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A 21-year-old poses as middle school football player - Prep Rally - Highschool  - Yahoo! Sports.

According to the Associated Press, Tampa Tribune and St. Petersburg Times, a 21-year-old man named Julious Threatts registered to play for the 13-14-year-old Town N' Country Packers of the Tampa Bay Youth Football League on Aug. 21, and played in a game with the team the same day. Threatts, who had a past burglary conviction on his record, reportedly signed up for a spot on the team under the name "Chad Jordan" with a forged birth certificate. After further investigation, it now appears that Threatts -- an avowed Danielle Steele fan who recorded poetry readings on a personal YouTube channel -

As I watch Kareem Abdul-Jabar, Michael Doyle and Solidad O'Brien play Celebrity Jeopardy (oh, and yes I am kicking their collective ass,)  I happened upon the above article on Yahoo.com.  It's particular well written article but the entire story is a goddamn shame.

Personally, I am completely ambivalent about my high school years, so it really makes me wonder how amazing this guy's years were.  I mean, he's been trying to relive them since he graduated.  Yes, the years afterward suck (bills, feeding yourself, laundry, bills, working, taxes, college, late fees from the public library, and Time Warner) but generally the freedom and ability to shape our own lives supposedly become realized for most of us, and we are giving the chance to rise and face the constraints of our situations.

But what does it take to want to feel like a 14 yr old boy in a 20 something year old man's body.  Even Peter Pan had magic to blame.  It's just a damn criminal shame.  I hope that he gets help.  The kicker  of the article is that it seems to keep happening over and over again lately.  I mean, really, serial pedophiles that don't just stalk and pretend to be kids online, but in actual real life.

[Chester Kent

www.GetintheRye.com]

Original Yahoo article link:  http://rivals.yahoo.com/highschool/blog/prep_rally/post/21-year-old-poses-as-middle-school-football-play?urn=highschool-266086

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