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Texas Pee Wee Banned for Being Too Fat

By Josh Hill | Aug 16, 2012

12-year old Elijah Earnheart was told he couldn't play with his friends in a football league because he's too large to play according to the league. /

Everything is bigger in Texas, including their seventh graders.

A Texas Pee Wee league has ruled that 300-pound seventh grader Elijah Earnheart is too big to play in their league located in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. He was informed this past weekend by the Mesquite Pee Wee Football Association that he is not allowed to play in the league due to his size endangering the safety of the other players.

The league, which has a 135-pound weight limit, informed Elijah that he can go to another league and play, but if he can’t join theirs; something the seventh grader said he wanted to do so he could be with his friends.

“I don’t want to play in school right now because it’s people that’s had experience and I want to get some experience first and then start playing,” Elijah Earnheart told the website. “I just want to play because my teammates are my friends — I know them. I don’t want to go play for somebody else I don’t know.”