[snrmike]

This isn't the NFL, this is youth football.

Are you saying that it's OK for the coaches to push, shove and threaten lives? You may argue that it was "in the heat of the moment", the cold fact is that this is all too frequent with the team in question.

The article quoted a league source as saying that this was the first incidence of violence perpetrated on an official, when I disctinctly remember a coach being so irate at an official that he actually ran an official over WITH HIS CAR in the field parking lot. The official involved in the incident immediately filed chagres with the Crestwood, IL police dept. I guess memories are very short indeed!

There were several instances in which one of the teams had a team announcer threaten officials over the park's PA system. In some of those cases, the officials had to be escorted by police off the field to their vehicles. The team was reprimanded - slap on the wrist.

Once again Mike, you have no idea what you are talking about with regard to this league. I find it apalling that an official would take the side of the abusive, egotistical and self-centered "coaches" in this case. You start by saying that you have the kids' welfare as your main concern.

Well, my friend, this isn't about the kids, it's about adults who have completely lost sight of the objective and that's what we're protesting. Sadly, it's about some absolutely warped parents imposing their corrupt sense of values on the innocents of the area.

What are they teaching these kids? That it's OK to assualt somebody simply because you disagree with them? That it's OK to dispense Lasix to 10-year-olds so that they can make weight - even though they might suffer permanent kidney damage?

Get over yourself dude. The video tape, along with audio raised enough questions for this incident to become the lead story on the 10 o'clock news on the ABC and NBC owned stations here in Chicago this past Sunday.

Inconclusive? Hardly.

This isn't an NFL "game". These are our children's lives.