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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So fair play is out the window – like giving every kid a trophy even though they didn’t win a thing – just rewarding mediocrity and not teaching real world toughness. So that kid should have given up HIS right to make a goal? What if it was his first and maybe only goal? He gives up that right so the other team can save face? Liberal a-holes.
The wussification of America
No way!!!!!!! Are we going nuts.????? No wonder all other countries laugh at us …….. Liberalism must go
Shove it you know where liberal pukes. After you pull your head out. There’s no room!
Very twatty
well its up to the parents to stop this
Ridiculous, why not just remove any and every incentive to work hard.
heres the deal… if your so afraid of hurting the childrens feelings, DONT KEEP SCORE! Just like Winning, Loosing is Part of the Game… its part of Growing Up, and LIFE ITSELF… 😕
Mercy Rule? More like “we don’t want anybody to feel bad so we’re going to punish you for doing your best”. How about teaching your kids that losing is apart of life, get over it. What were they suppose to do? Stop playing, standing in one place while the other team caught up in scoring?
To all you dopey liberals saying this is not a liberal philosophy I say P/C and trying to make everything and everybody equal is what is producing stupid brainwashed kids and that is liberalism personified. Face the truth.