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Originally Posted by Sainters7
Glad to hear the ref did that anyway. Said this before, but I recently used to work spring hockey tournaments for about 5 years (as an arena coordinator/point of contact, not a ref), and some of the abuse hurled at refs I've witnessed - especially teenage ones - is beyond embarrassing. Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of nice parents at those events. But there's also "those" types of parents, sadly they're not rare either.
The part that really gets me is they're usually not rubadub-looking types either, but well-dressed, clearly well-to-do people with I assume good, influential jobs. Just seems extra gross some of the leaders driving our economy are such asshats to refs who look like they're in grade 9. It's shameful, and a little scary frankly
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I don't have kids, so I don't see it first hand, but I have friends on both sides of the fence economically and my general observations are the ones with money are a lot worst when it comes to sports than the ones who don't have it. I can't even listen to it sometimes anymore because all they do is talk about their kids sports and do so in a manner as if they are professional athletes. It's never "Tommy" has a game this weekend. It's "We" have a game this weekend or "we" won. They also seem a lot more involved with the politics of the sports likes and willing to move around to different associations if they don't get what they want. It's never their kid needs to improve and get better, it's "We" were wronged by team X or association X.
They seem to develop this attitude that because they spend X amount of dollars, have send their kids to X camp, bought X amount of high end equipment, and other parents haven't that there's no way their kids are inferior to someone else's on the sporting field.
Also, because they spend so much time at work (lawyers, CPAs, MBAs) etc. they live vicariously through these sports because it's sometimes the only interaction they have with their kids and, as a result, nothing but success will be accepted.
Could be way off base and i'm clearly generalizing, but that's the sense I get in dealing with my friends who have kids in sports. My friends with blue collar jobs are way more chill when it comes to their kids sports than those who are not. It's just not as important to them.