Brawl between parents at minor hockey game

[RedMileDJ]

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/03/25...or-hockey-game

A brawl between parents during a minor hockey game in Tweed, Ont., is an “embarrassment” says the president of the Tweed Minor Hockey Association.

A two-minute video of the fight has been posted on YouTube and shows parents from both sides yelling obscenities back and forth before escalating into fisticuffs. In one scene, a man wearing a white baseball repeatedly punches another man in the head until another jumps in, only to be pulled off by another man swinging punches.

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[RedMileDJ]

Is it me, or is this becoming more and more common? Maybe not fights like this, but parents and adults that get really abusive and angry during minor and kids sports events.

Maybe only because it's being caught on camera. I don't know.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Games between teams from the reserve and teams from the cities were always racist filled riots, it warms my heart to see nothing has changed.

[PsYcNeT]

A two-minute video of the fight has been posted on YouTube and shows parents from both sides yelling obscenities back and forth before escalating into fisticuffs. In one scene, a man wearing a white baseball repeatedly punches another man in the head until another jumps in, only to be pulled off by another man swinging punches.

I'd be pretty freaked out if this dude was punching me.

[Minnie]

Sometimes, I really hate people.

[Teh_Bandwagoner]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

I'd be pretty freaked out if this dude was punching me.

The brawl and the video, which had almost 14,000 views by mid-day Monday, have caught the attention police.

Don't worry. The Attention Police! will surely suppress this baseball-faced menace.

[Flabbibulin]

Wow, you'd think that one guy would know better than to try and get in on it from the low ground...

Spoiler!

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Red-Mile-DJ

Is it me, or is this becoming more and more common? Maybe not fights like this, but parents and adults that get really abusive and angry during minor and kids sports events.

Maybe only because it's being caught on camera. I don't know.

Probably not, but recording and posting is more common than 5-10 yrs ago.

It is odd, my daughter played in the same league as Hobbema, you could not ask for a better group of parents. They were fair, honest and cheered for both teams, even when the games got heated.

That being said, I have heard about novice games with fights in the stands. The problem is "never was" parents. The parents that were successful at sport often are the most laid back.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Ahh the parents who live their lives through their kids. Is there anything more pathetic?

[cDnStealth]

Bunch of losers. What a pathetic display.

[Dion]

Ban these people for life from minor hockey rinks!

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

Ahh the parents who live their lives through their kids. Is there anything more pathetic?

It's what drives spring hockey.

[Hevishot]

Wow. It is going to come to a point where parents will only be allowed to drop their kids off and pick them up from the game and the only adults allowed to be there will be the coaches and refs.

[Bagor]

Funny timing as I had to tell a fellow parent and friend to relax and calm to fata down yesterday during our kids' novice playoff game as he was getting borderline abusive towards the refs.

A grown man yelling abuse at a couple of 14ish year old kids at an U-8 game of hockey. That's one stop away from sitting on the escalator in the mall.

[Derek Sutton]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

It's what drives spring hockey.

Please explain, why the bias against spring hockey?

[Derek Sutton]

There was a case like this in Lethbridge earlier in Febuary. It was essential a fight involving hockey Moms and it was Bantam house league. The cops were called to the rink, one lady had chunks of hair pulled out of her scalp by two or more other women, as well as punched exchanged and the usual BS. The cops did not lay any charges stating that were too many peopl e involved to proove anyone gulity, witnesses statred sending videos into the Police and after a couple of weeks they began their investigation, don't know where it has gone from there though. Anyways two days later Lethbridge Minor Hockey sent out emails stating their teams are not to play any more games against teams from the Reserve.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Derek Sutton

Please explain, why the bias against spring hockey?

I can't comment on spring hockey in Calgary, but up here I don't think it is a good thing. It has no governing body, it is not sanctioned by Hockey Alberta. There is a coach for a spring hockey team that is banned from coaching in his local association. So the association has deemed him unworthy of coaching kids, yet, he can coach spring hockey because it falls outside of Hockey Alberta. I think it is dangerous and unsafe.

I believe it preys on parent's belief that their kids are "going to the show". In reality minor hockey's job is to produce the best crop of beer league players. Again, I can not speak for Calgary, but locally they are kids making the spring teams that played B level hockey. The programs present themselves as "cream of the crop" but pick players who's parents have means. Up here we have dynamite level spring hockey, born 2006, I think it's nuts.

It is interesting that when scouts ask about a kid one of the things they ask is does he/she play other sports, not does he/she play spring hockey. I think kids are well served to play other sports, my boy is playing lacrosse (and would pick it over hockey) and my girl is playing rugby.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Derek Sutton

There was a case like this in Lethbridge earlier in Febuary. It was essential a fight involving hockey Moms and it was Bantam house league. The cops were called to the rink, one lady had chunks of hair pulled out of her scalp by two or more other women, as well as punched exchanged and the usual BS. The cops did not lay any charges stating that were too many peopl e involved to proove anyone gulity, witnesses statred sending videos into the Police and after a couple of weeks they began their investigation, don't know where it has gone from there though. Anyways two days later Lethbridge Minor Hockey sent out emails stating their teams are not to play any more games against teams from the Reserve.

and that is sad.

[Buff]

Originally Posted by Derek Sutton

There was a case like this in Lethbridge earlier in Febuary. It was essential a fight involving hockey Moms and it was Bantam house league. The cops were called to the rink, one lady had chunks of hair pulled out of her scalp by two or more other women, as well as punched exchanged and the usual BS. The cops did not lay any charges stating that were too many peopl e involved to proove anyone gulity, witnesses statred sending videos into the Police and after a couple of weeks they began their investigation, don't know where it has gone from there though. Anyways two days later Lethbridge Minor Hockey sent out emails stating their teams are not to play any more games against teams from the Reserve.

http://lethnews.com/crime/police-ask...ams-ice-arena/

I hadn't heard about the email that Lethbridge Minor Hockey sent out. I'll ask my friend about this. He is from the reserve and his son was playing games in Lethbridge earlier this month.

[valo403]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

I can't comment on spring hockey in Calgary, but up here I don't think it is a good thing. It has no governing body, it is not sanctioned by Hockey Alberta. There is a coach for a spring hockey team that is banned from coaching in his local association. So the association has deemed him unworthy of coaching kids, yet, he can coach spring hockey because it falls outside of Hockey Alberta. I think it is dangerous and unsafe.

I believe it preys on parent's belief that their kids are "going to the show". In reality minor hockey's job is to produce the best crop of beer league players. Again, I can not speak for Calgary, but locally they are kids making the spring teams that played B level hockey. The programs present themselves as "cream of the crop" but pick players who's parents have means. Up here we have dynamite level spring hockey, born 2006, I think it's nuts.

It is interesting that when scouts ask about a kid one of the things they ask is does he/she play other sports, not does he/she play spring hockey. I think kids are well served to play other sports, my boy is playing lacrosse (and would pick it over hockey) and my girl is playing rugby.

All of this may be perfectly true, but you made a blanket statement above based upon what appears to be pretty scant support. There are plenty of things that drive spring hockey, some of it is certainly parents with a desire to live through their kids, but plenty of it is kids who want to play hockey year round and a host of other potential reasons. You can't paint everyone with a brush simply because some people have the wrong motivations.

Would you take the same view of parents of kids in Australia or South Africa who play rugby year round?