It's not crap. Unfortunately for the kid he's in no mans land and will have to wait til high school to play organized football. You can't fault either sides and it sux. Especially with all this concussion talks and stuff floating around, there's nothing anybody can do. You can't have a 12 year old kid playing football against older kids especially if he's only been playing for a couple weeks, which is why the NFL has an age requirement in effect. And obviously he can't play against kids half his size or he'll kill them. Unfortunate story.