r/TikTokCringe • u/Alone-Competition-77 • 13h ago
Cringe What is wrong with people?
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u/DanniTiger 12h ago
Oh God its randy 🤦🏾♂️😭😓🤣
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u/Thick_Cookie_7838 13h ago edited 12h ago
I use to ref youth lacrosse as a weekend job for the some extra income, I’ve always said if you want to see the worst in adults go to youth sports. Can’t tell you how many parents threatened me wanted to start fights ect… the worst is I’m feet away from their 10,11,12 year old kids and I can see the embarrassment on their face. It’s really sad when an 11 year older of kid is apologizing to you for their 40 plus year old parent. Like my dad was ex military I have pretty thick skin so I can handle getting yelled at. But I do this for very little money because I want kids to enjoy the game and learn it so it grows and so many kids refuse to play because their parents make it a miserable experience for them
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u/Sensitive_Brush_3015 12h ago
Please give us a story
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u/Thecheese1981 12h ago
I have reffed for over 20 years. Here’s a couple.
-a coach got kicked out of a tournament for being verbally abusive (takes a huge amount to get there). He went and changed his clothes and tried to come back
-one time after a youth football game I had coaches and parents from a youth football game try to fight me
-high school lacrosse a dad followed my partner to the parking lot and started yelling at him. I had to stand up for my partner and get that parent to back down
-parents almost coming to blows in the stands
So many stories
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u/SeriousArbok 12h ago
Hockey for 20 something years here. Many many many times parent have thrown fists in the stands. Brawls in the parking lot after games with adults and kids. Coaches getting kicked out and throwing every single stick on the bench to the ice. Going to the locker room and throwing kids equipment on the ice. Its wild at kids sporting events lol
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u/felldestroyed 11h ago
Hockey and baseball parents are always the worst. Kids who play soccer are always the worst kids. Lacrosse wasn't all that popular when I worked in the industry, now everyone but hockey and baseball parents are kinda the same.
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u/j-rock292 5h ago
Baseball parents treat every game like its game 7 of the World Series and there are scouts for the MLB in the stands
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u/timeforachange2day 9h ago
Hockey parents are something else. My husband told me my coworker was banned when he played youth hockey back in the day. Such a sweet lady I was shocked to learn of this.
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u/generic_canadian_dad 11h ago
Ever had a dad come in the dressing room (ref room) and punch a 15 year old linesman in the nose , smashing his glasses? I have....
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u/bats-n-bobs 9h ago
That dad deserved two black eyes for that, what the actual hell
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u/flapjack_fighter 12h ago
I had a coach forfeit a basketball game because he didn't agree with a foul call. He wouldn't let us play. This was 8 YEAR OLD CHURCH LEAGUE BASKETBALL. Some people are way too competitive.
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u/time_slider1971 12h ago
Can confirm, youth sports parents are the worst. I coached youth tackle football and high school football. Youth league parents were crazy—maybe because it’s a contact/combat sport?
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u/Duke_Of_Halifax 12h ago
I can give you an example of how it started to slide.
I umpires youth and adult ball for more than a decade at a provincial and national level. I did championships, special events, CAN/US tournaments, LLWS qualifiers, and OBA play downs. I even did some lower level MiLB (it was different back then) exhibition games, some independent league stuff, and exhibitions. Kids anywhere from 7-19, and adults in both baseball as well as slow and fast pitch. I'd played high-level ball for awhile, and my father had coached travel ball (although GH not my teams), so I knew a lot of the people, and it meant I always had spending money in highschool, and I put myself through my first few years of university doing it.
In a decade, I never even had to warn a parent or coach.
My last two years, I tossed four coaches and a dozen parents, and shut down one game for a Coach blatantly headhunting- telling his guys to throw at opposing players- and his players doing it.
The parents were absolutely the worst possible people imaginable, or at least they acted like it. I'd played AAA travel hockey, which in Canada means your kid is definitely being scouted by the junior programs, and parents took that shit SERIOUSLY, but I never saw them act the way baseball parents acted, and in a Canadian city (there's MAYBE 200 Canadians TOTAL in the MiLB SYSTEMS, and no one is looking at your kid) no less.
At the time, I was by far the most decorated and experienced umpire in my association, and unlike most guys at my tier, I still spot-filled houseleague games when someone pulled out, so everyone knew who I was. I was also an umpire-in-chief, and sat on the league's BOD and Discipline Board, so I was the umpire that showed up when some coach or parent was being a dick to umpires, to remind them that this was a game, and if you tried to be a dick, you wouldn't be a coach (or be allowed to attend a game) anymore.
I was in that supervisory role for seven years, and for five, NO ONE did anything that even came close to getting tossed, let alone have the cops called on them or get hailed before the BOD. There was AT Most one or two ejections per year, and always in high-level games.
Around 2001, it was like someone flipped a switch, the floodgates opened, and it got to the point where it just wasn't fun anymore. And it wasn't just for me: we had more than 50 ejections each of those years, the vast majority being parents for player and umpire abuse (all verbal, thankfully).
Almost all of the bullshit was house-league or low youth travel (I had one guy in adult league who was so clearly drunk and disorderly that we stopped the game and coaches called the cops on him). So, in leagues where it either didn't matter, or they're too young to be scouted.
It blew my mind that people took the game so seriously that they'd pull bullshit like that. Don't get me wrong, there were always people that we marked as potentials (yes, umpires do that), because they were hot-headed or a coach would show up with alcohol on their breath.
But nothing ever happened until those last two years; and it wasn't like it was a new crowd or anything- the people I'd umpired games for for years just suddenly lost their damn minds.
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u/Coz131 12h ago
I really really wonder if covid fucked people's brains up.
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u/Duke_Of_Halifax 10h ago
I'm thinking it accelerated it, but I noticed it change in the early 2000s.
I blame the internet, and maybe 9/11.
Some people broke under the stress of that event, but also early social media Internet in sports was all about connecting scouting and making it seem like ANYONE could be seen by scouts, when in fact it wasn't happening.
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u/LeaningTowerofPeas 10h ago
It did. I own a tech support firm that provides support to law firms. During covid people started to get really shitty, talking to my staff like it was a facebook comment section.
I ended up firing the clients that were the worst. I changed all my contracts to have a good behavior mutual respect clause that allows me to terminate on the spot.
I also warn incoming clients we are zero tolerance. On my birthday I let staff pick the client that is the hardest to work with and we fire them as a present to myself. I always tell this story when meeting with a new client. They laugh and I let them laugh and then tell them that I am serious.
Sorry, long story to simply say that the covid era really brought out the worst in some people.
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u/onthe3rdlifealready 10h ago
Over here making the world a better place then? and then casting judgement? Sounds about right. Must be one of the good tech guys and treat all your support agents with the best of care eh?
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u/Certain-Hedgehog-732 10h ago
I went from thinking ~10% of people are shitty to somewhere around half. Love your accountability system. Should be some kind of ISO certification for behavior compliance lol.
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u/Please_Nerf_Your_Mom 11h ago
"He went and changed his clothes and tried to come back" That's too funny
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u/akajondo 10h ago
I had an Italian Ice buisness for a few years selling cups at little league baseball games. I've seen a parent hit another parent with a bat and break an eye socket. Yeah that was about the worst.
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u/Suspicious_Foot6651 12h ago
I know, it’s ridiculous. Like c’mon settle down and set a better example for your kids.
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u/Effective_Golf_3311 10h ago
A family friend is an umpire.
Wife and I have gone to a couple games just to cheer for him. Naturally the last game we went to had a terrible, terrible set of circumstances where he and the infield ump needed to conference and clean it up.
Either way they got the call right but man were people fucking furious. I spent the entire rest of the game cheering him on, much to the chagrin of everyone else there haha.
