Youth football drill goes viral and causes
massive outrage: 'This is child abuse'
Fox News,
by
Ryan Gados
Original Article
Posted By: Pinkpanther,
5/12/2021 1:36:24 PM
A video of a youth football drill went viral Tuesday and sparked outrage on social media, with many wondering whether children should be doing something like this. The 8-second clip shows a young ball carrier going head-to-head with a would-be tackler. The ball carrier lowers his helmet and runs over the defender, and it appeared the two connected with each other’s helmets. The defender hit the ground and was a little shaken up, video shows. Social media users were outraged upon seeing the hit. It’s unclear when the video was taken or what youth
Reply 1 - Posted by:
leonardo 5/12/2021 1:42:27 PM (No. 783249)
The MAGIC Words: " ... sparked outrage on social media ... ."
Time to GROW UP, social media TWITS.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/12/2021 1:51:29 PM (No. 783266)
Tennessee Titans field, etc. Probably this from an earlier year?
https://www.tennesseetitans.com/community/youth-football-camps/
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Catherine 5/12/2021 1:54:20 PM (No. 783268)
My cousin's boys played football in school. She said they make them run til they throw up. This is in Louisiana in the ungodly heat. I never understood that.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
seamusm 5/12/2021 1:54:24 PM (No. 783269)
Why is it legal for the runner to lower their head but not the would-be tackle? Should be forbidden whether with or without the ball.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Catfur27 5/12/2021 3:17:44 PM (No. 783338)
...as the late, great, Rush pointed out : We are seeing the attempted "sissification of America"
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
chumley 5/12/2021 3:22:34 PM (No. 783345)
Based on what I saw as a youth, this IS youth football. The coaches treat the kids like animals and make them do exhausting, painful drills and the kids love them for it. Dont like it? Dont play football.
I left after one practice and didnt look back. Despite my massive size and strength, I didnt like being abused. At the same time I never tried to tell anyone else they couldn't do it.
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Keerist it’s football, not Mahjong!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Sully 5/12/2021 3:34:33 PM (No. 783358)
Those kids were mismatched. You don't mismatch kids at that age in power drills. You also don't run em till they puke. You don't do that till maybe 9th grade.
You treat little kids differently before they're old enough to lift weights and work out.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
smokincol 5/12/2021 5:29:56 PM (No. 783526)
that's what football is, it's known as a "contact sport"
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
TXknitter 5/12/2021 5:38:32 PM (No. 783534)
Your story very similar to my boys, both tall at 6’6” in high school and very muscled but not interested in football. They loved other sports. They grew up with too many boys who would happily have done other things but it meant so much to their parents...
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 5/13/2021 1:36:19 AM (No. 783848)
Football, not patty cake. Hitting is a fundamental part of of the game. Don't like it, then don't play. I learned at age 13 that I was too small to have fun tackling bigger guys in sandlot football, got my bell rung really well, and STOPPED. I like watching the game at times, but the NFL has wrecked that, so no more NFL games.
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My husband coached peewee football in Texas over a span of 10 years with all 6 of our sons playing. While this drill was done poorly, these boys have to be prepared to face larger and stronger players. I can’t help but think the new target of cancel culture is youth football. They’ve already neutered our boys in the public schools so now they’re making sure there’s no other avenue for boys to learn proper masculinity. As an aside, I never used to be this way but I can’t help but think the small white player being pitted against a much larger black player by a black coach was deliberate.