As regular readers may know, With Leather moonlights as a Frank Caliendo fan site. We’ve covered the comedian’s firing from FOX Sports and hiring at ESPN, all the while clutching our bellies thusly and guffawing deeply at his non-stop John Madden impressions. It’s like “cut, it, out” for a new generation!

Because you’re Caliendoholics like us, you’ll be excited to see this clip of his Jon Gruden impression on ESPN’s Sunday Countdown. He has a wig! He makes faces! He says things about the football and his impression is pretty good! If he could somehow work in a jalapeno on a stick he’d be the greatest comedian of all time.

That video is below. WARNING: EXTREME LAUGHS AHEAD!

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All this video needs is J. Walter Weaterman’s arm landing in the end zone.

The Daily What is the Internet’s leader in Furry Gangnam Style parody videos and GIFs of cats trying to get out of boxes, but it’s also my go-to for videos of children being devastated by sports failures. Earlier today they posted that video you were probably expecting of a kid crying about the St. Louis Cardinals losing. Now, here’s a pee-wee football game that ends with an interception, then totally does not end with an interception. DEVASTATION.

YouTubers Laurineisabracken and mritty115 are here with more:

Can someone explain to me what just happened?

Kid in the green who intercepted the ball heard the buzzer and assumed that meant game over, so he threw the ball on the ground. But in football, the game doesn’t end when the timer runs out, it ends *when the guy with the ball is downed*. By throwing the ball, he basically fumbled it. Kid on the red team realized the game wasn’t over yet, the *play* wasn’t over yet, and picked up the ball and ran for a Touchdown. Red wins.

Look at his face. That kid on the green team just learned a lot about rage.

An unsportsmanlike conduct call turned into for-real unsportsmanlike conduct during a game between the West Park Saints and Miramar Patriots in West Park, FL, on Saturday. I’ll let the US News set the stage:

After he threw the flag, [official Andrew] Keigans turned around an bumped one of the players and moved the player to the side to talk to one of the other referees, the report said.

The assistant coach, who disagreed with the penalty, barged the field and confronted Keigans as he was held back by head coach Antonio Lane, the report said.

Because the assistant coach left the sidelines and entered the field of play to confront Keigans, the head referee decided to end the game, the report said.

If you read that blockquote or looked at the picture at the top of the post (or skimmed and watched the video before you read this), you might’ve stood up in your computer chair, pointed at your screen and shouted “RACE THING!” This is normal.

It’s what most of the Internet is doing. One side points out that there were four refs, three black and one white, and the black assistant coach went sprinting-and-slapping at the lone white guy. One side points out that while prejudiced people attribute this to “typical savage behavior” (their words, not mine), there is a country full of white people (Canada) who go nuts and have bloody riots at pee-wee hockey games every day. Others still point out the arrival of RICK RO$$ as a peacekeeper in the clip, because that is hilarious.

The truth is that this fight is not about race. It’s about how stupid you are for letting a convicted felon coach your little league team. Turns out the guy doing the assaulting isn’t someone racist folks assume is a criminal, he’s an actual criminal. Whoops!

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Elijah Earnheart, a six-foot tall, 297-pound 12-year-old from Mesquite, Texas, has been banned from his Pee Wee Football league for being too big. The Pee Wee league has a rule that states any 7th grader exceeding 135 pounds can not play, but must play in the school league with older kids instead.

Also, he RIPS OFF THEIR HEADS. (via NMA World Edition)

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Here at With Leather, we’re suckers for some good violence, between Brandon’s love of wrestling and my appreciation of a good football to the groin. But we don’t always get to catch all of the best stories and videos of the day, because we’re so busy trying to balance blogging and teaching MMA to toddlers. It’s a pretty hectic life we lead. But thankfully I have a lot of friends who have young kids and are starting to introduce them to sports to fill my email inbox with stories and videos of their kids dropping balls or spinning in circles. They keep me pretty grounded.

Of course that led me to exploring the YouTubes the other day for funny pee wee and child football league clips and I discovered what we basically already knew – parents are monsters. First of all, I know parents think their kids are the most awesome kids in the world, but that doesn’t mean they have to post 10,000 videos of their kids with each video claiming to be the most amazing play in pee wee football history. Secondly, kids aren’t very bright when they’re young. They can’t quite understand the complexities of football plays, so yelling at them about lining up properly or running routes doesn’t really register. You might want to stick to the basics.

Thankfully, out of the hundred or so pee wee and Pop Warner football videos I ended up watching this week, there were a few that had some quality entertainment values to them. Please note, that I’m not condoning violence in child sports – because there were a few videos I could have included but I’m not a monster so any that resulted in injuries or crying have been left out – but it is pretty funny watching kids tackle each other. Enjoy!

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