Ridiculous story!

Ed Rendell would say we’re becoming a “nation of wusses,” and he’s probably right. The gist of this nonsense is that a local youth football coach could be facing a $500 fine because his team scored too many points in a game. And the plot twist is that the coach in question is Torrey Smith’s brother-in-law.

Details via NBC 10:

Kyle Williams told NBC10 he knew he was dangerously close to breaking the rules Saturday morning when his youth football team, the Conshohocken Golden Bears, went up 30 to 0. The rules of the Keystone Sports League, which features kids no older than 7 years of age, prevent a team from going up by more than 30 points.

“Less than two minutes left I called a timeout because I wanted to pull the starters off the field,” Williams said. “I put kids in there who normally never played.”

When one of the second stringers, a 5-year-old boy, got the ball he ran toward the end zone as Williams ran along the sideline and repeatedly yelled for him to fall down. The boy still scored however, putting the team up 36 to 0.

Now Williams is facing a possible $500 fine and a 2-game suspension.

“I have three sons,” Williams said. “I’m not gonna tell my son, especially if he’s running the ball, ‘Don’t go out there and give it your all.'”

Thoughts:

  1. Outrageous rule in general. Nobody should be fined a single dollar because their team went out and beat another team by too many points. It’s not like Kyle Williams was winning 63-0 and sent out the field goal unit.
  2. Williams has “starters”  and second stringers in pee wee football? Shouldn’t every kid should be on the field at that age, regardless of whether they’re good or not? That seems a little weird to me.
  3. He’s absolutely right with that last quote. How are you gonna tell a kid to not play his or her hardest? That’s antithetical to everything that young American kids should be taught.

What say you?

I agree with pretty much everything Torrey says: