Nothing shocks me anymore. I do not remember parents acting like this when I was in sports as a kid. I had two games this year where the kids freaked at their parents. One started crying and the other let out a profane stream to let her dad know it was time to shut his yap (her situation was one of those funny, but not funny things. Her shoe came off and she got beat at the top of the key, and the girl drove in for a lay-up, and got hacked. While my partner was reporting the foul she walked over by me to pick up her shoe and put it back on. Her dad was in the front row, stands up, walks to the sideline and yells 'How could you let her beat you off the dribble like that? Get your head in the game'. I could not believe this putz was yelling about the play when she lost her shoe. If it was me, I would have set up a play with my teammate where I would "no-look" one at about 90 MPH missing said teammate into the front row.
But seriously, I said it on another thread, and still wish more places would have "silent saturday". Maybe if we left all the parents out, taped the games, and sold them back to the parents, they might realize what idiots some of them really they are. Some parents are well behaved and I hate to "punish" the innocent, but in some places the parents are just plain dangerous. I think we need this more at the summer aau and rec level where the crowd control is meager at best.
[This message has been edited by Brian Watson (edited May 05, 2000).]
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Fri May 05, 2000, 10:41am
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