Part of the fun of watching junior footy is trying to spot the one kid who hit their growth spurt before everyone else and is subsequently running roughshod all over the rest of the under 10s out there. It’s what makes half time at the footy actually interesting.
But there’s “the big kid on the ground,” and then there’s this kid, because holy shit there is absolutely no mercy on display here.
The US media and US sports circles are currently going absolutely nuts over a short highlight reel featuring a 9-year-old Australia rugby league player who might as well be called Pancake Patterson, because he flattens fools.
Meaalofa Te’o caught the attention of the official USA Sevens social media channels, when his pint-sized beast moding caught their attention yesterday.
The video has subsequently been viewed some 25million-odd times, which is easy to understand when you see some of the fend-offs the wee lad throws out.
Pure. Carnage. #Rugby @USASevensRugby pic.twitter.com/eMUF0aHC3x
— USA Sevens Rugby (@USASevensRugby) September 13, 2016
GOT DAMN.
The story’s been picked up far and wide across the the US sports media by outlets like Bleacher Report, SB Nation, the Washington Post, and UPROXX. All of whom are lauding the young lad as the human version of a hit stick.
I mean, some of those hits are clearly pretty vicious, and these are mere children after all.
But hooley dooley, with size and speed like that? Let him (safely) steamroll over a few cobbers.
You do you, young blood. You do you.
Source: USA Sevens/Twitter.
