Patriots QB Drake Maye Takes No Prisoners In Dodgeball

I don't know that there's anything that builds character quite like a game of dodgeball, and that's what New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye and his teammates were doing on Tuesday: building character by clobbering children with foam balls….

…oh, and having fun at the same time.

Maye and company dropped by the Perkins Community Center in Dorchester, Massachusetts for Patriots Day of Play.

I'm not entirely sure what that necessarily entails, but if you imagine being a young Patriots fan and a bunch of the players show up to play games with you. It would probably be as cool as at least a dozen Christmases.

7News Boston's Stephen Quinn shared some video of Maye using that throwing arm of his to wing some dodgeballs at children.

Man, that kid who got drilled in the thigh has one heck of a story to wow his school chums with.

As something of a dodgeball aficionado, I appreciated two things Maye did here. First, he didn't hold back on these kids. I mean, he didn't lean into it like he was trying to launch it downfield, but there was some heat on that foam dodgeball (if you've been out of the dodgeball loop for some time, you may be bummed to learn that those red balls that would leave a criss-cross pattern on nerds' faces have long since gone the way of the dodo).

Secondly, I like that when Maye hit that kid, he immediately gave him the "take a seat point." That point is universal dodgeball body-speak for "I know it hit you, you know it hit you; go sit on the bleachers and watch while I throw some seeds at the rest of your classmates."

You don't take it easy on them because dodgeball teaches that sometimes life hits you in the face, and you have to soldier on.

Sometimes the Patriots quarterback might even hit you in the face with a dodgeball.