What is the point of the ball carrying weight limit?
The majority of the reason the rule is in place is for fair play among the younger divisions. While these young 7, 8 and 9 year olds are learning their football fundamentals, we want to be sure that the playing field is as level as possible. Football is a contact sport and we want all our younger players to get a comfort level with the contact while ensuring their safety and building their confidence. The Safety of our FFL players is our utmost concern, however, limiting the size of players on offense does not ensure the overall safety of our participants. The safety of our players is ensured by our coaches whom we implore to teach proper fundamentals, by our officials who officiate our games and lastly by the players who play the game within the confines of the fundamentals they are taught and the rules of the game. As our players progress through the FFL we stair step our rules. Early on, we have many restrictions and then lessen the restrictions as they get older and have developed
