By the time he turned ten, Jenna Ceriani’s son was too heavy to play football.
The local league kicked the budding ballplayer out after he tipped the scales at 155 pounds — well above their 125-pound cap. The middle schooler’s weight had become a safety liability for smaller players on the team, they explained.
“Every time I tackle someone, they call me a fat ass,” Ceriani, who comes from the Boston area, recalled her rejected son telling her. She recounted that even before he got the boot, he’d stopped wanting to go to practice. “There was name-calling. It really did a number on his confidence.”
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