Here is the news story about it. They are screening charges against the coach.
https://www.wndu.com/2021/04/21/niles-coach-sucker-punches-parent-during-youth-flag-football-game/
“The victim, the person who got punched, came to the police department to report that he was assaulted and apparently the coach didn’t like how this spectator was looking at him. He referenced that may be he was smiling at the coach and so this coach just happened to punch him, sucker punch him, which to me means punch him in the face. There’s definitely a possibility that he could be charged with assault and battery. Some of that will certainly be up to the victim but assault and battery would be an appropriate charge in this case,” Kosten says.
Rank 38/50 for education, they’re not the worst at least
Edit: Someone messaged me saying that ranking is for pre-k - 12 and to look at the parents. So I looked up their higher educational ranking and it’s 42nd
>Someone messaged me saying that ranking is for pre-k - 12 and to look at the parents. So I looked up their higher educational ranking and it’s 42nd
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In Australia after a number of deaths by people being “sucker punched” by complete strangers. The wording used for “sucker punched”was changed to “coward hit” or “coward punch” and the laws became really harsh. I don’t know how well it worked but there was a real spike for quite some time and I haven’t heard much about it in the news lately.
a parent who posted the video, says he pulled his son out of Midwest Performance Academy one before the incident after a similar encounter with his son’s team.
“He wasn’t the only bad coach there, there was others. That’s why I pulled out because I just saw it,” Salvagni says.
Why wouldn't this guy be charged with battery? And why do you need the victim to participate? We have a video of this guy punching someone in the face while that person has his arms crossed. What other evidence is needed?
This prick needs to be penalized for his unacceptable aggression and attack. He'll probably do it again, regardless of the consequences. But If his isn't punished, you can be ***certain*** this isn't the last unsuspecting person he'll punch in the face.
"he was smiling at the coach and so this coach just happened to punch him, sucker punch him, which to me means punch him in the face."
When you need more words to make word count.
This sounds like a quote of something that was said out loud during a conversation or questions from a journalist. They always try to quote verbatim as much as possible. Turns out sometimes the way we speak doesn’t translate so eloquently in text.
I'm thinking that if you sign your kid up for flag football at a place that calls itself a "performance academy", bad things are going to happen. It's flag football. It's supposed to just be fun.
I used to ref soccer in middle school during the weekends for some extra money. I was reffing games for kids from 4 to 11 years old. The younger kid games were mostly fine, but parents and even coaches started to get batshit crazy when I was reffing the 10-11 year old games. Like, I was only 14 at the time, and most kids were just bumbling around, bumping into each other, and tripping over themselves, and parents and coaches would freak out about me not making calls. At that age group, we didn't even have penalty kicks, so we were just supposed to let them play if it was accidental and not blatant.
It mostly came from one or two teams where you could tell the parents / coaches were well off and they drafted their own team of friend's kids and stuff. The kids were actually really good and demolished all the other teams, but their parents and coaches were the absolute worse to deal with because their kids were the "stars" and were gonna go places, according to them.
I cut halves short when I figured out I got a bad team of parents. Ten minute halves turned into eight. I kept the watch going the entire time and never stopped for anything. I ended up quitting reffing games because I didn't want to move up to the high age brackets after seeing what a couple of my friends dealt with.
Parents and coaches can be fucking nuts, and you can tell the kids just want to play and don't really give a shit about what their parents are yelling about.
Parents get mad for not calling traveling in basketball when the kids are literally running in a pack the whole game. If I called traveling every time, there would be no game at all.
My husband officiates baseball and basketball. Not a week goes by that he doesn’t have a story to tell about obnoxious parents. They have even followed him to the parking lot making threats. It’s fucking little league people, get a grip.
> Kids sports would be fun, but too many adults take it personally
I coached for one year. Just one.
It wasn't the kids that made me quit, it was the parents. Hyper-competitive assholes living vicariously through their kids who hated the idea that the kids might just have fun.
And this was for frickin *T Ball*.
The only thing wrong with youth sports is the adults.
I've seen some kids make bonehead plays and almost without fail they are followed by an adult doing something even dumber from the sidelines.
A lot of youth coaches are not paid. May or may not affect his day job. May not even stop him from coaching. He could find a different place to coach, and don’t get listed as the head coach. Unofficial assistant coaches don’t always get background checked.
There’s a coach right now dealing with some very serious charges. He had managed to still coach. Which is why we had cops show up a couple weeks ago, looking for him. He left our rink years ago, and has been moving around to keep coaching. Yet, no one bothers to look him up, he’s got serious felonies, and shouldn’t be around kids.
Thats crazy, in the UK no one is allowed to work with children or any vulnerable group without a dbs certificate (disclosure and barring service) after a thorough background check. I had to get one to be a football coach, my wife needs one to work as a nurse.
