21 Year Old Playing Youth Football

Dang, why didn't I think of that?

Bummer. I was hoping when I opened the link to read an inspiring story about a mentally and/or physically retarded person fulfilling a dream, but it's just a cheating con, maybe a perv. "Obstruction by a disguised person" -- good one!

Back in 1992 (before I started coaching), an organization in my old league had a 15 yr-old playing Mitey Mite!! He got caught when one of the traditional powerhouses got run over by this kid and his team (a traditionally weak program). They hired a private investigator that tailed the kid going to and from his high school! I can only imagine the looks on the faces of the various league adminstrators when they saw the documentation/photos showing that this Mitey Mite player was, in fact, a high school student. Thank God this kid didn't maim or cripple any other kids while he was playing. It almost destroyed that program - they had recruiting and financial problems for 10+ years following that incident, but now they are a pretty strong program. Unbelievable stuff - the things people will do to win a few youth games.

This is just wrong......heres a lighter, funnier version of a similar story......several years ago when I was an asst coach at a small private HS.....the boss had planned the days practice around spending a good bit of it, running his offense "live" against a scout defense, to get ready for the coming jamboree.....well, a bunch of the kids were out that day, can't remember why....but the bottom line was me and a younger coach, in his early 20's, volunteered to play on the scout defense to make 11.....he played in the secondary(which he also helped coach) and I played DE, since I was the fatter, slower of the two of us,lol.....so I'm all excited, that I actually get to play a little real football, albeit with no equipment and pretty much just using my hands to defend myself and in the event I actually got a chance to make a tackle, I was just gonna hold the guy,maybe pick him up off the ground a little, but not get too rough with any of the kids.......well, these guys came at me with reckless abandon......took all my effort to hold my own playing d-line......it was like payback time for all those brutal practice's they went thru......man it was rough....plus from smoking for 30 years, I spent a lot of time between plays gasping for air between fighting for my life....but in spite of everything, I made it thru nearly the entire practice game unscathed and felt pretty good about myself being able to hang in there....that is until I took a facemask to the forehead and started bleeding like a stuck pig........I think it took the boss a few more plays, to realize my tee shirt wasn't red when we started and I was actually bleeding pretty good, so he called it a day......the kids were good sports about it and all told me good job, way to go coach, tried to make me feel good, the liars, lol.....and I thanked them for letting me play with them.....cause I really did enjoy the heck out of it.....anyhow, the next morning I could barely walk......my gashed up face hurt.....I hurt in places I'd forgotten could hurt......that was my last football game.....I've titled the name of this thread= "51 yr old plays football with high school team" and comes out on the bad end.

So does ours, but that doesnt stop them from bringing someone elses