Insane Parent Faces the Consequences After Assaulting Referee 

The son fights dirty... the father fights dirty... what a surprise.

Some men are just too emotional to be in public spaces. This terrible father is a perfect example.

Q. What's wrong with youth sports? A. Adults.

Dear parents...ur kid aint special. And neither are you.

fake tough guy pushing some one from behind.

Now you have a felony AND your child is kicked out of the sport, GOOD JOB!!!

The coward ran outa the state!?!?! What a prime example to set for your kid...talk about not owning up to your actions.

This is what happens when failures are allowed to have kids and then pin their vicarious dreams on their child's sporting career.

The kid was attempting to injure his opponent. Kids learn that at home.

To assault someone in a environment with a high percentage of wrestlers is proof of a complete lack of intelligence and capability for risk assessment.

Typical school yard bully. Now a bigger bully. I can’t call him an adult because he has not grown up yet. He is not going to stop. He’s just going to keep ruining his kids life. Very sad.

The poor kid of this jerk father, I hate to think what that boy goes through at home.

The kid was doing a bush league move, twisting his opponent's leg, when his dad came out and showed us clearly where he gets it from.

The Hammond kid should be kicked off the team permanently. He was cheating and his father was enabling his cheating...

If this so called father acts like this in public imagine what he’s capable of in private. His kid and other family members are the ones we should be worried about.

Let me guess…. The father is a trump supporter…. Our country is fucked!!!

Long time PA official here. I would have made the EXACT same call! Potentially dangerous. No penalty, no harm....just stopping a potential danger. Parents should be barred forever.

You assault a ref or a coach you should be arrested period

Such a tough guy. Sneaks up from behind like a coward.

The absurdity of getting THAT uptight over ANY sports match. It’s JUST a sport. I guarantee he’s a bully to his son too.

Parents need to stop living their sports fantasy through their children.

"Testosterone, the most dangerous substance known to man" - George Carlin. It is always some over-hyped beefcake father indulging in such unsporting behaviour.

How could you do this to your child? The embarrassment you are causing him is astounding. Made it all about you.

Parents like that should be banned from attending any future matches for their child for the remainder of their time at the school/college

Mr Hammond looks like he's probably been a bully his entire life

Props to ref. Knee injuries can last a lifetime.

People hitting from behind are COWARDS

I quit referring youth football because of this. There are too many conservatives who are poor losers.

Sporting associations need to include a code of conduct for players, officials, and supporters that have zero tolerance for breaching them and immediate penalties such as interference with umpires/referees resulting in the associated player/team forfeiting the game. In Australia when it was highlighted that the supporters (players family and friends) were the biggest problem penalties for supporter misconduct increased to include the player or team forfeiting the match due to the supporters behaviour. After many games were forfeited due to supporter behaviour teams started reigning in their supporters behaviours and this is what stopped us loosing umpires due to abusive behaviour. Sporting governing bodies need to act by creating and enforcing codes of conduct.

I wonder where his son picked up the idea that illegal wresting moves are okay? Oh wait ..... nm

The kid thought it was okay to cheat, wonder where he learned that....

Loser dads wanting a second chance in the Pros, via their kids.

"Potentially dangerous hold" is a VERY common call in wrestling. It protects wrestlers from serious injury

Parents without respect for society are " bringing up" the next generation: it's a me,me,me and maybe my family attitude that is entirely destructive.

I've taught PE in NYC for 28 years. I instruct at a Judo school in my spare time. I don't see this level of disrespect in Judo, but the rabid attitude of Americans and popular sports is insane. I suppose you can blame money. Sports are meant to be for recreation. Sports are meant to improve health. Sports are meant to provide a path to confidence and to build character. These are the wholesome rewards. As soon as it becomes a path to money, it's tainted to some degree.

After 27 years of coaching two high school sports, I began officiating lacrosse four years ago. I quit after the season a few weeks ago. The abuse by coaches, parents, and players isn't worth it.

Who do these parents think they are, these parents who can't stand to see their precious ones get corrected.

As these types of incidents grow, the number of people who will volunteer to be abused or assaulted by out of control members of the public will decline. The same is true in other areas, such as in health care, retail and school teachers. It's almost as if the sense of entitlement is a learned behaviour pattern. I'm trying to think of another influential public figure who believes they are always right, never takes responsibility for their actions, and considers that cheating to win, say in a golf game, is acceptable...