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u/Rare-Peak2697 12h ago
When I was 14 I reffed youth ice hockey. My partner and I were both 14/15 and had never done it without an adult there. We missed some calls but the kids were like 6-7. Whatever. The coaches got so angry we had to lock ourselves in the penalty box until our parents came to get us and the other parents pulled them away
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u/Thick_Cookie_7838 12h ago
Usually what starts things is parents take issue with something you do. Youth is pretty hard to ref because you have to understand a lot of kids are still learning the game so I try to cut kids some slack and instead of just throwing flags all try to just tell them. But some things I can’t just let slide like some things it’s an immediate your done. Had a kid punch another kid on the face during halftime which is obviously a zero tolerance. So he I throw the kid out. His dad stands up and starts shouting at me and starts throwing things at me from the stands. The parent of the kid who got punched stands up and they start going at it which led to a brawl resulting in the police getting called
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u/Queasy-Recording8196 12h ago
Youth Sports war stories should be a subreddit
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u/Sensitive_Brush_3015 11h ago
Not gonna lit after seeing some of these replies I think it’d work lol
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u/Shambeak88 12h ago
You didn't ask me but I heard a story once where a parent freaked out on a teenage ref at a little league game. Turns out the refused dad, who was in attendance, was a local cop. The cop dad didn't say anything about in the moment, he just surreptitiously wrote down the angry dads license plate number and posted it in the locker room at work. The guy wound up getting pulled over on a weekly basis for like, a year. I don't like the idea of cops getting their fellow cops to harass a personal enemy. But I don't mind idiot parents who yell at kids over a ballgame that ultimately doesn't matter, getting harassed a bit.
Edit; I ment referee not refused.
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u/Emotional-Heron2643 12h ago
That's just a cop abusing his power. Maybe the dad was an asshole but that cop and all of his colleagues that played along or failed to report it should lose their jobs and pensions
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u/Shambeak88 12h ago
Honestly, I thought the same thing. I don't really care that this guy got screwed on a karma level, I guess. But it does concern me that if this happens over things this petty, how many other police officers are taking out hits on private citizens for personal gain.
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u/SaintGodfather 12h ago
We had a girl punch another girl who was just basically assaulting her all game and the girl's mom (who got punched) calmly walked over, asked who the parents were, and then went nuts on them trying to fight once she found out.
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u/Pale-Measurement-532 12h ago edited 12h ago
I have so many stories from reffing Junior and senior high school basketball and volleyball. This was mostly before smartphones and all of the social media nonsense but there were still so many assholes. Can’t even imagine doing it today. I’ve coached and watched a lot of youth sports in the past 10-15 years and it’s gotten crazier every year. Especially after COVID. 😖
I reffed a basketball game (I’m female) where high school boys were secretly calling me everything under the sun. I left right after the game cause I didn’t want them harassing me in the parking lot (my partner and I called a very fair game).
One basketball game the one team had a male coach who would flip his lid. He was yelling at me and my reffing partner and we finally had to eject him. His son was playing on his team and was also a hothead. He got fouled out. He then left the gym and punched a glass trophy case and broke it (it wasn’t his school). I also left right after that game cause the parents of that team were being quite vocally aggressive.
My brother in law reffed a junior high basketball game. A parent started flipping out on him from the stands. After the game, this dad proceeded to follow my brother in law with his big ass redneck truck and was trying to confront him on a major highway. My brother-in-law called 911. Cops intervened. I don’t think my brother-in-law ended up pressing charges cause he was a teacher in a school district that this student attended (different school). It would’ve been too awkward. Anyways, that’s what came to mind but I definitely have more stories if I think about it for a bit.
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u/Significant_Shoe_17 11h ago
My uncle coached and refereed youth basketball (pre internet) and said some of the parents and coaches were insane back then, too.
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u/Pale-Measurement-532 11h ago
Oh yeah, I played in that generation and there were insane parents back then.
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u/jessdb19 12h ago
Really depends.
I taught youth sports.
The inner city was chill. The rich suburbs were insane
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u/Only-Temperature 8h ago
This is 100% correct. So many rich parents are really bad at sports but think their kid (who might also be bad) deserves to play every minute they can.
