If you can’t beat ‘em…ban ‘em?
That’s what happened to LSU star running back Leonard Fournette when he was 12 years old.
In a feature for USA Today, Greg Schroeder wrote that some local New Orleans parents actually started a petition to keep Fournette off the field because he was too darn good.
At 12, his talent was too much. Parents from opposing teams signed a petition to have him banned.
“He was bigger than everyone,” says Corey Scott, Fournette’s uncle. “He basically just destroyed ‘park ball.’ He was running over all the kids.