Place your bets, place your bets ... on Pop Warner football

Totally possible. But with you it's way more fun the other way. Bonus points this time because it took two posts for you to comprehend the very basic point I was making.

The AAU guys are dirtier, but the Pop Warner guys are crazier, if that makes sense.

 

It does actually.

 

This IS an old story, but saw the first part of Outside the Lines today and they just arrested a bunch of the coaches, so that's why it has resurfaced.

 

The arrests are new. And to keep things straight, Orange County, Calif., is where the Pop Warner bounty system was in place.

 

Someone say "Place your bets"?

 

It's fashionable to claim college football players are exploited. Sorry. These -- the pre-teens -- are the most exploited kids associated with football.

Flip side: By the time they get to the U, for example. they've been seduced by the culture and fixated on it. They're not naive victims anymore. They know precisely what they're getting into when they sign with a program bankrolled by Nevin Shapiro et al. In fact, that's precisely why they become Hurricanes: so they can get their share.

 

The latest example being a 9-year-old girl being profiled on SportsCenter for her Pop Warner exploits. It's a good story, and I know we have a thread on it here, but your post made me think of it. I sort of cringed when ESPN did its piece on her this afternoon.