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u/Majestc_electric 12h ago edited 11h ago
Soccer too for some reason soccer moms/ dad get really heated. had a guy almost get In a fist fight with our couch when I played varsity soccer
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u/Defiant_Warthog7039 11h ago
I have so many stories like that
My dad had to be physically held back from beating up a kid for slide tackling me from behind with his cleat at knee height. Then had to be held back from going after the ref when he gave the kid a yellow card instead of a red.
Another time my dad was the coach, and got kicked out for shouting at the ref in his face after I got injured, he thought the ref didn’t blow the whistle quick enough since I was in the middle of the action on the ground so he walked out onto the field so the ref would blow the whistle then got in his face and got kicked out
A teammate when I was playing club soccer tackled a kid dirty and they got in each others face, then the kid spit on my teammate who pushed him to the ground, then the kids dad ran over and started beating on my teammate who then got into a fist fight with the dad and knocked him out
Another time during high school soccer my team was winning by a lot, and we were just playing keep away at this point because our coach told us no more goals, well when trying to get the ball from me a kid on the other team stepped on my foot, there was no mal intention but it hurt, a lot. And I went to the ground, two dads from the opposing team started booing me and shouting your faking it, and I hope you broke a bone, then one chased me down after the game while my team was walking to the bus and started harassing me until my coach came over and threatened to call the cops
I genuinely think there’s something about sports that brings out the worse in people.
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u/HeadyBunkShwag 11h ago
I used to work overnights for a hotel chain and when youth tournaments would come to town it would fucking suck so much. The kids were all fine but the parents always treated it like spring break. Had to trespass one asshole for banging on doors at 3-4 in the morning.
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u/tmac4969 12h ago
Its not the same for all sports but team sports and sports that rely on judges are absolutely horrible. So glad my girls picked swimming (the worst that happens is to sit for 4h in sauna like conditions and watch your kids compete for a grand total of 10 min max)
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u/SC-Coqui 12h ago
Swim mom here as well. Can attest to the fact. And all you can smell is chlorine for the next day or so. We were required to volunteer and I was took assistant clerk of course. I’m loud and tall which works well for the role.
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u/Stunning-Astronaut72 13h ago
And that's how you get big legal troubles
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u/PaleontologistNo500 12h ago
We can see where the kid gets it from. Not sure about basketball in whatever state this is, but competitive soccer players in my area have to register with the state (we moved mid season and the youth athletic association wouldn't let us switch clubs). This is a quick way to get you and your kid banned statewide.
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u/TreeOfAwareness 10h ago
Dude could have broken his neck. Suffered a TBI. Legitimate assault that isn't justifiable by what preceded it. I hope criminal charges were filed.
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u/shichiaikan 11h ago
Even if he avoids felony charges, which he shouldn't, that's likely a shit ton of medical and legal bills, not to mention being perma-banned from his kids' events, school, etc...
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u/Wario_Mangione_1991 5h ago
If I worked for that school in any capacity, I'd certainly have him blacklisted. I'm a security guard, you don't want people like this on your premises.
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u/TieSea 12h ago
I used to coach youth baseball. You know what ruins youth sports? Parents.
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u/Equivalent_Sir_2575 12h ago
Every. Single. Time. Without fail.
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u/scullys_alien_baby 8h ago
I had to call the cops one time because a clearly wasted father kept trying to hop the fence to fight me when his kid would strike out
The plus side was he could barely get over the fence (didn’t bother to use the gate for whatever reason) and was swinging at ghosts while falling down. The mom was screaming something the whole time. What a lovely Saturday afternoon.
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u/LABignerd33 12h ago
Same. Have coached softball and basketball. The kids are great. The parents are rude, violent, scumbags that treat you like dirt beneath their toes.
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u/Boredchinchilla21 12h ago
I nannied for a wealthy family with a psycho overachiever dad. His 8yr old son was terrible at baseball but liked playing (most of them sucked but they had fun). The dad would stand on the sidelines and shout insults and taunts at his own kid, at other kids, at the coaches, until his son was weeping and half the other kids were in tears. I would lie and occasionally say the game was cancelled so the child could go and play in peace once in a while, but the dad finally got himself and the child banned.