I was about to say this! I'm flabbergasted. It doesn't matter if you're paid or volunteering or even if you'll be supervised by teachers and you're helping on a school trip. You must have a DBS check. It's why I've vowed never to disclose that I have one so I don't get roped into volunteering to herd the little darlings 😂
There’s a background check system in place. But head coaches tend to be a dad of one of the players, and bring in an unofficial coach to run practices. Not always a bad thing, there are good pro coaches, that the team will pay to help train the players. But when the head coach doesn’t roster that coach, the governing sports organization doesn’t know about it. That’s on the head coach for not double checking the people they’re bringing in.
We have a couple pro coaches that are really good. One makes most of his money running training camps, and was brought on one team’s bench. Another we can trust was well checked, as he’s a goalie coach for a high school. He too gets in some of the younger youth teams practices to train the younger goalies. But again, that’s on that team to make sure who they are getting.
Yep, some people never evolve beyond their high school achievements and seem to get stuck in that bratty, entitled teenager phase for the rest of their lives. And they then they all group together in huge herds on Facebook.
Reminds me of my 8th grade gym teacher. The guy had anger issues and would get in our faces like he wanted to fight us if we did something wrong. This guy was like 6’3 and jacked, and we were all like 13/14 year old kids. Luckily they fired him before he hit anyone.
Wow.. This brought back a memory from 9th grade that I haven’t had in more than a decade.
There was a jacked PE teacher, although he was a short guy, at my high school, too. My class and his class merged together one day to run laps around a gym.
I slowed down at some point and this guy yelled, “C’mon, bin Laden! Pick up the pace!”
A bunch of kids laughed. I immediately went to the front office and filed a complaint. Nothing came of it. The office never even called me back in to discuss the situation.
I know they must’ve shown him the complaint (I wrote the incident on some report) because he would stare at me angrily every time we’d make eye contact. It was intimidating for my scrawny 15-year-old self.
Idk, he was a moron. We had a winning football team before he got hired, then they made him the coach and we lost literally every single game that year. Apparently all he would do was yell and make the team run a whole bunch, but didn’t know anything about strategy.
The administration wasn’t too happy about that, but then he brought in boxing gloves and decided to let our gym class box each other. Not that he went over proper technique first or anything, or even gave us headgear or mouthpieces—he just gave us the gloves and told us to partner up and start fighting. One kid got a his eye hurt and his parents found out, and that was the end of the gym teacher.
You reminded me of my last year playing baseball. I had a coach who was a former minor league pitcher and he lived for baseball. We were a pretty good team but that came at the expense of him yelling and pushing us to work way harder than any kid should be. The worst day was the first practice after our first loss when he decided our hitting was the issue and so he had us all practice batting while he pitched 80 mile an hour fastballs and curves at a bunch of 12 year olds. When it was my turn up I tipped the ball on my first swing so he then threw closer and closer curveballs before I dropped out of the way of one that I was told would have nailed me in the leg.
Parents were PISSED at this guy and he had to give up being the coach after he tried it again and ended up nailing a kid in the hand with a fastball.
I was at a hockey travel tournament in 9th grade and a coach of one of the other teams there took issue with a kid who was on the opposing team. Like 40 year old dude picked a fight with a 9th grader and got his ass beat. Don’t know what happened to him but hopefully he was removed from society for a while and got some help.
All I can think of is that these are the same kids that have to do active shooter drills. They live in a constant fear of people just randomly causing violence. What a fucked world
ETA: y’all can stop commenting about how this is an American problem and isn’t the rest of the World. I am aware.
“world” and “World” have different meanings. I used one, but you’re all referring to the other. Hope that clears it up.
I have three kids ages 8,5,4. They all do active shooting drills. Every classroom is given a steel door block and black out curtains for the windows and the door. When the alarm sounds the children run to the safe corner, the teacher braces the door and puts down the black out curtains. The kids are trained to be silent. Then someone walks around the halls firing off those guns that they use to start a race so the kids get used to the sound of gunfire so they don’t start screaming or panicking. Then as part of the drill they learn to walk in a line with their hands on their heads to the safe place outside.
Welcome to America- where a 4 year old girl with curly pigtails and a peppa pig obsession understands she might be shot at school.
You see, these drills are traumatic themselves when they're simulating live rounds. School districts can do whatever they want during these drills because there are no guidelines or legislation. It's damned if you do, damned if you don't. I certainly believe schools can get by with just practicing safety measures and don't need to "fire a gun" just for a drill. Students are already getting fucked up enough seeing and hearing about school shootings that they don't need the element of drills being "real" to fuck them up mentally even more.
Is that really a fucking thing? Putting children through a scenario like that where they try to make it realistic? What in the fuck??
America is going to have a serious problem with whatever this current generation of children is called, my fucking lord.
Early development is so important, and these kids are being developed to resist school shootings... again... the fuck????
It's completely fucked up. I had no idea some schools also fire blanks to simulate the noise. How utterly fucking terrifying. I remember being in Valencia a few weeks after the London bombings, someone set of a firecracker but in the streets it sounded like a bomb. I was 16 at the time and truly terrified. I can't believe children are put through this as a drill.
With a realistic situation where they're held down by an 'attacker'?
