The Pussification Of America Continues, Coach Suspended And Fined $500 After 8-Year-Old Son Scores Touchdown
Reports from Lawrenceville, Ga., state that head coach Brooke Burdett and the U-8 Black Knights were up 32-0 in what was surely an extremely torturous game to watch. Elijah Burdett, a player on the Knights and son of head coach Brooke, then performed one of the toughest feats in football: he intercepted a pass and returned it for a touchdown. In front of his friends and parents (particularly his coaching father), Elijah scored his first ever touchdown in his first year of organized football, which I’m sure will be unforgettable for his family and him.
It wouldn’t be much of a story if the kid had the chance to celebrate with his teammates and create a well-deserved, lasting memory. No, this story takes a strange twist when you add in the fact that Elijah’s pick-six resulted in a $500 dollar fine and a week-long suspension for his father.
It was because of the fucking mercy rule. If you’re not familiar with the mercy rule, good. You shouldn’t be. I shouldn’t be. This concept is up there as one of the most un-American ideas that we still continue to perpetuate with no shame. The mercy rule is pretty simple: one team is allowed to beat another, but not by too much. If you exceed this differential, the game ends. You aren’t allowed to win by too many points. If you were coached to compete, then obviously, the rule makes no fucking sense.
The Lawrenceville league in which the Black Knights “compete” has a 33-point mercy rule. How it came to the conclusion that 33 was just too damn much and not 32 or even 35, I have no clue. I don’t even want to know, because I’m sure the explanation will just piss me off more, rather than provide any sort of valuable explanation.
Parents of the Black Knights have offered to help pay the league fine; however, Coach Burdett will most certainly still be suspended for the week due to league rules.
Obviously, the issue has nothing to do with the fucking money, seeing as $500 can be evenly distributed between the parents. Coach Burdett is most likely still allowed to watch the upcoming game from the parents’ section, so his suspension also isn’t too significant moving forward.
The reason why this story is significant is because of the detriment that the mercy rule has caused these kids. Look, I understand rules like this are theoretically set in place to create the competitive spirit. Even with this intention, it’s not working. It’s working against the fundamental values that America has been built upon. If we are taught, at the impressionable age of eight, that we must work hard, study, prepare, and execute in everything we do, and if we don’t do these things, we will suffer the consequences, what are we actually going to learn with roadblocks such as the mercy rule in our way? It’s simply a gracious regulation that keep us from truly understanding the lessons of life.
The “Pussification of America” is real, folks. It’s a disgusting epidemic far worse than anything we are facing today. We are creating a society that promotes mediocrity, a society of idealists who feel entitled to anything they want because it’s always been given to them, a society with an overall sense that the playing field is level when it really isn’t..
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Liberals. That is all.
11 years ago at 10:35 amThis is the rule of a very conservative county.
11 years ago at 3:04 pmJohn Calhoun is a legend, dont fuck it up you chotch
11 years ago at 1:22 am1. I am a Calhoun. 2. I’m a conservative 3. I was born and raised in Gwinnett county (where the fine was given) 4. Sorry for stating facts.
11 years ago at 12:48 pmFuck Liberals
11 years ago at 10:37 amFuckin’ liberals. The “Mercy Rule” didn’t stop W from shit-stomping Iraq into the ground.
11 years ago at 10:41 amYeah but the Rules of Engagement definitely hindered him…
11 years ago at 1:30 pmNeither did Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of our Constitution that says only Congress can declare war. Presidents can’t declare war because We the People said so, but the last several Presidents drop bombs and send our peers to die anyways without the authority to do so.
Most all of our countries problems would disappear if we just followed our rule book and fired politicians who don’t.
11 years ago at 4:10 pmThe Authorization of Military Force, september 18, 2001 is an open ended power to the executive with no expiration that grants Presidents the ability to use military force against nations, organizations, or individuals at their discretion.
11 years ago at 8:35 pmThat specific clause you cited is irrelevant because they never presumed to declare war.
So, if you actually knew what was in the rule book, you would know that they followed it.
Get that uninformed Liberal shit out of here.
The bill you’re talking about gave the President permission to use force on those who attacked us on 9-11. It did not give authority to attack anyone anywhere anytime. Any law granting a leader authoritarian dictator like powers is unconstitutional and according to the supreme court, not a law at all.
Norton v Shelby County, 118 U.S. 425: “An unconstitutional act is not law. It confers no rights, it imposes no duties, it affords no protections, it creates no office, it is in legal contemplation as inoperative as though it had never been passed.”
Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137: “Anything that is in conflict is null and void of law; Clearly for a secondary law to come in conflict with the supreme was illogical; for certainly the supreme law would prevail over any other law, and certainly our forefathers had intended that the supreme law would be the basis for all laws, and for any law to come in conflict would be null and void of law. It would bear no power to enforce, it would bear no obligation to obey, it would purport to settle as though it had never existed, for unconstitutionality would date from the enactment of such a law, not from the date so branded by a court of law. No courts are bound to uphold it, and no citizens are bound to obey it. It operates as a mere nullity or a fiction of law, which means it doesn’t exist in law.”
11 years ago at 9:39 pmThe thought of you doing actual research for a TFM argument makes me chuckle.
11 years ago at 8:30 amI think you forgot about the War Powers Act of 1973. The president can commit troops wherever he wants for 60 days and has 30 days to pull them out. Typically, per our nation’s history, once this occurs, Congress agrees to declare war if the conflict is not resolved within this 90 day period. Also, simply because you construe case law in a way that favors your argument does not mean your argument it is correct. If you read those cases in the context they were meant to be read in you would know they have nothing to do with declaration of war or deployment of troops. Thank God the Supreme Court makes these decisions, not you.
11 years ago at 2:15 amPunishing someone because they’re better than you. TLiberalM
11 years ago at 10:41 amLibs are more dangerous than Ebola at this point…
11 years ago at 10:44 amIs ebola really that dangerous? Only one American has died from it.
11 years ago at 9:02 amSo back ass-wards. reward those who fail by punishing those who succeed. WAKE UP AMERICA!
11 years ago at 10:45 amI’m glad my parents and coaches never taught me to quit just because we were losing badly. What kind of adults are these poor kids going to grow into?
11 years ago at 10:49 amThe kind that ask McDonald’s to pay them 15 bucks an hour
11 years ago at 10:59 amJust read somewhere that McDonald’s is going to start phasing in automated machines to serve the food (the technology is nearing the end of development currently), so all those protestors kinda fucked themselves trying to turn a job meant for highschoolers into a career.
11 years ago at 1:33 pmthere is a Jack in the Box (I think) down in San Diego already has those that take your order. The Sheeple in the back just make the food and put it on the tray for you.
11 years ago at 2:00 pmUnfortunately, we are going to see more of this shit
11 years ago at 10:56 amContinuing to run up the score even if it means incurring more fines and suspension just to teach the kids that it’s ok to be successful. RFM.
11 years ago at 11:01 amThat’s not quite how those work buddy.
11 years ago at 11:08 amMaybe not. We should probably call in an expert on little boy’s football to verify. Paging Mr. Dorn, Mr. Roger Dorn.
11 years ago at 5:24 pmFuck off Lahey!
11 years ago at 2:00 pm