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Overweight 12-year-old football player kicked out of league

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    6 foot 1, 297 pound pee wee football player fights for right to play

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-- follow -- feel like you've.

Well.

Hard -- Soft spoken Elijah Earnhardt -- a six foot 1297.

Pound man trapped in a twelve year old body.

Too big according to the rules to -- mesquite Peewee football and now his coaches act.

We went to bed because I wasn't -- myself supporting warm -- players.

-- mark right in his first -- is it coach this team president let him go over the football firestorm staying right with outside the line.

The same -- -- made -- go so mean that this is what's supposed to do as a hitting coach Steve what's the support every single morning departed.

I'm angry.

I mean mark Wright has twelve other boys out there on that field that's counting on them obliges them one thing and is -- constantly.

Overwhelmed at the football fall.

I mean we just got a call from Steve Harvey -- week.

A call from Manhattan San Diego that as well on the -- -- -- out there -- so he can play.

And train went the offensive line of the chargers.

And angry that her son can't -- in mesquite do you think the rules are clear though.

Absolutely not a -- or not.

Cleaner and our -- player and says -- and black and why.

If -- in the seventh or eighth grade -- -- -- -- heroes -- -- trading your way over 135 you cannot participate in our league.

-- -- hit a negative email bulletins -- business personality myself how I'm doing and how sleep at night.

When the -- -- association football team saddle up and start play here Saturday morning Elijah will be out here but he made that be sidelined all season.

Their other teams and leagues across north Texas we're trying to recruit.

Put your hand up and turn up affair broke Shawntae -- -- -- north takes Richardson rams and wants -- on his team.

Football is about you know learning growing and discipline.

And every kid needs to have bad.

You know -- whether they're big whether -- small.

But Elijah wants to feel like the world I importers -- -- I -- I don't think her.

In Dallas Sean -- Fox News.

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