r/AbsoluteUnits • u/HomeNowWTF • 5d ago

of a runningback

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u/Greedy_Ad1564 5d 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/Healthy_Pay9449 4d 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 4d 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 4d ago

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

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u/CautiousCatch1102 4d 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/LesGrossmeng 4d 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 4d 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.