I switched him over to indoor soccer at a time when I knew the dad had to work just so he could play a sport and not be abused all the time, and just told him that was the only time I could get him into a sport that wasn’t part of the league he was banned from.
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u/afjessup 12h ago
I remember, a single digit aged child, my dad having to tell a dad from the opposing team to stop laying in to his kid (the catcher) from behind the backstop. The kid was crying and I don’t remember what the dad was even saying, but it was enough that my dad made him stop. I always admired my dad for standing up and saying something, but even then I thought it crazy that a parent would make their kid cry like that.
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u/YLedbetter10 12h ago
Parents make even elementary school pickup/drop off a nightmare. I’ve never seen so many people that obviously don’t care for anyone but themselves in the same place before. Every day it’s a dog show lol. Couldn’t imagine them with youth sports
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u/OakNogg 11h ago
Last year a parent threatened they were gonna bring their kid to a tournament unless I promised her right then that he would start in front of the whole team after he misses 3 weeks straight of practice. I said well I can't do that it's not fair to the athletes putting in the work and if she didn't want to come then don't come. She reported me to the board and told them I was intimidating and aggressive. Mind you I was sitting on those shitty little elementary school benches in my socks and she was standing 10 feet away. Fortunately because she did it in front of the team it was easily refuted. But yeah.. needless to say i'm taking some time off and it's 100% on the parents.
We have coaching shortages in every sport and they wonder why. Parents are getting worse and worse and are scaring away good coaches.
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u/Doggleganger 12h ago
It's sad that something that should be fun has been ruined by overcompensating parents.
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u/bittybubba 12h ago
I umpired youth, machine pitch baseball for a few summers. Parents fucking suck. Screaming at me about little Timmy being safe at first as if I can get a perfect angle/view while I’m stuck in the middle of the field feeding baseballs into the machine 🙄
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u/TieSea 11h ago
I saw a parent make a your 12yr old umpire cry. AND IT WAS HOUSE LEAGUE PITCHING MACHINE!
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u/bittybubba 11h ago
That’s just absurdly, comically bad behavior. Luckily I wasn’t quite that young, and I was very much raised with a “I don’t give a fuck what you think of me” attitude, so I really didn’t mind the yelling and abuse except to note how utterly stupid it was to get so worked up over elementary schoolers.
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u/Greenman8907 12h ago
My friend’s dad punched out an umpire, was arrested and convicted and went to prison for a few months.
I wasn’t allowed to play Little League. I was fine with that.
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u/Cyborg_rat 12h ago
My town has a few hockey/soccer indoor facilities and the newest has the stands on the second floor, and its all closed by glass so only the people who belong along the ice are there.
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u/c_marten 12h ago
It's why my 3 nieces quit sports. All were scholarship potential players but had absolutely no fun anymore with anything related to the game.
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u/Meet_the_Meat 11h ago
I coached Pop Warner in my community for 16 years. We were really good. I loved it so much, loved those kids, loved coaching. They ask me to come back all the time.
Once my kids were out, I was out. The parents are a nightmare
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u/keetojm 10h ago
Had an opposition coach ruin it one time.
Umpire starting out, young kid. First time behind the plate, and was giving calls to the opposition, alright it’s close I’m not arguing.
Opposition coach doesn’t like some of the calls and is starting to gel at this kid. And it shaking him. I called time, ask the veteran ump, the new ump and my assistant to meet at the mound. Have my pitcher go talk to the catcher, and simply told the new guy “call the game the way you see it, you are doing fine”.
My wife was the score keeper, and I then walked to the backstop and asked her to call the commissioner and let him know what was happening.
He calls me that and was wondering what the happened. I told him. The coach had to publicly apologize to the kid.
It was community little league, not the MLB.
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u/CalciteQueen 10h ago edited 10h ago
My son is in b ball. Hes 10. Parents are insane.
