These youth leagues are run by 'fans' and coached by 'fans' and watched by 'fans'. Not a real coach or administrator in the bunch. No one has any sense of perspective or decorum. They all are new to Fed rules and think everything is NFL. They've got these kids running reverses and flea flickers when they can't even line up straight over half the time. If they would spend as much time teaching these kids the fundamentals of football as they do drawing up their kooky plays and complaining about rules they have no understanding of, maybe they'd have better players coming out of those leagues.
Safety, learning, fairness and competition should be the focus of these leagues, in that order. More often than not, the first three get the short shrift.
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