Which sport do you think breeds the most obnoxious parents and why?

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Best to worst parents-
Basketball
Football
Hockey
Crew
Lacrosse

In our experience the SES is inversely proportional to this list (basketball families with the lowest SES).

What about soccer?

Updated list-

Rec basketball
Travel basketball
Football
Hockey
Travel hockey
Crew
Rec soccer
Travel soccer
Rec lacrosse
Travel lacrosse

What about track &/or cross country? XC kids tend to be really nice & welcoming, not sure about the parents, though.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I really do think that swimming parents are pretty nice. There is a supportive "team" atmosphere and everybody cheers for everyone. The bigger kids cheer for the little kids and support them.

Probably because there is a timer determining 'the best' and not subjectiveness on team selections. Parents can't argue the clock.

Ahhh, you are right. That could be a big part of it.

Same with track & cross country. No drama over who is the “best”. & everyone cheers for other kids to get PRs.

[Anonymous]

This one is easy around here. Riding/equestrian. EASILY.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nope, all of you. It's fencing.

I agree. My DD fences and I've never seen such uptight Type A parents. Even the fencers cry and have mini temper tantrums. I am sure it b/c their parents put the pressure on them big time to win, win, win.

I would expect fencing parents to be of the rennaisance faire ilk, not uptight at all. Weird and whimsical, not type A

I did fencing for a month or so and I *HATED* it. The kids and parents were horribly uptight/mean and there was no sense of team--it was every kid (and parent) for him/herself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This one is easy around here. Riding/equestrian. EASILY.

Completely agree. We attended one meet when a kid was interested in riding. We almost ran from the place. It was absolutely toxic. And this wasn't even a big event.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This one is easy around here. Riding/equestrian. EASILY.

As an equestrian myself, I totally agree. The hunter ring is the worst. These parents with kids who can barely ride buy $100k ponies that the trainer schools in the warm up ring and then pop the kid on right before entering the class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This one is easy around here. Riding/equestrian. EASILY.

As an equestrian myself, I totally agree. The hunter ring is the worst. These parents with kids who can barely ride buy $100k ponies that the trainer schools in the warm up ring and then pop the kid on right before entering the class.

I'm from Leesburg and my godmother was a former nationally ranked equestrian/national team member who taught riding lessons out there, and the stories she had were CRAZY.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This one is easy around here. Riding/equestrian. EASILY.

Completely agree. We attended one meet when a kid was interested in riding. We almost ran from the place. It was absolutely toxic. And this wasn't even a big event.

It's the parents *and* the kids. Just awful. Talk about entitlement and every person for themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a bunch of BS. Which sports breeds the most obnoxious parents? Probably the same mysterious thing applies to people whom arrive at ridiculous conclusions such as these. Unless you have been to everyone of these sports, consistently, as a parent, why rely on such generalizations? Serial rapists? Wealthy? And to think that these same people make up a jury pool.....wow.

Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love to watch lax , but the talent pool is white rich kids so they would not be considered great athletes. They would look spastic if they were thrown into a college basketball , football game or a college track meet. They are under a hilarious illusion that they are highly athletic lol.

Man, what a complete *sshole you are. And quite racist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is absolutely asinine. I've have kids that play club lacrosse on both the guys and boys sides for years and the idea that people get dressed up for lacrosse games is stupid. Most people are in a combination of jeans and t-shirt or work-out type clothes. No one is ever dressed up. Why would anyone get dressed up in order to go to some random park in Howard County, Annapolis, Ocean City, suburban Delaware, or upstate New York? Club lacrosse games and tournaments are not in glamorous destinations aside from the random Vail tournaments some of the middle school teams play in. The idea that there is a lax "scene" where moms get dressed up is totally made-up.

Agreed. I've never seen anyone dressed up except for a mom or dad picking their kids up from practice on their way home from work. Which happens in every sport. When my son played youth football, there was one team where all the moms put on way too much makeup and jewelry and wore expensive matching shirts to every game. I hated them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is funny. I would have guessed lacrosse too, except that I have one child in lacrosse and one in soccer.

By far, the lacrosse parents are more friendly, down to earth, encouraging to everyone on the team, and chill.

The soccer parents are a f-ing nightmare. I've seen parents kicked out of games after storming onto the field to yell at the ref/coach. I've seen parents show up with their kids 20 minutes after the game started, and immediately demand that they be subbed in to their preferred position NOW. I've seen parents yell at kids (their own and others) for missing a ball. I've seen parents pull all kinds of strings to form one "good" team in the league that kicks every other team's a**. Did I mention these are 8 year olds in a rec league?

I'm seriously considering pulling my son out of soccer because I'm tired of dealing with the parents. By contrast, the lacrosse team has been a pleasure to hang out with.

Thank you.

[Anonymous]

We were very thankful that our boys dropped baseball. The parents weren't obnoxious but boy were they drunk by the end of the game. I was always tempted to call 911 before they started driving out of the parking lot. It was horrible. In retrospect I should have called.

[Anonymous]

IME dance and theater outdoes all the sports I've seen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am just curious. My son is playing a sport this year that he has never played so its new for us...but I have never seen parents that are so full of themselves,think their kids are greatest, in my life. All the moms are dressed (not all to be fair) extremely well but not necessarily what one thinks of when dressing for a game. The dads all appear to be connected financial types with big egos. I don't want to bash the sport as he is having a ball, and we are so happy to see him having fun but it did get me thinking. My D played tennis so my exposure to competitive sports was limited.

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