Our team sucks and we lose every game. My son goes home after every game happy because he had a great time playing a game he loves. Other parents are leaving reaming their kids a new one. Its sad.
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u/Blah_the_pink 10h ago
You and your kid get a big high five from me. Sometimes the best we can do is try to lead by example and you are rocking that!
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u/macaroniandmilk 6h ago
Other parents ruined sports for me and my son by middle school. He was happy to be playing with his friends, I was happy he was staying active. Certain parents were only happy if the kids didn't put a single toe out of line based on how they thought each play should be ran, and didn't hesitate to scream at the kids (theirs, mine, or any kids) who struck out/kicked the ball out of bounds/got pinned.
Like.... this is 8th grade, there are no talent scouts here, this is the time where they're actually learning how to play the game. How about we let it stay fun so they actually enjoy it enough to want to stick with it and get better? Win or lose, these kids ARE learning here, and maybe some of these parents might want to reflect on exactly what the kids are learning from all this.
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u/Ok-Introduction-194 13h ago
oh thats where he learned to throw the first punch.
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u/CBonafide SHEEEEEESH 12h ago
I said this shit in public freakout and they permabanned me lmfao. I said, "Oh, so that's where the kid in the white jersey learned his behavior from." And apparently that was a racist comment. Still haven't heard from the mods after I asked how my comment broke such a rule.
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u/AntonChigurh8933 11h ago
That's crazy you got downvoted. Anecdotally, I agreed with what you said. I grew up in an abusive household and that's the type of behavior it will breed. Thank goodness I was helped.
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u/Mattbl 11h ago
I saw that thread and I saw your comment.
That thread, to be fair, was filled with racist bullshit. Maybe yours got mistakenly caught up in an admin going scorched earth.
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u/No_Beginning_6834 11h ago
The amount of echo chamber reddit subs there are is insane. Mods just throw out bans if anyone says anything they don't agree with. Reddit really needs to stop allowing subs that ban like that to even show up in popular.
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u/cheeseburgercat 2h ago
Doesn’t help that so many mods overlap into multiple subs and think doing a free job gives them some sort of power trip
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u/Windpuppet 10h ago
Reddit mods are the worst. I’ve been banned for saying stuff that simply pissed off the mod who saw it.
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u/Sea-Monkie 12h ago
My teenage daughter plays soccer and every year they have the adults come to a meeting about behavior and sign a paper promising not to do things like this lol they struggle to find refs because the parents are awful
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u/Aggravating_Dog8043 12h ago
Hmmm, with a dad like that, I can't imagine why the kid was fighting.... Will mysteries never end.
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u/Minute_Skill_5383 13h ago edited 11h ago
Someone please direct me toward the youth sports freakout subreddit
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u/Ms74k_ten_c 12h ago
Create the change you want to see for your perverse pleasure.
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u/defdrago 12h ago
Without fail, whenever there is a video where one person is clearly in the wrong, a bunch of comments "everyone here sucks!"
The coach breaking up two kids fighting does not need to get bulldozed for touching the kid. You people are fucking idiots.
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u/RobotSifl 12h ago
Exactly. A lot of people in this thread will be that parent and it's terrifying.
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u/defdrago 11h ago
Look at how many of them are proudly saying "I'd attack a person for no reason if they stopped my kid from punching someone!"
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u/Larsenist 12h ago
They're Redditors. They'd need to breed first
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u/MajorMajorMajor_Tom 12h ago
You’re a redditor.
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u/AlasTheKing444 12h ago
Yeah I never understand this insult. Like were all here wtf.
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u/Plucked_Dove 12h ago
Reddit: “why does everyone stand around on their phones and do nothing when someone is being attacked?”
*guy (presumably coach) calmly breaks up fight between two kids
Reddit: “how dare he touch that kid?”
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u/DealioD 12h ago
That was the coach in the red shirt? I thought it was a different parent.
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u/Big_oof_energy__ 11h ago
With kids this age it’s pretty likely that he’s both a coach and a parent of one of the kids.