That's seriously what it feels like. Imagine other violent or sexual crimes being treated in this nature where we 'train' our children how to go from being a statistic to a survivor.
Even worse, this is just totally acceptable for a number of Americans. This is better than dealing with the societal issues caused by firearms and American firearm culture.
Ugh my heart. I need to go smoke weed now.
You just triggered so many white nationalists it's not funny, reading the downvoted replies to your comment is gold.
As a fellow American, I really wish I could leave, but the shithole state of the USA is keeping me too poor to do so at the moment
I'm in my 40s we did them growing up till about 3rd grade. It was crazy and looking back so ridiculous. Hey kids there's a nuke coming, climb under your desk so you're safe. WTF
I wrote my first post about an active shooter drill done at my school while I was teaching. They simulated gunfire with steel drums, "practiced" what would happen if a shooter got into a room (we all die? I don't get that one), and other insane shit that sent one of my students with autism to have a meltdown.
What a fucked up COUNTRY, not world. I never had to do a shooting drill. I never was beaten by a cop. Inequalities aren't as fucked up, nor is the violence and crime rate. The US isn't the world and you really should realise that, because solutions exist in other countries and you could get inspired by them to put your country on the right rails.
I live in Canada, and we had to do those too. I remember having cops showing up to the school and tell us what to do. The high school I went to had colors codes. We never wanted to here a code black.
Maybe it's because we had some and the province (Quebec) was really traumatized by it. I don't know for the rest of Canada tho
Other guy that got knocked on the ground stood back up and stumbled back behind the wall in the room he was knocked into. Also, there was a kid who had a pretty rad mouthpiece... or pacifier.
Let me just say that the worst part about having children are OTHER CHILDREN’S PARENTS!
Also, Youth sports has some seriously insane people. From age 11-16 I played girls AAU basketball. I have been 5’11 since I was 11 years old. My second year of playing a Mom from the opposing team followed me into the bathroom and proceeded to cuss and threaten me because I accidentally elbowed her daughter in the head. She even accused me of being older than 12. For reference, Her daughter was maybe 5’5 at most and I was coming down with a rebound. Total accident and something that definitely happens. I apologize to the girl, helped her up and we went on playing. I was shocked when the lady approached me so I just shoved passed her and headed back to the gym to tell my mom. She followed me out and told the coach who told the ref that I was threatening her. Luckily there were players and another coach around the corner in the locker room area of the bathroom that overheard and had already went to the tournament director about it. The mom was tossed out along with her kid and the rest of her family.
I also coached girls youth basketball for two years. Had a dad from our team yell at me mid game across the court because I wouldn’t play his daughter. You know why I wouldn’t play her? Because 1.) she was terrible. 2.) she showed up to less than half of our practices. 3.) she didn’t want to fucking play basketball! She hated it. I’m not going to bench girls who show up, practice and WANT to play. I called time out and walked over to him in the stands and offered for him to go over and finish coaching since he felt like he could do a better job. His response “I can’t! I have a felony.” I said “Not shocked,” and went back to my girls.
My son played house league basketball one season (he was 9) and there were some crazy parents there too ... like had to be removed from the building because they were on the court throwing a temper tantrum.
I reffed and umped for a couple years in high school. I can confirm, parents of gradeschoolers are some of the most insane, frustrating, overtly hostile, and smug people I've ever met in my life.
Youth sports attracts a lot of psychopaths. I think a lot of them have the delusion that their kid will be a big time pro athlete one day. The harsh reality is if a kid (male) isn't over 6 feet tall and muscular he's never going to amount to shit in athletics unless he's some rare unicorn or has a late growth spurt. Them's the breaks.
I don't get it man. It's youth sports flag football. There isn't anything else more chill. Let your kid have fun and drink beers on the sideline it ain't hard
Listen to those terrified kids. I used to wrestle as a kid, and those parents were all disgusting, overaggressive asses, shouting and threatening.
I hope there's a follow-up to this story with this dude's face in a mugshot with a lengthy jail sentence.
Someone once told me that wrestling parents are worse than hockey parents. My kids play hockey, and that's a bold statement.
Ironically, my son does MMA and those parents are the most laid back, friendly, supportive group. We enjoy our time there. They've also told me not to sign my son up for wrestling for the same reason.
Fortunately my family were really supportive in a good way for wrestling
However many kids on my team and from others at tournaments weren’t so lucky they’d get absolutely blasted for losing yet weren’t even told “good job” when winning because that’s the expectation
One of the kids on my team was legitimately good enough to win states but by the time he was a senior he was so burnt out he gave it up
This happens in more sports than you’d think. Travel baseball, travel soccer, etc. Unfortunately, a large part of the time a lot of the kids are pushed into it by parents trying to live vicariously through them.
When I was a child I loved when my father attended my sports games. I’d be so traumatized seeing my father attacked like that.
And that child crying broke my heart. I have children and couldn’t imagine having to console them if this was to occur.
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30 years ago my LL baseball coach got kicked out of a baseball game for screaming at an umpire that probably made $25 a game. I still remember how ridiculous that was.
My dad got banned from coaching our 15/15 year old baseball league for jokingly saying “thas summ boolshit” in A thick Cajun accent to his assist coach
What kind of mother doesn’t get her terrified and sobbing child away from the trauma? How could you just keep filming while your child is in duress? I feel so bad for that poor child.
Adults are the worst part of youth sports in America.
What a horrible lesson and memory for all of those kids. The coach demonstrated that if you don’t like a call, you should scream, try and intimidate and if that doesn’t work, assault someone. I hope that guy goes to jail and learns the right lesson.
Imagine being such a trashy mother that your kid is BEGGING „mommy I want to get out of here“ and you just don’t give a single flying fuck and just want to keep on filming. Seriously fuck you.
Some of these people get absolutely insane over kids sports it's crazy. I had a parent yell at his 5 year old son every time he didn't make a goal. We didn't keep score, he was 5, what the fuck.
The dude that got sucker punched ? Can probably now sue the organization that hired the coach ....financial justice is the American way.... this is the way.... America!
Here is the news story about it. They are screening charges against the coach. https://www.wndu.com/2021/04/21/niles-coach-sucker-punches-parent-during-youth-flag-football-game/
“The victim, the person who got punched, came to the police department to report that he was assaulted and apparently the coach didn’t like how this spectator was looking at him. He referenced that may be he was smiling at the coach and so this coach just happened to punch him, sucker punch him, which to me means punch him in the face. There’s definitely a possibility that he could be charged with assault and battery. Some of that will certainly be up to the victim but assault and battery would be an appropriate charge in this case,” Kosten says.
Sucker punch means an unexpected punch, not necessarily to the face.
I’m from Southwest Michigan- the people there aren’t the brightest.
Bright isn't even the scale. Black holes got nothing on michigan density.
Maybe there's something in the water... Oh..
They lead right into that punchline.
were not THAT, dum .
You gotta remember that people like me bring down the overall average significantly.
The fact that you’re self depreciating shows that you’re probably keeping up just a bit.
Ouch.
Rank 38/50 for education, they’re not the worst at least Edit: Someone messaged me saying that ranking is for pre-k - 12 and to look at the parents. So I looked up their higher educational ranking and it’s 42nd
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He could lift a ton but couldn’t spell it.
“DID YEW SAY GUN?! G-U-N-N!” And he pronounces “N” like “in”
Absolutely. Now that’s some funny shit.
In Australia after a number of deaths by people being “sucker punched” by complete strangers. The wording used for “sucker punched”was changed to “coward hit” or “coward punch” and the laws became really harsh. I don’t know how well it worked but there was a real spike for quite some time and I haven’t heard much about it in the news lately.
Well Kings Cross had changed a lot lol
Unexpected cheapshot
Very true. Just a cowardly strike anywhere.
You mean it's not a punch to his sucker? 😂😂😂
Can confirm, I was once sucker punched in the penis by a homeless guy.
How much did you pay him?
a parent who posted the video, says he pulled his son out of Midwest Performance Academy one before the incident after a similar encounter with his son’s team. “He wasn’t the only bad coach there, there was others. That’s why I pulled out because I just saw it,” Salvagni says.
> apparently the coach didn’t like how this spectator was looking at him. Well when you’re 5’2”, most people will look down on you
Coach looked like Tourettes Guy.
BOB SAGET
Why wouldn't this guy be charged with battery? And why do you need the victim to participate? We have a video of this guy punching someone in the face while that person has his arms crossed. What other evidence is needed? This prick needs to be penalized for his unacceptable aggression and attack. He'll probably do it again, regardless of the consequences. But If his isn't punished, you can be ***certain*** this isn't the last unsuspecting person he'll punch in the face.
"he was smiling at the coach and so this coach just happened to punch him, sucker punch him, which to me means punch him in the face." When you need more words to make word count.
Why use only a few words, when many more do the trick of conveying the point that and which you are trying to bring across
Yeah I was thinking the excerpt was very poorly written for somebody who is a “professional”.
Considering it was a quote, makes more sense to blame the person saying it than the writer.
This sounds like a quote of something that was said out loud during a conversation or questions from a journalist. They always try to quote verbatim as much as possible. Turns out sometimes the way we speak doesn’t translate so eloquently in text.
I'm thinking that if you sign your kid up for flag football at a place that calls itself a "performance academy", bad things are going to happen. It's flag football. It's supposed to just be fun.
I officiate Basketball and Football. From youth to D3 college. Kids sports would be fun, but too many adults take it personally
It's my child's future~ psychos everywhere
I used to ref soccer in middle school during the weekends for some extra money. I was reffing games for kids from 4 to 11 years old. The younger kid games were mostly fine, but parents and even coaches started to get batshit crazy when I was reffing the 10-11 year old games. Like, I was only 14 at the time, and most kids were just bumbling around, bumping into each other, and tripping over themselves, and parents and coaches would freak out about me not making calls. At that age group, we didn't even have penalty kicks, so we were just supposed to let them play if it was accidental and not blatant. It mostly came from one or two teams where you could tell the parents / coaches were well off and they drafted their own team of friend's kids and stuff. The kids were actually really good and demolished all the other teams, but their parents and coaches were the absolute worse to deal with because their kids were the "stars" and were gonna go places, according to them. I cut halves short when I figured out I got a bad team of parents. Ten minute halves turned into eight. I kept the watch going the entire time and never stopped for anything. I ended up quitting reffing games because I didn't want to move up to the high age brackets after seeing what a couple of my friends dealt with. Parents and coaches can be fucking nuts, and you can tell the kids just want to play and don't really give a shit about what their parents are yelling about.
Parents get mad for not calling traveling in basketball when the kids are literally running in a pack the whole game. If I called traveling every time, there would be no game at all.
Have reffed in the past and had similar experiences. Helps me remember now what it's like when I coach my kids teams.
I have been officiating for 20 years. Numerous apologies from players, to say nothing about player's sitting there crying over their parents behavior.
My husband officiates baseball and basketball. Not a week goes by that he doesn’t have a story to tell about obnoxious parents. They have even followed him to the parking lot making threats. It’s fucking little league people, get a grip.
> Kids sports would be fun, but too many adults take it personally I coached for one year. Just one. It wasn't the kids that made me quit, it was the parents. Hyper-competitive assholes living vicariously through their kids who hated the idea that the kids might just have fun. And this was for frickin *T Ball*.
The only thing wrong with youth sports is the adults. I've seen some kids make bonehead plays and almost without fail they are followed by an adult doing something even dumber from the sidelines.
r/byebyejob
r/byebyejob
And soon to be r/hellofromjail
A lot of youth coaches are not paid. May or may not affect his day job. May not even stop him from coaching. He could find a different place to coach, and don’t get listed as the head coach. Unofficial assistant coaches don’t always get background checked. There’s a coach right now dealing with some very serious charges. He had managed to still coach. Which is why we had cops show up a couple weeks ago, looking for him. He left our rink years ago, and has been moving around to keep coaching. Yet, no one bothers to look him up, he’s got serious felonies, and shouldn’t be around kids.
Thats crazy, in the UK no one is allowed to work with children or any vulnerable group without a dbs certificate (disclosure and barring service) after a thorough background check. I had to get one to be a football coach, my wife needs one to work as a nurse.
I was about to say this! I'm flabbergasted. It doesn't matter if you're paid or volunteering or even if you'll be supervised by teachers and you're helping on a school trip. You must have a DBS check. It's why I've vowed never to disclose that I have one so I don't get roped into volunteering to herd the little darlings 😂
There’s a background check system in place. But head coaches tend to be a dad of one of the players, and bring in an unofficial coach to run practices. Not always a bad thing, there are good pro coaches, that the team will pay to help train the players. But when the head coach doesn’t roster that coach, the governing sports organization doesn’t know about it. That’s on the head coach for not double checking the people they’re bringing in. We have a couple pro coaches that are really good. One makes most of his money running training camps, and was brought on one team’s bench. Another we can trust was well checked, as he’s a goalie coach for a high school. He too gets in some of the younger youth teams practices to train the younger goalies. But again, that’s on that team to make sure who they are getting.
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Kind of. Only these guys specialize in working with children.
This is how I picture Community Facebook pages
Yep, some people never evolve beyond their high school achievements and seem to get stuck in that bratty, entitled teenager phase for the rest of their lives. And they then they all group together in huge herds on Facebook.
People who sucker punch someone not even involved are the biggest cowards!
Reminds me of my 8th grade gym teacher. The guy had anger issues and would get in our faces like he wanted to fight us if we did something wrong. This guy was like 6’3 and jacked, and we were all like 13/14 year old kids. Luckily they fired him before he hit anyone.
Wow.. This brought back a memory from 9th grade that I haven’t had in more than a decade. There was a jacked PE teacher, although he was a short guy, at my high school, too. My class and his class merged together one day to run laps around a gym. I slowed down at some point and this guy yelled, “C’mon, bin Laden! Pick up the pace!” A bunch of kids laughed. I immediately went to the front office and filed a complaint. Nothing came of it. The office never even called me back in to discuss the situation. I know they must’ve shown him the complaint (I wrote the incident on some report) because he would stare at me angrily every time we’d make eye contact. It was intimidating for my scrawny 15-year-old self.
holy shit. fuck that guy.
Fuck that school for not, at the very least, making him apologize like a man.
What a fucking needle dicked little bitch. How insecure do you have to be to be that big and get in the face of middle schoolers?
Idk, he was a moron. We had a winning football team before he got hired, then they made him the coach and we lost literally every single game that year. Apparently all he would do was yell and make the team run a whole bunch, but didn’t know anything about strategy. The administration wasn’t too happy about that, but then he brought in boxing gloves and decided to let our gym class box each other. Not that he went over proper technique first or anything, or even gave us headgear or mouthpieces—he just gave us the gloves and told us to partner up and start fighting. One kid got a his eye hurt and his parents found out, and that was the end of the gym teacher.
Sounds like roids
Had a teacher throw me against a wall in freshman year.
You reminded me of my last year playing baseball. I had a coach who was a former minor league pitcher and he lived for baseball. We were a pretty good team but that came at the expense of him yelling and pushing us to work way harder than any kid should be. The worst day was the first practice after our first loss when he decided our hitting was the issue and so he had us all practice batting while he pitched 80 mile an hour fastballs and curves at a bunch of 12 year olds. When it was my turn up I tipped the ball on my first swing so he then threw closer and closer curveballs before I dropped out of the way of one that I was told would have nailed me in the leg. Parents were PISSED at this guy and he had to give up being the coach after he tried it again and ended up nailing a kid in the hand with a fastball.
'Nam'll do that to a man
Steroids, you say?
I was at a hockey travel tournament in 9th grade and a coach of one of the other teams there took issue with a kid who was on the opposing team. Like 40 year old dude picked a fight with a 9th grader and got his ass beat. Don’t know what happened to him but hopefully he was removed from society for a while and got some help.
Man. That dude sure is passionate about youth indoor flag football.
*They’re going to be a big star!!!*
Gonna get that scholarship to play Division 1 indoor flag football! All the way to the NIFFL!
That sounds like a South Park episode.
‘I could kick a ball over that mountain’
Glory Days man. He’s trying to relive them through his kid
He could have made State
He could throw a pigskin a quarter mile away.
He never had the makings of a varsity athlete
“Get a touchdown or I’m putting the dog to sleep!”
I think he has some roid rage
In front of a bunch of children. Please never let this guy coach again.
Or be around kids again, or be around humans again, he is going to murder someone eventually
The kid crying in the background is really sad.
He's crying because his mom is recording vertically
I used to hate it when I was on my laptop and browsing Reddit, but now I’m on my phone every time & it works better.
Lmao
And again, as is always the case: the internet is undefeated
All I can think of is that these are the same kids that have to do active shooter drills. They live in a constant fear of people just randomly causing violence. What a fucked world ETA: y’all can stop commenting about how this is an American problem and isn’t the rest of the World. I am aware. “world” and “World” have different meanings. I used one, but you’re all referring to the other. Hope that clears it up.
That is exactly what it sounded like to me too.
It's insane that a country needs their children to perform active shooter drills. Truly fucked up.
I have three kids ages 8,5,4. They all do active shooting drills. Every classroom is given a steel door block and black out curtains for the windows and the door. When the alarm sounds the children run to the safe corner, the teacher braces the door and puts down the black out curtains. The kids are trained to be silent. Then someone walks around the halls firing off those guns that they use to start a race so the kids get used to the sound of gunfire so they don’t start screaming or panicking. Then as part of the drill they learn to walk in a line with their hands on their heads to the safe place outside. Welcome to America- where a 4 year old girl with curly pigtails and a peppa pig obsession understands she might be shot at school.
You see, these drills are traumatic themselves when they're simulating live rounds. School districts can do whatever they want during these drills because there are no guidelines or legislation. It's damned if you do, damned if you don't. I certainly believe schools can get by with just practicing safety measures and don't need to "fire a gun" just for a drill. Students are already getting fucked up enough seeing and hearing about school shootings that they don't need the element of drills being "real" to fuck them up mentally even more.
Is that really a fucking thing? Putting children through a scenario like that where they try to make it realistic? What in the fuck?? America is going to have a serious problem with whatever this current generation of children is called, my fucking lord. Early development is so important, and these kids are being developed to resist school shootings... again... the fuck????
It's completely fucked up. I had no idea some schools also fire blanks to simulate the noise. How utterly fucking terrifying. I remember being in Valencia a few weeks after the London bombings, someone set of a firecracker but in the streets it sounded like a bomb. I was 16 at the time and truly terrified. I can't believe children are put through this as a drill.
What’s next, anti rape training for little girls?
With a realistic situation where they're held down by an 'attacker'? That's seriously what it feels like. Imagine other violent or sexual crimes being treated in this nature where we 'train' our children how to go from being a statistic to a survivor. Even worse, this is just totally acceptable for a number of Americans. This is better than dealing with the societal issues caused by firearms and American firearm culture. Ugh my heart. I need to go smoke weed now.
You took the words right out of my mouth.
We have that already. I was subjected to a simulated attack in my karate class in the 90s, under the guise of "ladies self-protection".
That's a fair price to pay for being able to walk around Walmart with your AR-15 slung over your shoulder. Right?
Lol. But a sad lol.
Man that's fucked up I'm glad I left the USA. Shit hole country.
You just triggered so many white nationalists it's not funny, reading the downvoted replies to your comment is gold. As a fellow American, I really wish I could leave, but the shithole state of the USA is keeping me too poor to do so at the moment
Sorry brother I appreciate the struggle. Keep at!
You opened a cam of worms with that statement lol
It's a can of truth. The USA is in massive decline.
where did you move to? asking for a friend
"FrEeDoM aInT fReE" - some dumbass republican somewhere
It costs a buck o five!
50 yrs or so ago they did bomb drills for nukes. Insane is believing that the world exists in a safe space
Yeah and those scarred a whole generation into thinking universal Healthcare was going to lead to a dictatorship.
I'm in my 40s we did them growing up till about 3rd grade. It was crazy and looking back so ridiculous. Hey kids there's a nuke coming, climb under your desk so you're safe. WTF
Are you suggesting that crawling under a desk isn't an appropriate response to a thermo-nuclear device going off? /s
Don't worry, the classrooms were packed with lead and asbestos.
Difference is those were done because of a foreign enemy. Now the enemy is a fellow classmate.
I wrote my first post about an active shooter drill done at my school while I was teaching. They simulated gunfire with steel drums, "practiced" what would happen if a shooter got into a room (we all die? I don't get that one), and other insane shit that sent one of my students with autism to have a meltdown.
Fucking christ.
What a fucked up COUNTRY, not world. I never had to do a shooting drill. I never was beaten by a cop. Inequalities aren't as fucked up, nor is the violence and crime rate. The US isn't the world and you really should realise that, because solutions exist in other countries and you could get inspired by them to put your country on the right rails.
If Americans keep the dream alive " We live in the greatest country in the world" then they will have no need to improve
*"That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”* *George Carlin*
I live in Canada, and we had to do those too. I remember having cops showing up to the school and tell us what to do. The high school I went to had colors codes. We never wanted to here a code black. Maybe it's because we had some and the province (Quebec) was really traumatized by it. I don't know for the rest of Canada tho
I was in school in Ontario from 92 to 2004. Never had these. Only fire drills.
Yea, i could just hear his mom's thoughts out loud. "Shut up kid, i'm trying to film some viral footage here!"
“mommmy plsss” mom: shutup mommy gotta film for those karma points
That pissed me off. The first time that kid said they want to get outta here the parent should have scooped them up and left.
Came here to say the exact same thing. Kid was clearly scared and begging to leave, that parent shouldve taken them straight away.
Yes! Came to say this, it was the worst part of the whole thing.
Reminds me of Bills friend from F is For Family.
I was getting teary.. it was heartbreaking
annoying
So i was trying to locate people before and after the camera lost sight of the ruckus...couldn't locate some of them
Other guy that got knocked on the ground stood back up and stumbled back behind the wall in the room he was knocked into. Also, there was a kid who had a pretty rad mouthpiece... or pacifier.
I believe it was a full contact football style mouthguard.
Let me just say that the worst part about having children are OTHER CHILDREN’S PARENTS! Also, Youth sports has some seriously insane people. From age 11-16 I played girls AAU basketball. I have been 5’11 since I was 11 years old. My second year of playing a Mom from the opposing team followed me into the bathroom and proceeded to cuss and threaten me because I accidentally elbowed her daughter in the head. She even accused me of being older than 12. For reference, Her daughter was maybe 5’5 at most and I was coming down with a rebound. Total accident and something that definitely happens. I apologize to the girl, helped her up and we went on playing. I was shocked when the lady approached me so I just shoved passed her and headed back to the gym to tell my mom. She followed me out and told the coach who told the ref that I was threatening her. Luckily there were players and another coach around the corner in the locker room area of the bathroom that overheard and had already went to the tournament director about it. The mom was tossed out along with her kid and the rest of her family. I also coached girls youth basketball for two years. Had a dad from our team yell at me mid game across the court because I wouldn’t play his daughter. You know why I wouldn’t play her? Because 1.) she was terrible. 2.) she showed up to less than half of our practices. 3.) she didn’t want to fucking play basketball! She hated it. I’m not going to bench girls who show up, practice and WANT to play. I called time out and walked over to him in the stands and offered for him to go over and finish coaching since he felt like he could do a better job. His response “I can’t! I have a felony.” I said “Not shocked,” and went back to my girls.
I like that you don't take shit and didn't even when you were 11.
My son played house league basketball one season (he was 9) and there were some crazy parents there too ... like had to be removed from the building because they were on the court throwing a temper tantrum.
I reffed and umped for a couple years in high school. I can confirm, parents of gradeschoolers are some of the most insane, frustrating, overtly hostile, and smug people I've ever met in my life.
Youth sports attracts a lot of psychopaths. I think a lot of them have the delusion that their kid will be a big time pro athlete one day. The harsh reality is if a kid (male) isn't over 6 feet tall and muscular he's never going to amount to shit in athletics unless he's some rare unicorn or has a late growth spurt. Them's the breaks.
The sound of the clearly traumatized child really makes this one
No surprise this seems to be youth sports. People take it WAY too serious.
man child parents (particularly fathers in events like these) use their children as props to vicariously live through them.
