To no one’s surprise, 12-year-old Leonard Fournette was so good at football, so much bigger and better than his competition, that parents tried to ban him.
According to USA Today’s George Schroeder, when Fournette was 12 years old, parents of kids on opposing teams just wanted him off the field.
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.”
As a seventh-grader he also went toe-to-toe with high school senior Tyrann Mathieu, and according to Scott, “ran over the Honey Badger.