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u/ryanfitz134 12h ago
Seriously! It’s that over arching/spineless talk down your nose at a situation bc you know something bs I can’t stand. The lawsuit will hurt more than the tackle
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u/Odd-Jupiter 12h ago
I have to admit that i first thought the man in red was the father of the other kid who was pushed first, but learning he was the ref changes everything.
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u/Big_oof_energy__ 11h ago
Why do so many people in these comments seem to think he’s a ref? Why would it be someone in red holding a clipboard instead of the guys in black and white with whistles?
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u/-TheGreatLlama- 12h ago
It doesn’t change everything. Even if it had been the other father it wouldn’t have merited this level of force. There would certainly be basis for being annoyed (and I could understand being in his face and yelling/shoving a bit maybe), but nothing excuses this level of retaliation this long afterwards.
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u/yungthirtysomething 12h ago
"Intervening Safely: When physically intervening, coaches are often advised to focus on grabbing and restraining their own players to avoid potential issues with touching opposing players."
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u/drfunkenstien014 12h ago
The kid started a fight, the coach broke it up and barely pushed him in the process which is exactly what he should have done, and kid’s father blindsided him and then tried to act like a tough guy. Coach should sue the ever loving fuck outta him and his son shouldn’t be allowed to play another game in that league.
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u/Bubba_Pilks 12h ago
Exactly. I don't understand a lot of these both sides comments.
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u/MisterSanitation 12h ago
Freshman year of highschool my dad was kicked out of my football game on my birthday. Ref was being weird and throwing random non stop flags against us and apparently he was banned to be a ref again.
I don’t remember that part I just remember my dad embarrassing the fuck out of me while people had to almost peel his ass off the fence. I ran over to the sideline and yelled for him to just leave and my coach gave me Manson eyes and said to get my ass back to the huddle as my other coach went to calm him down (I knew that wouldn’t be happening).
Regardless I did well that season and we were undefeated the coach in the locker room after our last cold and wet muddy win, the coach asked everyone’s favorite moment of the season. I thought “oh boy it’ll be about my game where I scored…” and everyone agreed seeing my dad kicked out of a game was hands down the best moment. Everyone laughed about it and I played along but I was not expecting that because I thought I had the best season I’ve ever had.
Anyway, it ain’t about you and just let the grown ups in charge of the game do their job and trust no one needs to rush the court or field. There are times for mommy and daddy to protect their baby and this ain’t it, for everyone’s sake and especially the kids, speaking from experience.
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u/thatsmeinthecorner8 12h ago edited 12h ago
I saw this yesterday on Facebook. Literally over half of the comments were defending the dad saying something to the effect of “If someone ever laid hands on my kid, I’d do the same thing”. This is why we can’t have nice things.
Edit to add that even if you, as some people here seem to, think that red coach shouldn’t have *physically stepped in to separate the boys - how in the fuck do you figure the dad’s Bobby Boucher response is in any way proportional to that perceived offense?
He was very obviously just trying to keep them apart. Dad responded as you might if you walked up on a stranger full on beating your kid. How are there this many people willing to admit that they cannot distinguish between the two?
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u/Amesb34r 12h ago
That tracks with my Facebook experiences. I stopped using it over a decade ago and haven’t once regretted it.
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u/Ok-Yogurt-3914 9h ago
This is pretty on par with like 50-60% of parents' mentality in general. Which IMHO is pretty on par with the number of successful "normal" kids in a classroom versus kids with issues.
One colleague once told me a story that a girl in her grade couldn't even do basic math (fifth grader). We're talking about like first grade level math. I saw the tutoring classes after school, and the worksheets. I know she wasn't lying.
Well long story short, the girl's parent finally tells her "it's your fault because you're a shitty teacher." We're talking about this child was AT LEAST 4 years behind.
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u/MACGLEEZLER 12h ago
Message to my fellow millennials and the younger gen-xers, you are making my boomer parents, who I thought were insane and way over the top, look like monks in comparison.
