Texas youth football team booted from playoffs for being ‘too good’ The Flower Mound Rebels had a perfect record and outscored their opponents 199-6.
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The top team in a youth football association in Texas was barred from the playoffs after officials decided the team was “too good,” a league official said.
The Flower Mound Rebels, which is made up of 7- and 8-year-olds, had a perfect record and had outscored their opponents 199-6, Keller Youth Association Vice President Rhett Taylor told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth .
Taylor, whose own team was beaten 33-0 by the Rebels, told the station that the team had “dominated” the recreation-level league — a performance that was behind the decision to keep them out of the playoffs.
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