Pee Wee Team Fined $500 and Coach Suspended After Pick-6 Breaks Mercy Rule [VIDEO]

There is absurd. There is crazy, and than there is freaking nuts. This story about a pee wee team--the Lawrenceville Black Knights in Georgia--being fined $500 for accidentally running up the score is all of the above.

via WGCL-TV

When it comes to pee wee level games many leagues are concerned with one team blowing out and demoralizing another. The idea is for kids to play and what 8-year old is going to be encouraged to play if he gets spanked really bad in a game? Some will not care, but many will.

Like many little leagues, the one the Black Knights play in instituted a mercy rule with the mark being 33 points. Not unusual, but what is unusual is the penalty. Run up the score more than 33 points and your team is fined $500 and your head coach suspended a week.

So when Elijah Burrell of the Black Knights intercepted a pass and returned it for a touchdown with the team already up 32-0 they broke the rule. The team has now been hit with a fine and the coach suspended.

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This is beyond ridiculous. The rule is not a bad one, but do they really expect a kid that has a chance to score his first touchdown not to do so? Is that how they want to teach the game?

If they have to penalize the team there has to be a better way to do it than to cost them more money and suspend what is probably a volunteer coach.

Who is going to want to play in a league or coach in one where this can happen? If there is another option probably no one.

[WSMV]

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