Photo Credit: ©Kevin Stockwell, Pascoag, RI
The Capital City Buccaneers of the Rhode Island Preteen Football League (about 18 hours, 1 minute from the Dells) were booted from the league after their coach decided to try to sneak a player who was 19 years old (one of the actual player’s older brothers) onto the field. The league has teams with players ranging from 9 to 14–the game in question was for 13-14 year olds.
The Buccaneers had another team (maybe their younger team) and a cheer squad, which were also booted from the league for the rest of the year.
“He wasn’t thinking, and that’s all that he could tell me, was that he was not thinking,” team founder Alexandra Diaz said.
The Buccaneers can reapply to be a part of the league next year. According to Diaz, the coach responsible has been fired and the varsity team has been banned for the remainder of its season.
Three thoughts from all this:
- Football in Rhode Island suddenly seems way more serious than I would have expected…team founder? Cheer squad for youth teams? Varsity tied in? Almost sounds like soccer in the UK…
- It’s surprising this didn’t happen in a state that is generally considered a football hotbed, like Texas or Pennsylvania…or a state where there just isn’t that much else going on and they take football way more serious than they should (looking at you, Wisconsin)…
- Anyone seen the vastly underrated (difficult to do for a Rob Schneider/David Spade movie) Benchwarmers?
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