When 8-year-old Elijah Burrell intercepted a pass and scored his first touchdown for his team, the Black Knights from Lawrenceville, Ga., he inadvertently caused his team to receive a $500 fine and their coach be suspended for a week.
Why?
Because of a very leftist-minded imposition on the game called the ‘Mercy Rule’, which doesn’t permit a team to score more than 32 points over the other team.
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1st… if the team was up by that much. Even an Interception should have been blown Dead by the refs. Anytime you are in a Mercy rule situation, The winning te
am can NOT advance the ball… No TD…
Like an 8 year old knows to fall down n not score because of score even if coach tells him all he is thinking about is doing his job good job 8 yr old just don’t put score on board n run the clock
When I was a coach I would rotate players to give others a chance to score who normally would not have a chance. I’m never going to tell my team to not try and score. They don’t put in many hours of practice to be told you have to slack up and not try and score. How can I tell them to practice and play at there very best if I have to tell them we can’t score anymore?