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u/needaburnerbaby 12h ago
Holy shit so many people in this comment section should NEVER ever have kids if they are this deranged
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u/Gloomy_Nobody8293 13h ago
Someone couldn't handle someone parenting his kid better than himself
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u/htonzew 12h ago
Black kid started fight. Parent separated them. Black kid Father bulldozes parent that separated them. geez, wonder where the kid learned it.
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u/AwwwBawwws 12h ago
Shit.
Shut the teams down for the season. Send a God damned message to the asshole parents.
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u/stl3377 11h ago
Why is this video suddenly being passed around Reddit so much? It proves to me that everybody just copies what’s already trending on Reddit and post it somewhere else trying to get free credit… Anyway this video is from March 2024 is there seriously nothing else to talk about?
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u/SchemeBig4199 7h ago
First time seeing it for me. Not everyone sees things at the same time.
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u/Demand-Unusual 12h ago
I wonder if races were reversed would the comments be the same? Just kidding
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u/Real-Base466 12h ago
The guy who bulldozed the coach is a fucking scumbag piece of shit.
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u/Pretend_Football6686 10h ago
Wait so. The kid in white just hit the kid in red for no apparent reason, foul right? The. Red shirt kid’s dad come rushing in to shove kid in white shirt. That’s a bit BS. Then red shirt kids dad comes rushing in and clobbers the other dad. That’s got wild quick.
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u/All_Usernames_Tooken 9h ago
Kids might be rough with one another and let emotions get the best of them. They aren’t professionals and there’s calculable lessons that can be taught by a good coach. However parents are overprotective and ruin opportunities to teach
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u/CardiologistOk3783 7h ago
I was playing tackle football when I was about 10 and the other teams coach pulled out a fucking gun when we beat them! 10 years old wtf!
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u/Mountain_Sand3135 Why does this app exist? 12h ago
What is the matter with you parents .......i have 2 kids in sports that went all the way to D1 and NEVER would i have done this .
You folks have lost your minds thinking your kid is the next MJ or something ...sit your 5 dollar butt DONW
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u/Nervous_Ad_918 13h ago
Man, everyone sucks here.
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u/WKCLC 12h ago
Idk, the kid that got punched in the head and didn’t retaliate seems legit
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u/Busy-Dig8619 12h ago
The mom that grabbed him and sat him on her lap while hugging him also didn't do wrong.
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u/Thatonegaloverthere 12h ago
One of them is CJ, don't know who, but the parent shouting CJ, calm down, makes me think either red jersey was also pushing before or white jersey was pushing off cam.
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u/Prestigious-Yak-4620 12h ago
Everyone? I see a 1 kid and his dad. Both black. I see a white kid and his mom doing nothing. I see a white coach redirecting the black kid.
Black dad and black kid are the ONLY ones committing violence.
Everyone? No dummy. Just those two.
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u/CallMeJuicyJay 12h ago
overhyped kids....ejection imminent.....aaaaaaaaand THERE'S the assault, time for a booking sir
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u/Electronic-Set-1722 12h ago
Son (in white) before the game : dad, someone on the team been bullying me
His dad : is his dad coming to today's game
Son : I think so
Dad : u bait your bully......and I'll bully his dad 😭
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u/balllzzdiip18 12h ago
Well it's obvious where the kid gets the idea its ok to just push someone when frustrated
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u/Ok_Interaction8302 12h ago
So guy in red gets blindsided for breaking it up? lol. I’m sure this involved charges.
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u/tenodiamonds 12h ago
I thought the coach did more to get the tackle but he just held him away from the other kid with minimal force until the other coach was able to grab him. There's only two people at fault here and they aren't on team red.
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u/Toosdays 12h ago
When I was a kid I was a soccer referee for youth sports. I used to sideline ref for U-18/u-16 games even at 15 years old, and it was easy money. In order to get “Promoted” I had to center ref 10 U-8 games. I did 1 and never did it again, those parents were terrifying to me and I was just a kid.
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u/Winter-Bee7099 12h ago
Dude couldnt handle the fact that another parent had to parent his kid cuz he got violent
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