R.I. team to play in Pop Warner Super Bowl despite fight
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The Edgewood Eagles will be allowed to play in the Pop Warner Division II Midget Super Bowl Championship Game at 3 p.m. today in Florida despite an altercation yesterday involving the team. The Eagles will play against the Goulds Rams of Miami, Fla.. The ruling follows a disciplinary review board hearing last night, said Pop Warner spokesman Jason Howarth. The Edgewood team was involved in an altercation yesterday where members of the Dorchester Eagles, Mass., Midget team assaulted members and adults affiliated with the Edgewood team, according to Howarth. Both teams were evicted from the their hotel In Florida, where the national competition is under way. The two teams consist of players ages 11 to 15. Once something such as a hotel eviction happens, Howarth said, a Pop Warner team or teams involved become in violation of the Pop Warner Code of Conduct policy -- policy coaches of all the teams in Florida -- some 64 -- must sign. The code violation generally triggers a disciplinary review board, made up of three neutral regional Pop Warner officials -- for which a hearing can be held in as little as four hours but within 24 hours. Howarth said that Pop Warner reached out to see if both parties wanted to hold a hearing last night. The Rhode Island team did so but the Dorchester team failed to respond, he said -- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney There have been "multiple behavior issues" involving the Dorchester team this week, he said, and due to that and security concerns the team's sports complex credentials were revoked. A hearing for the Dorchester team was slated for 12:30 p.m. today. The review panel, at last night's hearing, decided to grant the Edgewood team a one-day waiver of the requirement that teams must be on the competitions grounds -- which was not the case once the teams were evicted from the hotel in Lake Buena Vista -- the Orlando area -- where the competion is held. The review board also determined that the Edgwood Eagles could potentially receive further sanctions as Pop Warner continues to investigate the incident. 
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Thanks Edgewood for making the New England and Rhode Island/Southeast Massachusetts Region Proud. Shame on you all (parents and coaches included) for behaving the way you did. And Dorchester Eagles, you too have disgraced the name of the New England Pop Warner Region. I really wished the National Pop Warner Board of Directors had made both teams forfeit their games. No one should have behavior like that rewarded. Shame on everyone involved. Shame, Shame, Shame
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you can take the kids out of the hood but you cant take the hood out of them.. This is what happens when a bunch of suburban kids who are not taught mannors act when they get to go somewhere. Shame on all their parents, these kids are playing football to stay off the streets, yet they still cant act civilized?? I actually gave them $ a while back to donate to them and they didnt even say thank you.. what a shame..
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