"Madre Hill" Rule, Strikes Again

[SpeedPagan]

Demias Jimerson, Arkansas Football Prodigy, Banned From Scoring More Touchdowns (VIDEO)

Demias Jimerson is so good he's no longer allowed to score.

The 11-year-old Arkansas football prodigy has been slapped with a little-known rule inspired by former Arkansas Razorbacks star Madre Hill, who ran all over teams while playing at the same Wilson Intermediate School years ago. According to Yahoo's Rivals Blog, the "Madre Hill Rule" limits Jimerson from scoring if he has already scored three touchdowns and his team is ahead by at least 14 points.

While schools typically don't hold back young stars like this, the rule is intended to keep the game fun for everyone. As Sports Grid explains, the rule helps give other players a shot at carrying the ball.

"The other players on both teams... Twenty-one are just left out, sort of. It's all Demias," WIFL commissioner Terri Bryant told Fox 16.

In his extremely well-spoken television interview (which you can see below), Jimerson detailed his priorities:

"I’m gonna run hard and bring our team to victory," said Jimerson. He added, "But God always comes first, before anything, and grades second."

Check out the video below to see the Jimerson's skills in action.

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I've never been in favor of rules like these. I don't care if you're in the 5th, 6th or even pee-wee football. If you suck at football, then you suck at football. My concern is that Jimerson's is being held back so that things are "fair" (life isn't fair kids, better get that through your skulls right now), and if he's held back from performing at his peak, then he won't be able to develop further as a football player. An athlete who excels at his chosen sport should be praised for his natural talents, not punished because all the other kids suck compared to him.

 

[Benevolent One]

You have a good point, SP.

A lot of kids are gonna be really shocked when the real world smacks them in the face some day. Life isn't fair. Sometimes you do lose and you have to figure out how to deal with it and how to get better before it happens again.