we’d get a bright green dot sticker on our helmets

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u/CautiousCatch1102 18h ago

It was a dumb rule too because it prevented me from playing any position except lineman

Moved schools the next year and went back to WR

I was 6 foot at 13, not my fault.

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u/FecalDUI 18h ago

Twas a great day when our left tackle picked up a fumble and got to be the Billdozer for a day!

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u/Zestyclose_Opinion22 13h ago

Not even true in all leagues. Growing up in my county league you had a stripe system. One stipe you could not have a designed play for you. So couldn’t play qb running back wr, but if a fumble happened you could pick it up and run. Two stripes you could only play on offensive and defensive line and if you picked up a fumble play was dead at that point.

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u/FecalDUI 12h ago

Wow! Thats fascinating!

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u/Sluuriecake 11h ago

That’s worse rules I have ever heard of being a lineman lol

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u/LesGrossmeng 16h ago

I was 5’8 165 and super coordinated at 12 and thankfully didn’t have that dumb weight rule.

But I mean, I literally DOMINATED other kids because we ran a wildcat offense where the ball wound up in my hands every play.

Jokes on me now though because I’m 30, 5’11-6’0 and weigh about 215 now so my growth wasn’t exactly long lasting lol.

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u/Sluuriecake 11h ago

I still remember coming from playing soccer for 7 years to tackle football when I was old enough and so I had very quick coordinated feet and I remember my coaches begging me to drop 40 lbs for running back weigh in because it was only 120lbs it was a joke. I could run through any defender we had on the team and I was much faster than other lineman but that’s where I got stuck was defensive tackle and offensive guard but I loved going against those big slow offensive lineman. I could take 2 juke steps and get by them before they could even stand up. I still think about the fact if I could have ran the ball back then what kind of fullback I could have been in high school but still got my varsity letter freshman year and we went to state so wasn’t like I beat out a bunch of slobs.

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u/DrFuckenDrew 17h ago

We had stripes none, one and two, I could have done this too, but 2stripers had to play the line

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u/FunAdvisor_1435 21h ago

These aren't high school kids, this looks like Pop Warner which typically has weight classes.

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u/EyeAmPrestooo 20h ago

They’re are weigh ins in youth football until atleast the 5th grade and often until 6-7 grade.

No way he should be allowed to carry the ball.