{"id":2059,"date":"2011-10-08T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gridironstuds.com\/blog\/?p=2059"},"modified":"2011-10-08T12:00:12","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T17:00:12","slug":"youth-football-player-held-in-check-by-rule-to-limit-touchdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/youth-football-player-held-in-check-by-rule-to-limit-touchdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Football Player Held in Check by Rule to Limit Touchdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are rules and then there are rules. \u00a0Fed up with Demias Jimerson&#8217;s dominance of the youth league in Malvern, Arkansas, \u00a0the league has dusted off an old rule in brought it back in.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: 5px solid white;\" title=\"referee\" src=\"http:\/\/smffl.yolasite.com\/resources\/200920FlagFootballOfficials.jpg?timestamp=1281631173827\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"155\" \/>Jimerson is now subjected to the Madre Hill rule named after current Oakland Raider and former Wilson Intermediate Football League competitor Madre Hill. \u00a0The rule states that the player in question can not score a touchdown if he has already scored three times and his team has a 14 point lead or more.<\/p>\n<p>This will make short work on many game days for Jimerson who has already scored seven touchdowns in a game this season. \u00a0This is a feat he is not likely to repeat again given the rule being instituted. \u00a0 \u00a0Unless of course, \u00a0the coach wants to tank it on defense. \u00a0Not a likely scenario.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioner of the league Teri Bryant says the rule is in place to keep the other 21 players on the field involved in the contest. \u00a0Perhaps he&#8217;s right. \u00a0A seven touchdown performance by one player is likely to leave everyone in attendance including the players in spectator mode.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of a rule like this and is there anyone in your youth league that you think should have a rule like this placed up on them? \u00a0Tell me your thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are rules and then there are rules. \u00a0Fed up with Demias Jimerson&#8217;s dominance of the youth league<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[633,857,632],"class_list":["post-2059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-demias-jimerson","tag-youth-football","tag-youth-running-back"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}