The utter ridiculousness of the entitlement of our football culture...

(Hat-tip to a friend who pointed this out to me...)

The more I see, the more I shake my head.

This weekend's latest example comes from Sports Illustrated.

Elijah Earnheart of Texas has been disqualified from playing in his pee wee football league (6th-7th graders).

The kid is 12 years old.

Now, there is the occasional story of the kid that just has been ruled "too good" for the league.

This one is far more obvious.  The league has a 135-pound limit for 7th-graders.

Earnheart is 6-foot-1, TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY-SEVEN POUNDS.

Let that sink in for a moment.

This TWELVE YEAR-OLD is TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY-SEVEN POUNDS.

That, to me, is an immediate red flag.

When you start hearing his mother (Cindy) and "humiliation" and all this, I really begin to wonder if the entire purpose of all of this is to basically exert her son's force as a bully and a damaging force to all unlike him...

Even in high-school, my brother was maybe a buck-80 soaking wet with pads.

"They would not even let him weigh in on the scales like every single boy out there," she [the mother] said. "He might be the size of a grown man but he's 12 years old and he has feelings, too." 

He might be the size of a grown man, but let's check him anyway to not hurt his feelings that he can't play because he's not at the 135-pound weight limit.

OH...

COME...

ON!

The president of the league, Ronnie Henderson, has his head on straight:

"We've got little boys that play against him that are 85, 95 and 100 pounds," Henderson said. "We have to look out for all the kids, not just him." 

You sic a 300-pounder on those kids, and some of them are going to come back injured, maimed, or dead.

I want to know how this guy got to 297 pounds at the age of 12 without either serious overeating or something else, while we are at it, especially given this comment...

She added: "Isn't bigger better in football? Football is a contact sport. If you don't want your son tackled, get him off the field." 

Fuck you, Cindy Earnhart.  I would get my kid off the field.  I'd rather do that than see your boy crush him, literally.