Canadian hockey parents have to sign agreements not to be a douche to the refs or they get kicked out

Let's play "How Does Joshua Hammond Vote?" I'll go first. Republican.

Lemme guess, maga parents who think the game is "rigged... it's a rigged system!"

Hope they disqualified the child too. Thats the only way these parents will learn. They are pathetic, living vicariously through their children. Hate to punish the kid for his terrible parent but enough is enough, they BOTH need to learn how the fathers behavior is unacceptable.

I wonder if parents would back off if interfering/assaulting officials/others would result in their childen being suspended from sports activities? seems sportsmanship need to be learned by parents as well as their children!

Even if ref or ump makes a wrong call , these parents have NO right to attack these people !

How many times do we have to see grown men breaking the law, because they are angry with accountability

We have this in kids football in 🇬🇧. It’s called ‘competitive dad syndrome’, and it’s usually the parents that weren’t any good themselves 😂

A huge part of the problem lies in the lack of respect given to referees/ umpires from players on the field. Take rugby as an example of how it should work, following every decision, only the captains of each team are allowed to ever speak to the ref, and no-one is allowed to talk back unless asked a question. If the person officiating a game screws up, they can be taken to task by their employers, league and/ or union AFTER the game. Mistakes will happen, 99% of refs don't have the advantage of instant-replay or eyes in the back of their head. Too many parents desperately trying to live vicariously through their children. Pathetic.

My wife and I quit reffing soccer games over insane parents like this. The kids are great, it's the so-called adults that sucked.

Endangerment of a minor as well. He pushed the ref into the kid.

Cowards always approach from behind.

The actions of the father explains why the son was making illegal moves to "win!"

When my daughter was 13-14, she was a ref for girl’s soccer. I usually came with her. At a game where it started to rain,she let them play on. But when the lightning came followed by thunder, she called the game. Two fsthers came to her to argue her out of it. (This field was surrounded by huge trees). They even called her stupid and that she was a terrible ref. I walked over and just asked what was going on. The men immediately backed down from their high horse. In the car on the way home, she cried and at home, quit reffing right then.

If he does that in public, imagine what his wife and kids go through in private.

i stopped coaching due to violent vitriolic parents. haven’t looked back.

They should not have games with fewer officials. They should cancel games and send out an email to all parents that the game was cancelled because of parent behavior.

This dude should be banned from all his son's sporting events in the future. He was clearly released from prison too soon.

In a country that is entirely me-me-me-me, money-driven, full of drugs, narcissism, guns and rage, this is going to be a typical outcome.

Absolutely disgusting behavior. I also really worry about the kids of these crazy people. What is their home life like? Probably hell.

What's so sad is when this boy needs his father to stay in control, the father acts like a 3rd grader. Hope they ban him from going to any school supported functions. What a drip.

The father physically assaulted the ref. The mother verbally assaults the ref. No wonder the kid fights dirty. Great parenting guys!😔

I played football and I wrestled. I would never forgive my dad if he had done this.

The kid and parent should no longer be permitted to join in reindeer games any more.

These are the "big baby" generationals who can NOT stamd to lose. Hence this nonsense, Jan 6th, you name it.

I love how he tried to act like he was "protecting" his son by telling the ref to get out of his son's face when the video CLEARLY shows that the ref was not in the boy's face; he was simply pointing at the youth because he was not respecting the referee's authority to officiate the match. That is the problem with the country today; fewer people have respect for authority because MAGA doesn't respect anything or anyone and feels that they can simply make rules up as they go and break them whenever it suits them.

Teachers leaving for same reason

I quit umpiring little league baseball after only one season because of parents.

Well, the kid learned dirty moves through somewhere, and obviously, since his dad has dirty moves, we know where he learned it. The dad should never be able to attend another meet, and if the kid pulls another move like that, he should never be allowed to be in again, we don’t need unsportsmanlike people.

It is never okay at any level of competition in any sport to physically assault the ref. Wtf

In all my years of refereeing youth soccer I cannot remember a single bad or problem child but there were many bad parents.

Not only was the parent out of line. And assault. What a horrible example of a human

Mr. Hammond has no emotional intelligence and is a dangerous bully to do what he did. Hella weak

Would be in NC...we might be a pretty balanced state politically but the conservatives in this state are amongst the absolute nuttiest in the country. Its awful, I've watched so many friends and family literally suffering from a mass hysteria event.

A video being explained by a video that is explained by another video. I was waiting for someone else to pause and start explaining again and again and again for infinity.

