Worst Sports Parents?

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by Adam

The younger the kids, the worse the parents. Just like players learn to play, parents learn to behave at about the same pace.

Unfortunately that may be a function not so much of learning to behave, but how much they care. The more they care, the more of them will be there, and, there being a fixed percentage of bad sports in any crowd, the more bad sports will be in attendance. As the kids age, the parents stop turning out. When they get up to a certain age, the crowds may increase from people who care more about the game than they do about the players, which probably diminishes the fraction of bad sports.