Phillip Merling was a big distraction for the other first-graders.

Towering over his classmates, looking like a third-grader who'd been incorrectly assigned to that class, he complicated matters by being a dynamo, and rambunctious, as teachers tried to keep order. So they called in his parents.
He was disrupting class because he was so playful, so much larger than all the other students," his mother, Sharon, remembered.

His teacher suggested sports to channel Merling's energy, maybe football. But the only football league available near them in Hampton, Va., required children to be at least 8 years old; Phillip was barely 6.

He was already as tall as most 8- or 9-year-olds and when the Merlings spoke with youth league coaches about their predicament, they pulled some strings to let him play.

good read
link to rest of story
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/dolphins/content/sports/epaper/2008/05/04/a12b_dolphins_0504.html

 

I think merling will be force for us. the main thing for him is to 100% healthy for camp...

 

your welcome...:up: