Their practice field is a dirt lot. This causes some heat in the Outlaw camp. ... On the season Finale of Friday Night Tykes, two champions will be crowned. I want him on the floor. Most Texans would agree that when it comes to weekends during the Fall season, there are few events more important than Friday night football. Amid rising concern that repeated hits to the head, even mild ones, can have long-term negative health effects including dementia and aggression, the National Football League last year banned helmet-to-helmet hits. Last years star Running Back Mizell Miller, who hadn’t even been featured so far, comes up with two monster games to lead the Outlaws. The league is in talks with the producers for a second season of the program. Friday Night Tykes returns to Texas, where football is life, to follow youth teams from the Texas Youth Football Association. “You have the opportunity to rip their freaking head off and let them bleed,” roars one. Several star players from last years teams are now backups, yet play key roles in both games. “I don’t care if they cry.” And more: “You need to smash that frigging kid. These are the words assistant Outlaws' coach Tony Coley barked at 8-year-old Tamari Hayes in last night's fifth episode of "Friday Night Tykes." Last night’s episode of Friday Night Tykes showed the tough side of our San Antonio Outlaws. Friday Night Tykes focuses on a younger group of athletes, but with similar kinds of captivating coming-of-age stories. — Friday Night Tykes (@tykes) February 28, 2017 As the season of Friday Night Tykes makes its inevitable march into the playoffs, this week’s episode focused on the debate that is not only at the heart of the show, but the center of the whole culture. Join the families and coaches that make up the San Antonio Outlaws, Texas Storm, San Antonio Seahawks, Yoakum Outlawz, San Antonio Predators and Jr. Broncos when FRIDAY NIGHT TYKES premieres Tuesday, January 19 at 9/8c. The Steelers parents case a ruckus in the stands and after a controversial loss the 210 take on another tough opponent, the Jr. The San Antonio Outlaws during a practice before a championship game. Along the way, cheerleaders cheer, tailgaters barbecue and the crowd goes wild, but intense rivalries flare, parents and coaches clash and the young players face some very adult pressures and concerns, from extreme training drills to heckling from rabid fans. But after reading online criticism that he is a joke, he fulminates against such abuse, perpetrated by “morons.” The viewer feels most outraged on his behalf because he keeps a spotless pitch, and for home games emblazons the grass proudly with his team’s red and white crest. “The trailer is definitely troubling to watch,” an NFL spokesman said before it had even begun, adding that TYFA was not part of its Heads Up Football Program, which aims to improve player safety in youth football. It’s been hard, but I’ve learned a lot! It's all part of “Friday Night Tykes,” a documentary series premiering at 8 p.m. Tuesday on the Esquire Network that shines a light on the competitive world of youth football in San Antonio. Along the way, cheerleaders cheer, tailgaters barbecue and the crowd goes wild, but intense rivalries flare, parents and coaches clash and the young players face some very adult pressures and concerns, from extreme training drills to heckling from rabid fans. 1: Fred Davis, Outlaws. But the opposition regularly leaves litter under his bleachers, which outraged this viewer as much as him. The show depicts how the children are pushed to their limits, even crying in their helmets or sprawled out on the field after taking a hard hit from another player. "I asked you to run the lap and you walked it. "Friday Night Tykes" returns to Texas, where football is life, to follow youth teams from the Texas Youth Football Association. This team has many talented players. Of all the coaches, the one who forces you to lower the volume on the remote most is Charles Chavarria, of the Jr. Broncos. Friday Night Tykes is the new Esquire Network docuseries airing Tuesdays about the world of Texas youth football. Not all the coaches seem like bug-eyed lunatics. Morgan said the coach “willfully encouraged players to injure other players” with helmet-to-helmet hits that health experts said could cause head and neck injuries. The Texas Youth Football Association featured in the Esquire Network series that started last month has drawn criticism from those who say the coaching borders on child abuse, but has been praised by others for teaching kids how to be tough. “He’s hurt, he’s hurt!” But the boy got up. I couldn’t care less if they cry.” The justification for this verbal abuse seems to be that the children benefit from strong leadership and would become better students and adults for it. About a week ago, MTV’s Friday Night Tykes came out with their fourth and most popular season yet. Still, all these niceties logged, there is no getting away from the crazy coaches and poor kids. Chavarria wrote on his Twitter feed: “Just wanted 2 say thanks for all the support from friends & family. Esquire said the show was intended to be informative. This came as a belatedly somber coda to the two preceding episodes, in which the coaches screamed themselves hoarse encouraging their young players to do as much physical damage to their opponents as possible. “I don’t want to get really hurt … injured,” the poor boy said falteringly, to no avail. The Outlaws are flawless open field tacklers. “We saw this as a peek behind the curtain of youth football in Texas,” he said, adding, “knowing what I know now, I’m not sure I would approach this the same way.”. His little brother was playing the game, though. "Friday Night Tykes" returns to Texas, where football is life, to follow youth teams from the Texas Youth Football Association. Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. The material may in places be sensational, and the program-makers major heavily on the coaches’ verbal outbursts, but it looks like Fellini next to Dance Moms and Bad Girls’ Club—the children play against streaky sunsets and in the inky dark—and is notable for asking difficult questions of its subjects. Yes, they are that deep. The Esquire Network documentary series features 8- and 9-year-old boys used as exocet missiles and mini-fighting machines by a group of coaches, bizarrely and ragefully under the impression that they are training would-be assassins, rather than young children the art of team sports. Juju's concussive hit aired at the end of the most recent episode of Friday Night Tykes, leaving viewers with a bit of a cliffhanger about the well-being of the then-10-year-old boy. “He pointed to a spot on the players’ helmet and said, ‘you hit them right here, I guarantee they will go down one by one’,” Morgan said. Please leave me alone.” That had upset her, she wept, and Donte is still