Blue's community went into a decline after this. Stores closed, houses lay abandoned. It never recovered from the death sentence that Soccer Dad lay upon it that day.
I lost my Dad 2 years ago (don't feel bad...he made it to his 94th birthday with a sharp mind), but seeing this makes me appreciate him from my youth baseball days. He couldn't make it to a whole lot of my games because of his work, and when he did make it, it often wasn't until the 2nd or 3rd inning. But when he came in late like that, I never knew he was there until I looked up in the bleachers. He came, he watched the game, he cheered with the other parents, but he never once drew attention to himself with any antics. I appreciated that back then when I saw how some parents behaved, and I appreciate it even more now, watching how insane parents have become watching youth sports.
Your dad was from the Silent Generation. Literally and figuratively. That's how they were. Low-key, kept their heads down, did their thing, whether it was their job or being a parent. Most underrated generation ever.
Here in the Netherlands not only gets the parent banned for life the kids also get baned for life. Meaning he or she can never play again. If you get angry at the sideline you get banned for 3 months, second time 6 months and third time for life plus the child of that parent. For going after someone the third goes in effect. These rules got put in effect for because of fights between parent and parents that told there child to hurt the other.
@@waynelin6238 The parent is still going to visit the out games with the ban and make trouble there. Because the out clubs don't know how is banned from a soccer flied. That also mean there not allowed in soccer stadium. So the kid gets banned to as a result of the action of the parent.
@@peterb6783 I can understanding kicking the kid from the team (though even that seems unfair)... but a lifetime ban because of the parent seems extremely excessive and unfair. So a kid who really likes football cannot pursue professional football or join a Sunday league in his adulthood because of the actions of his parent? Are you saying that if Wesley Sneijder's dad had been a nuisance when he was 7 years old, he would have been barred from club football and the national team?
@@waynelin6238 There rules are just a few years old and seem to be working. Meaning that parents don't want to F***k up there kids future in the sport and will stay away from there kids games, don't react or fight at there kids games.
It's fun. Denver traffic is horrible, but a lot of good jobs. I moved there from Ohio it's like a whole new atmosphere no doubt. edit: yea I am in my 20s, it's a good area to move to.
Years ago while I was coaching my soccer team, a fan was heckling the ref during the entire game. There was maybe 15 minutes left when the ref stopped the game and responded to the fan. He yelled, "if your so damn good at being a ref, get your sorry ass out of the stands". The rest of the game was extremely peaceful.
Very common these days to have those many token ALPHAS around us everywhere, that simply don't understand what they are really doing .....although, because they are ALPHAS, they genuinely believe they know EVERYTHING about what they are doing. I hate to say it, but if this ALPHA had not been restrained ....he would have been slapped with a COURT RESTRAINING ORDER for the rest of the season and this would have put on his record .....FOR LIFE. Sadly, because he is an ALPHA, he would deny this would ever happen to him ....UNTIL IT DOES. They should have let him do whatever he was going to do .....and this would have served as a true "LIFE LESSON" for EVERYONE on this pitch.
I grew up where parents weren't involved in young kids sports, we called fouls ourselves, picked teams ourselves and never had problems like there are today.
@@kch7051 What does organized sports have to do with anything ? They're kids just trying to have fun and it's a mentality like yours and the doosh in the video that robs the kids of fun.
@@JD-zd8tm Dude, read my comment. playing around with local neighborhood kids is WAY different than playing in an organized sanctioned league....Do i really have to spell that out for you? Jesus christ man..Nobody EVER condoned this morons behavior. Are YOU that DUMB, or are you just a dick, with a dying need to play devils advocate and to try and create your own narrative to do so- you got issues buddy. Eff off mate take a hike. you are a fucking moron, completely missing the whole point. Shaking my head- what a BUFFOON
On a lighter note, but same type of situation I always remember the first and only time my mother came to watch me play. I had broken into the senior team at a fairly young age, and was more than used to playing against fully grown men. I remember giving an "older" player a fairly torrid time this particular day and after about half an hour he had had enough of me just running rings around him. He waited until I got the ball with my back to him, and he just cleaned me up, no attempt to play the ball, right in front of where my mum and dad were standing. This was back in the day when you could expect to cop something like this at least once or twice a game. After I had stopped seeing stars, and got to my feet I couldnt believe what I was seeing. There was my mother, belting the living daylights out of this bloke with her umbrella...my dad was trying to pull her away from him, without much success , but the thing was the rest of the crowd were in fits of laughter, even his own team mates had a laugh as well. After she calmed down, my dad put her in the car and took her home. Everyone thought it was hilarious, and even the bloke she belted had a laugh over it after the game. Needless to say that was the one and only time she saw me play.
In a lifetime of dealing with people including keeping them out of clubs I have run, every guy who " needs to be held back" won't ever do anything other than talk, even when released.
Most people are at least intelligent enough to know that actually harming a kid would land you in deeper shit than their little tantrum would be worth.
Nothing irritates me more than a parent behaving worse than a child at any competitive event involving kids. I've seen it with sporting events, spelling bees, speech contests, and which kid sold more Girl Scout cookies. It's embarrassing.
