From the past Weekend

From this weekend's game: one of our defenders scored an own goal. Sometime after that my daughter heard one of the opposing team's parents yelling (and then laughing, apparently, at their brilliant wit) for the team "to score one of your own now."

Granted this may seem like a relatively minor CSP crime, particularly given some of the other things reported on this site. However, my daughter was clear that this was not meant in the spirit of sportsmanship.

I never cheer for another team's own goals. These are kids and scoring an own goal sucks. I've done it and it never feels good. Adults should just let own goals go unremarked.

Beat on the Coach

Yes, the coaches sometimes make mistakes. This baseball dad and his baseball-lovin' bro believe in tough love for coaches.

Time Out for Coachy

My daughter's soccer team plays another team that has developed into a quasi-rival over the past 2 seasons. Both teams are good, competitive teams and the games are often very, very close. The coach for the other team, however, is a bit of a jerk. Hey, it happens.
So, the two teams recently met up. During the first half (when it was still scoreless), the coach got upset about the officiating and started barking at the ref. Said official decided he wasn't getting paid enough to listen him and immediately told him to shut his piehole (I'm paraphrasing). The coach didn't and kept barking.

"Go sit down." (the coach had a little sideline chair set up).

"I don't want to sit down."

"Go sit down. I'm not going to listen to you."

"I DON't WANT to sit down." (His tone is sounding more and more like a petulant child)

"If you don't sit down, you're going to spend the rest of the game in the parking lot."

"I DON'T WANT TO SIT DOWN!!" (And then he stomps off to his chair and throws his ass in it ceremoniously.)

The coach spent the rest of the game with his ass parked and it greatly improved the sideline character.
The sad thing is that his team played hard, but the focus wasn't on them - it was on their coach and his antics. Too sad...

Walk Out

This is a good one. After a stream of negative comments about their soccer player kid, these parents walked out of a high school soccer game in disgust.

Fight at Fourth Grade Football Game

The CSPs have been behaving themselves lately, so I'm going to have to ask Yelm, Washington's crazy (American) football parents to fill in. And, oh, are they ready...ready to rumble, that is.

Yesterday's match between perennial titans Yelm Thunderers and the Lacey Bobcats turned sour when words between parents after the game devolved into a decent-sized brawl, 1 dumbass arrested, 1 parent to the hospital and several others likely to be cited at a later date, once the prosecutors sort out the run-of-the-mill idiots from the lawbreakers.

Chuck Farrar, president of the league, said there were two to four
instigators “who took a game of second- through fourth-graders way too
seriously.”

Maurice Hooper, coach of the Bobcats, said he didn’t see how the
fight started, but that “there was a lot of stuff said on both sides.”

“We’re grown-ups, and it’s about the kids,” he said.

Apparently, a few parents don't share that view...

Bad Grandparents

Not too much to report in Crazy Soccer Parent doings lately, so I'll treat readers with this story from China about grandparents who desperately wanted a boy. No word on whether they're soccer fans or not.

Filler

I'm so disappointed. I went to a tournament last weekend and the parents (at least the ones I was near) all behaved themselves.

So, to fill in the gaps, Here are a few items from the National Assocation for Youth Sports.
Coaches Brawl at PONY League Baseball Game

Children Cry While Coach Choked

One coach was accused of purposely knocking down a ball that had gone past an infielder.

The team’s coaches were arguing the play when an assistant coach
from the fielding team attempted to separate the two. The assistant
coach apparently bumped shoulders with the opposing coach and uttered
an obscenity; to which that coach responded by spitting gum in his
face.

The assistant coach reacted immediately and began strangling the coach who had spit.

Witnesses confirmed that many of the children were crying while witnessing the violent display.

Gosh. Thanks for filling in while the soccer parents were behaving themselves, fellas.