This guy is 34 YEARS OLD. Look at that mugshot and try to tell me how he is only 34 years old?!?!

Dad’s a bully and I sure hope it doesn’t rub off on his son.

These people are sucking the fun out of games

He fled the state. Now that tells you he knew exactly what he had done. His boy must be so proud. But I wonder where the kid learned to cheat. It was either the dad or the coach.

I feel sorry for his son

This dude after the assault fled the state.. he was hiding in another state.. that alone goes to show you that he has done crimes before and knows where to go to hide

Roid rage??? Should never be allowed to attend a school function or children's sporting event...EVER

Hey schools, how about spending your sports budget on art, music and theater instead.

I feel sorry for the kid who has 💩for parents.

The fact that the dad got more pissed off than his own son is troubling. You can tell that parent was a bully when he was younger. Glad his name and face was shown on the video, he is a meance to society

So basically the child in white was cheating so the referee called it then the dad came over and threw the ref yeah that man should be sued.

He attacked the Ref...you think he doesn't abuse his wife and kid?

the most interesting part is how the report indicates that incidents like this started spiking around 2018. It was around this time that people started to let their baser feral sides come out and decide they are the only one who is right and everyone else is wrong and use of violence and intimidation became more and more commonplace... wonder where they might have been getting that idea...

Surprise daddy-o...the ref is an attorney! 😂 Love it!!!

When I coached Little League, I drafted a ballplayer who's Mom had a bad reputation as an ump-abuser. I asked her to be my official scorekeeper, thinking that giving her a true responsibility for the team would keep her in line. But no, during THE FIRST GAME OF THE SEASON, she harassed and berated the home plate ump so much, and in such vile language, I had to ask her to leave the complex. It was an awful situation and her son was so embarrassed and ashamed of his Mom's actions

There is an easy fix for this--- any team who's parents, coaches, players disrespect refs it results getting an automatic loss for the team ... good luck getting that scholarship son lol

Back in 1995 California CIF put into Law that if you assault a referee it will be a felony physical assault!! Every coach in the state of California had to sign off in order to be allowed to coach ..We all had to sign this to coach in California!!

I learned the hard way. In my early teens, at a "for fun" softball game. I was playing at 2nd base, and the 1st base runner jumped and came down on my leg (breaking it). I found out later that this is a way to take out a player. From then on, I avoided any contact sports, even though I've been highly athletic all my life. I've noticed the increase in hyper competitiveness in almost all sports to the point that cheating is accepted as long as you can get away with it. I've never understood that mentality.

All I can think of is how fucking sad I am for the kid. You don't choose who your parents are. Mine weren't perfect by a far stretch but they didn't absolutely destroy my life like this guy.

All I gotta say is, damn, how busy is this ref? Jeez, the guy's an _attorney,_ refs sports matches, _and_ has a podcast? I'm lucky if I can get last night's dishes done before the middle of the next day.... 🤣🤣

Well, that wrestler is hopefully never taking his dad to a match again.

Parents that are living their dreams through their kid.

All that energy Hammond exerted in pushing someone, then running away to avoid punishment is cowardly. His son should be ashamed of him.

I watched the disintegration of parent behavior personally. My husband coached my son and daughter’s AySO teams for years. Daughter eventually made ODP, so it got very intense. AY had its moments, but by the time she was moving to a regional team, my husband bought himself a tiny pink beach chair. He called it his “cool out” chair, and he’d coach from sitting in it because parents would be harassing him constantly “Why haven’t you put Lindsay in” and “Didn’t you see that foul?” But the move to her first elite team was caaraazy. Dad’s were cussing, mother’s screaming like fishmonger’s wives, Dad’s were throwing chairs and KICKING TREES. I wanted her to quit that day. Parents would scream invective at my daughter all the time. I remember one time two men and a woman were screaming at her that she was faking injury (she’d been closelined by a defender). “Get the f up1 There’s nothing wrong with you.” I dropped my camera and started across the field. My kid stood up, looked at them and said, “You realize I’m 14 years old, right?” They shut up, thus saving me from a triple homicide charge.

I used to volunteer ref kid soccer games. I quit after my second assignment . The parents are out of control. They ruin sports for their kids . The 6 year olds behaved far better then the parents.Throwing temper tantrums & dropping f bombs for anything.

Im glad he is ok. And parents like that need not attend sporting events anymore. The embarrassment to the children should be more important to the parents,but they dont care about that at all.

i believe trumps bravado has charged many