Oregon youth football player’s dirty play caught on video (VIDEO)
Most organized youth football games involve giving the football to the biggest kid and making the other team gang tackle him. Games between third and fourth graders are for kids to give them a break from video games, teach them what teamwork is and let them burn off their little kid energy.
For the youngster in this video from a recent game in Oregon, playing youth football allows him to be an a-hole. Someone associated with the Oregon City, Oregon youth football operation realized what #11 in orange was doing, cut up tape and sent it to the “league office” for review. Some actions (a punch and a kick) are worse than others (a small push in the back), but if you take the totality of #11′s actions, they’re inexcusable, especially considering the plague of youth bullying across the nation.
According to the YouTube poster, Billy Bully and his coach were both suspended for one game. Hopefully he was also sent to his room and forced to write, “I am not Bill Romanowski, nor Rodney or James Harrison or Ndamukong Suh” on a chalkboard until his hand hurt.
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Unfortunately, I have been coaching for a long time and #11′s actions are becoming more prevalent. Rest assured, I know many kids like him that are large at his age and when puberty “kicks in” the other boys will grow and in some cases pass him in size and strength. He has a “hard road” to travel with behaviors like this. I am surprised he and his coach were susupended only one game. I love the game of football and these behaviors by the coach and player are unacceptable. The parents of both the player and coach should be appauled.
I agree, D. #11 and the coach should have received a handful of games.
Where the hell were the ref’s during most of that stuff. They should loose the privalege of calling any youth game. Ref’s at that level are as important as the coaches in teaching the kids the rights and wrongs of the game. In many cases they were standing right next to the kids commiting those flagrant fouls and did nothing.
I agree Lyon. Absolutely disgusting to see an official stand there and let this stuff happen. To top it all off, as strong as #11 appears to be, he is also extremely lazy on the football field. Watch the tape again and notice how often he just stands up or walks toward the pile until he can find someone with their back turned that he can shove to the ground. Hope this league gets this team straightened out!
Of many, one thing that bugged me a lot is how #11 always sought out the smallest kids to pick on. Just lame.
And like someone accurately noted, my experience has shown that the kids that are dominant as youths – tend to shoot their wad early. We had a number of guys on our football team that could grow a beard at like 12 years old, and they ended up stalled at 5’8″ or 5’9″ — while nearly everyone else passed them up.
And as one guy noted, #11 is lazy —> which is likely a one-way ticket to obesity.
Also agreed – it’s almost like they were intentionally “looking the other way”. I mean, this stuff is BLATANT!
I coached for 21 years in youth football and I would not put up with a player like this.He should be benched and the coach evaluated for fitness to coach at this level.
There should be a bully rule like suspend the players or make them forfeit the game if the players keep up with these ridiculous antics. I hate seeing players abusing there size and getting away with it.
Disgusting. Players and Officials should be suspended. Coaches should be removed from the league.
#80 is a BULLY. Plain and simple! He is a bit bigger than most of the kids and uses that to intimidate in an inappropriate way! I am sure if a ref tossed him, the father(where he most likely learned this behavior) would of waited in parking lot to punch out the ref!
This a wrong and kids like this need to be banned for a whole season.
Unfortunately the Tualatin Valley Football league has threatened to suspend the Beaverton football team for the rest of the season (4 out of 8 games) if this video is not removed, this was because the mother of the child in question has seen the video and threatened them with a lawsuit, rather then act responsibly they’ve chosen to cow and try and cover up the incident rather then embrace it for discussion.
I’ve temporarily removed it for 48 hour until they can give me a valid reason why I should remove it, and why they are threatening a team thats already been punished by their bad decisions and poor coach choices for the oregon city team.