True. But I also hate videos like this because there’s no context. The father was certainly ugly in the video, but what happened before the video started? Why was the father upset? His son had his arm around him as they walked off the field. That’s not the reaction of a child that’s upset and embarrassed. It’s quite possible that something happened and his father was defending his child. So when I see videos like this I’m hesitant to be extremely critical of the father when the video didn’t show what led up to that incident. Of course more times than not the father is being a total asshole and it is in fact a sad commentary on today’s society what it’s not always the case so I’m hesitant to be critical without context.
My dad coached me twice in baseball. Once as the head in t-ball and once as the assistant coach on my high school team. He was a teacher, and he was and still is a better man and father than I probably deserved as a petulant teen. He treated me the exact same as he did every other guy on the team. The only time he got kicked out of a game was after our head coached was kicked out. The opposing team was deliberately releasing their bats after swings and hurling them at us just to rattle us. The umpire was a homer who wouldn’t do anything about it. Well after both our coaches got kicked out what do you think a bunch of 16-18 year olds did? We brawled the next time it happened. Most satisfying forfeit I’ve ever had.
@@Antisthanes The kid was probably behaving like a little wise ass bastard to set off a grown man like that. But.... what a tool the guy is. Lacking smarts is an understatement.
Hopefully this guy was barred from ever being at another game. Especially after wanting to do something to a kid. There should've been some kind of charges filed against him. People like this are everywhere unfortunately. You have to wonder what their kids turn out to be like.
I am a referee and a parent. Parents/adults never fail to amaze me at what an appalling example they can show to the children, this could put them off the sport all together, he should be truly ashamed of himself and not allowed to go anywhere near childrens sports grounds for a long time.
@@mragunathan1627 I was about to get all offended by your comment, then I realized who had said it.. As you were saying, something about Indians and their cricket obsession. 😂
Hard to fight sleep...it always seems to win eventually. Looks like the guy has been fighting sleep too long....or he needs a Snickers, maybe it's hunger.
3 things I noticed on one view of this video... 1 - I believe the offending parent is secretly thinking "dear God don't let this guy let go of me, keep holding me back" 2 - Beautiful snow capped mountains in the background. 4 - A guy in Utah wearing a Mets cap.
I just want to give credit to the films director for continuing to record long after....way long after the story and all the riveting dialogue ended. The beautiful snow covered mountains were gone and we were treated to the long range view of the parking lot
What a wonderful roll model this guy is. Well done sir, you are everything that is great about parents at sport. Hopefully you were able to get home in time to change that tampon.
No, he didn't make it. Needed to take some Midol (menstrual cramp med) and lay down in a dark room to cuddle with his Xbox. Probably had a good cry and a hot cup of tea too.
The kid always loses. Im 47 n i still remember a teammates dad n step dad fighting during 13 year old baseball. I remember to this day feeling so bad for my teammate.
I'm your age in reverse...74! I saw something similar when I was a nine-year-old kid. A teammate's dad showed up drunk to a little league game, harangued the umpire and was ejected from the diamond area. (Our own coach AND our fans supported this completely.) After sulking on a nearby swingset for an hour, the man returned and apologized to the umpire in front of everyone. Then he apologized to the other parents. Then he walked away, making no apology to my teammate who deserved one most of all. My teammate looked even more hurt than before, and it was left for the coaches and the other parents to console him.
All the parents in my daughter's softball league had to sign a zero tolerance form at the beginning of the season. Basically it said no heckling, swearing, or harassing anyone on or off the field during a game. I thought it was overkill and wondered why such a form was necessary... now I know.
Tough guy as long as someone's holding him back. I've seen it before. If they let him go he would have shut up and walked away. Keep it classy there dad. False bravado.
That father is an asshole, I remember refereeing hockey and umpiring baseball both at the age of 14. I lived still at home but my older brother playing on the hockey team at one time, He was very belligerent as was my mother. My brother struck me on the ice so I gave him a goose misconduct penalty, Mom threatened me as well and hit me on the head, she dar d me to write her up and my brother as well, so yup I wrote them up both. My older brother faced charges for threatening and assaulting an official. Mom was in trouble for the same reason. Both faced serious charges. I had my way around the house being a sports official!! My Dad never went onto the field/ice nor over stepped boundaries with any official including myself. No matter who the ref is or who you are, you do NOT harass, threaten or assault the official because you can face serious charges especially from the league and sanctions
This made me think of my Dad attending my games for my school football team in South East London back in around 1972 when I was 10 years old. Dad was a policeman but if he had a Saturday free he would come along to watch even in winter. The problem was that I was always substitute and never got a game yet still he attended week after week. Then finally, one Saturday morning, two players for the opposing team failed to show and my teacher asked me to help make up the numbers by playing for the other school. The only time Dad got to see me play competitively was when I played for another school. We lost 5-0!
10 grown men standing around and in the first five seconds of the video we hear "Call the cops right now, call the cops" by one of the men. Oy vey our society is weakening.
Sick all those Karens on him, I am sad for his kids. I can hear them in therapy in 10 years, (well, when my dad stopped obeying the restraining orders, thats when shit got really crazy".
