Poor spectator behavior in HS sports: yahoo article

[Nevadaref]

Is anyone out there noticing instances of what this article details?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fans-retu...143702988.html

[BryanV21]

Thankfully I haven't had to deal with anything like this.

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[crosscountry55]

Not directly, though by habit I tune out crowd noise, so I’m not blind to the fact that it happens, maybe even in my games. I saw an article just the other day that mentioned how our state association is concerned about an uptick in this stuff.

“The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League later banned students at Armstrong High School from attending any varsity hockey games for the rest of the season, and now requires the school to assign an administrator or faculty member to attend each home and away game to monitor fans for inappropriate behavior.”

Supervision and adult presence. Gee, what a concept! Also, these days there’s video of almost every game out there. How about having some of those cameras trained on spectators, while we’re at it.


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[BillyMac]

N words at a football game this season directed from home spectators of a mostly white suburban Catholic school at visiting black cheerleaders from an urban school. Offenders couldn't be identified after an investigation.

Basketball game two seasons ago (not mine). Fans were more subtle. Spectators of a mostly white suburban (rich town) school (who were getting beaten at home) yelled "SAT" at visitors from a mostly black urban school. Stupid fans, visitors were from a highly respected magnet school with a history of getting almost all graduates into college.

Unfortunately, this is only the tip of the iceberg. If this is what we're seeing in scholastic sports, then it must be going on elsewhere. The kids have to learn racism from somebody (parents, social media, etc.), they're not born racists.

[BryanV21]

The adults are the bigger problem. They're either teaching this crap or not doing anything to stop it.

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[jmwking]

https://www.chron.com/opinion/articl...e-16680409.php

It's just awful out there. We're going to hell in a handbasket.

They've been sucker-punched, stalked and threatened. On weekends, mobs of adults shriek and bellow at them, questioning their eyesight, intelligence and humanity.

One veteran described "a cauldron of yelling and hysteria." For all the abuse, referees working D.C.-area youth sports net about $50 a game, job listings show. No wonder they're fleeing.

Nearly half of the referees who officiate in my son's hockey league are gone and games are being canceled every weekend. His team has been able to play just two of this season's five scheduled games so far. This is happening across the nation in all youth sports. The Friday night lights of high school football games are now Thursdays and Saturdays, too - to spread the refs out. Instead of the usual three refs on a soccer pitch, some leagues are making due with two, or even one.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by jmwking

It's just awful out there. We're going to hell in a handbasket.

Had two of our guys verbally accosted in a high school parking lot after an ordinary unremarkable game. School was contacted, and a police report was filed.

Officials should always leave the game site together. Even in this day in age of fuel injected, computer controlled, reliable cars, when everyone has a cell phone, and many have some type of roadside assistance, it’s not fun sitting in a cold car, in a lonely parking lot, with a dead battery, or a flat tire, waiting for help to arrive.