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Youth football pick-six results in coach's suspension, $500 fine | Sporting News
Georgia youth football team the Lawrenceville Black Knights were essentially fined because they scored a touchdown.
The Black Knights are undefeated and in the fourth quarter of a recent game they were leading their opponent, Collins Hill, 32-0 when Elijah Burrell intercepted a pass and ran it back for a touchdown.
The Gwinnett Football League has a mercy rule of 33 points and that touchdown put the team over and resulted in the coach's suspension for a week and a $500 fine.
"We were all super excited," Brooke Burdett, Elijah's mom told CBS46 .
"He was beyond excited and we were fined for it.
He had no idea.
This is his first year.
This was his first touchdown.
He is an 8-year-old boy making a pick-six."
It's difficult to tell young player to not score a touchdown after intercepting the ball.
The other parents on the team don't blame Elijah for doing what he did but they want to the league to know that running up the score was not intentional.

The Black Knights even attempted to let the other team score on the next play but they refused to catch the ball.
"How do I explain to an 8-year-old kid that your coach has been suspended because your teammate unintentionally scored?" Chando John, another parent, said.
"It is hard having an 8-year-old in flight to think of everything everybody has said, other than 'I need to make a touchdown."