recovering. Charles Chavarria, head coach of the Junior Broncos, was suspended for the entire 2014 season. Chavarria and Goodloe will continue to appear on the TV series for the rest of this year’s run, which was filmed during the fall 2013 football season. Fans of the Esquire Network show "Friday Night Tykes" will be happy to know TaDion Lott is no one-hit wonder. The popular figure on the four-season reality TV show that highlighted youth football in Texas just completed his sophomore season at East Central (San Antonio) . Two youth coaches in "Friday Night Tykes" are suspended after encouraging profanity and telling players to hit opponents. The San Antonio Outlaws begin the playoffs and with star Myzel Miller banged up they welcome back an old TYFA superstar. One team, the Outlaws, features not just fearsome coaches like Tony Coley who tells his kids to knock their opponents in the head, but Tamaira Hayes, mother of Tamari, who says: “When your kid looks bad, you look bad.” As her son tries to tackle another player, she curls her lip in disdain at the effort: “That wasn’t good.” Her abuse of rival teams is so unpleasant even the Outlaws coaches take her to task. SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - Two volunteer coaches of the eight- and nine-year old football players featured on the reality TV show “Friday Night Tykes” have been suspended for encouraging dangerous play or bad behavior, league officials said on Tuesday. Two volunteer coaches of the eight- and nine-year old football players featured on the reality TV show "Friday Night Tykes" have been suspended for … Fred Davis is the Al Davis of San Antonio. Goodloe also apologized on his Twitter feed. Elsewhere, Marecus Goodloe, of the Colts, leads his 8- and 9-year-olds in a chorus of “Fuck The Rockets,” before playing a rival team. Coaches are still in the old school “win at all costs” mindset. No. In Tuesday night’s third episode the program-makers addressed the fear and experience of injury among the boys playing the game. We see the children run, weep, and perspire with horribly reddened faces in their bulky kit concealing gawky bodies, and they seem understandably cowed by their monster-commanders. The guy who knows his kids are all from the wrong side of the tracks. Ordered to run a lap (as punishment for a mistake or rule violation so trivial that I somehow missed it), Tamari walked around the practice field instead. This video took me 4 hours to make and edit. Ordered to run a lap (as punishment for a mistake or rule violation so trivial that I somehow missed it), Tamari walked around the practice field instead. The next day he was playing as another boy was felled. Now a 5-foot-8, 150-pound sophomore, Miller is a starting defensive back for the Rockets and in six games — he missed a couple contests with an injury — he has 23 tackles and five pass deflections. Friday Night Tykes (2014 ... teams in the Texas Youth Football Association jockey to recruit the league's most elite 10 and 11 year-old players while brand new organizations like the Texas Storm and the San Antonio Seahawks aim to prove that they belong in the country's most competitive youth football league. That they come from broken families in the poor section of town and he’s turned it into a point of pride. Today I will be talking about Friday night tykes and where they are now. Keith Dyson, president of the Judson Junior Rockets, provides the series’ unintentional comic value, claiming stoutly never to allow what Internet message boards say affect him. Brian rushed on to the pitch, panic in his voice. The new reality show depicting kid football players smashing into one another has drawn controversy, but it looks like Fellini next to other exploitative offerings. “Quit crying, there’s no reason to cry,” one youngster is instructed in the first episode. Three episodes in and Friday Night Tykes, regardless of the outrage around it, is that rare thing: a nuanced, even challenging reality show. This is how football is made. And for those involved in the sport, training can begin almost a decade before the player even participates in a high-school football game. Tony Coley of the Outlaws insists, “Some kids need a kick in the butt, some need a pat on the butt, we know the difference.” That sounds reasonable, until Coley is later seen telling his hurt son to “fucking stop your crying.” Eric Nolden, a coach with the Outlaws, tells the boys: “Emotions are a female trait. “I don’t care how much pain you’re in,” his coach screams at him. Andrew and Shakia Goss said their rule had been if one of their children had suffered three concussions, then he was to stop playing football. It features parents, often conflicted about what their children are doing. “Kids hurt themselves all the time. Gloria and Kinton Armmer are forced to watch their son Jaden run endless circuits of the field as his coaches judge him to be too out of shape to participate in the game. The series, far more than the exploitative reality shows it has become bracketed with, is a portrait of family and community life, of parenting, childhood, masculinity and—something no critic has mentioned—it is beautifully directed and produced. In Tuesday night’s episode, the team with the most abusive, in-your-face coaches soundly beat their more genially-coached rivals. Rockets, 25-0. Before we talked about the visit, Coley was asked about his time on Friday Night Tykes and how it shaped him into the player he is today. He’s known for his great speed and lightning-fast change of directional ability. We watch her ferry a carload of children to school, work full-time, then pick the children up, make dinner, then get her son to practice, and look after all his teammates in her role as “mom-ager.”. “You can’t blame football,” insisted Andrew, the boys’ father, which was an astonishing thing to hear for this viewer. The sound of one child’s football helmet smashing into another’s is a horrible, jarring clang and crunch, made all the worse because the children are so small, and the poor kid who comes off worse goes in a split second from lightning-fast scamper to hitting the ground like a stone. Every week we'll be recapping the show with one of the people on it. Known for his great closing speed and skills on the offensive side of the ball, Miller was quite the hot-shot as the running back on ‘Friday Night Tykes’ for the San Antonio Outlaws and is now continuing his illustrious high school football career. These kids are tough and give the coaches 100% at practice and during games. Morgan, who has faced a raft of criticism of the league from viewers, concedes he was not a fan of reality TV before becoming involved in it, and said he is less of a fan now. Being youth players, however, can give kids more flexibility for other activities, which the Friday Night Tykes crew captured. 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