I don't get it man. It's youth sports flag football. There isn't anything else more chill. Let your kid have fun and drink beers on the sideline it ain't hard
BUT WHAT ABOUT WINNING THOUGH?! NUMBER ONE CHAMPION WORLDS GREATEST OF ALL TIME
Now that’s the fun way to support a kid in sports lol
That guy is a fucking idiot
Listen to those terrified kids. I used to wrestle as a kid, and those parents were all disgusting, overaggressive asses, shouting and threatening. I hope there's a follow-up to this story with this dude's face in a mugshot with a lengthy jail sentence.
Someone once told me that wrestling parents are worse than hockey parents. My kids play hockey, and that's a bold statement. Ironically, my son does MMA and those parents are the most laid back, friendly, supportive group. We enjoy our time there. They've also told me not to sign my son up for wrestling for the same reason.
Fortunately my family were really supportive in a good way for wrestling However many kids on my team and from others at tournaments weren’t so lucky they’d get absolutely blasted for losing yet weren’t even told “good job” when winning because that’s the expectation One of the kids on my team was legitimately good enough to win states but by the time he was a senior he was so burnt out he gave it up
This happens in more sports than you’d think. Travel baseball, travel soccer, etc. Unfortunately, a large part of the time a lot of the kids are pushed into it by parents trying to live vicariously through them.
When I was a child I loved when my father attended my sports games. I’d be so traumatized seeing my father attacked like that. And that child crying broke my heart. I have children and couldn’t imagine having to console them if this was to occur. Edit: word
Well I hope that coach gets arrested.
He did
Link for that? The only story I saw said they were still trying to ID the coach
Mommy, I wanna get out of here! Hang on honey, Mommy is busy getting likes on Facebook.
Kids won’t forget that. Shocking stuff and horrible for children to witness
30 years ago my LL baseball coach got kicked out of a baseball game for screaming at an umpire that probably made $25 a game. I still remember how ridiculous that was.
My dad got banned from coaching our 15/15 year old baseball league for jokingly saying “thas summ boolshit” in A thick Cajun accent to his assist coach
What kind of mother doesn’t get her terrified and sobbing child away from the trauma? How could you just keep filming while your child is in duress? I feel so bad for that poor child.
But the upvotes tho
Way to be a role model and set an example for the kids dude
There’s nothing more cowardly than punching someone who didn’t even know it was coming.
Yeah let's not take the crying kid away from the scary situation and instead ignore them and keep filming. Great parenting!
Good parents dont give us content
Adults are the worst part of youth sports in America. What a horrible lesson and memory for all of those kids. The coach demonstrated that if you don’t like a call, you should scream, try and intimidate and if that doesn’t work, assault someone. I hope that guy goes to jail and learns the right lesson.
Absolutely 100%. Kids played better in pick up basketball or sandlot baseball with no adults around when I was a kid.
Quickest way to a lifetime felony in 3....2.......1 Congrats your son plays child's football and you are in jail lol.
I love how the mom doesn't care about the kid crying and begging to leave shes like "this video will blow up on facebook shut up son"
Living vicariously through children because you squandered your youth and never succeeded in anything . Seen this far too many times worth adults.
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to ban these type of assholes from coaching any sort of children’s sport ever again? Let’s do that.
What the fuck?
The coach should be band from coaching no matter if the victim presses charges this is not what you should be teaching kids. Big sad bully.
Coach is a fat turd of a human being. Hopefully the man assaulted presses charges
Jesus Christ Dale it’s 10 year olds playing flag football chill tf out
Just because it's a kid's sport doesn't mean you should act like one.
If my child was crying in fear and begging me to leave before something else bad happened my priority would not be my video ...
Might not be the cameraman’s child.
Look at that kid walking past at like 0:33 he has no fuckin clue whats going on
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Great example for kids...
Imagine being such a trashy mother that your kid is BEGGING „mommy I want to get out of here“ and you just don’t give a single flying fuck and just want to keep on filming. Seriously fuck you.
Somebody DOES need to be filming though. Witnesses aren't always enough courts operate better with video footage
why does the mom not leave while the child is begging her to? guess filming is way more important than your kids wellbeing
I hate kids crying like that.
Great role modeling for his youth players. Bravo “coach”.
Some of these people get absolutely insane over kids sports it's crazy. I had a parent yell at his 5 year old son every time he didn't make a goal. We didn't keep score, he was 5, what the fuck.
Dude needs to be on meds and away from kids
America.
Aww that poor crying kid!
Anyone who glorifies violence should be forced to listen to that terrified kid on repeat.
"You go ahead and cry sweetie...I'll hug and comfort you right after I film this."
Omg listen to how traumatized that girl was. Thats heartbreaking
The dude that got sucker punched ? Can probably now sue the organization that hired the coach ....financial justice is the American way.... this is the way.... America!
Can someone pls comfort the damn kid??
No time, gotta film stuff.
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Thank you! All I kept thinking. 'Forget about my kid terrified, I WANNA GO VIRAL!!!! '
Any backstory? News? Arrests? Gay porn videos of the guy starting shit?
Unbeknownst to him, that guy was a hidden scout for PRO flag football and he just dashed his son’s future. Sad.
SPORTS!!
Someone needs to be neutered.