What is your worst sports parent story?

[Anonymous]

A parent who took her carpool group back to hotel so they could prepare, get psyched then get their needed rest. The other members of the team attended a planned dinner.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A parent who took her carpool group back to hotel so they could prepare, get psyched then get their needed rest. The other members of the team attended a planned dinner.

What’s so bad about that?

[Anonymous]

Parent on a rec basketball team yelling at my kid (15, referee) and calling him a moron when he didn't call a foul. It was astonishing, the level of personal investment this fool had in a game among 7-year-olds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents on the other team called a girl on our soccer team a "moose" because she is a taller, bigger boned girl (and an EXCELLENT soccer player...)

Had a mom say, "can't teach a cow how to slide" at a softball game once. Girl was sliding into 2nd and got tagged out.

[Anonymous]

1st grade rec soccer. Mom of a teammate spent the first half of the game screaming at our coach that her kid should be playing more or in a different position. Then, when her kid was playing, stormed the field to scream at and cuss out the ref, threatened the opposing coach. Cops were called, game was put on hold until she was gone.

4th grade rec soccer (different league). Asst coach's kid was a nightmare - constantly yelling at teammates, blaming them for everything that went wrong, threw a fit if he had to rotate through a position he didn't like. Saw him throw a water bottle at a teammate on more than one occasion because "you screwed up and let the ball through, it's your fault they got that goal!". Asst coach thought it was funny and cheered him on, talked about what a "leader" his kid was. When I got on his case about his kid throwing water bottles, it was all "oh he's just trying to get their attention, he didn't mean to hit anyone".

My kids no longer play soccer, they got so tired of obnoxious adults they switched sports. I have plenty more stories, those are just the must egregious two.

[Anonymous]

My coworkers kid went on to play D1 in his individual sport but she told me that he would be called the N-word by parents all the time. Never directly to him but often just loud enough to be heard or when they were talking to their kid (e.g. don’t lose to that n-word). Her and her husband never would say anything and just told their kid to respond by playing well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A parent who took her carpool group back to hotel so they could prepare, get psyched then get their needed rest. The other members of the team attended a planned dinner.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My coworkers kid went on to play D1 in his individual sport but she told me that he would be called the N-word by parents all the time. Never directly to him but often just loud enough to be heard or when they were talking to their kid (e.g. don’t lose to that n-word). Her and her husband never would say anything and just told their kid to respond by playing well.

Why wouldn’t they speak up? Wtf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parent on a rec basketball team yelling at my kid (15, referee) and calling him a moron when he didn't call a foul. It was astonishing, the level of personal investment this fool had in a game among 7-year-olds.

I was a softball ump as a teen and I definitely had similar experiences.

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Anonymous wrote:My coworkers kid went on to play D1 in his individual sport but she told me that he would be called the N-word by parents all the time. Never directly to him but often just loud enough to be heard or when they were talking to their kid (e.g. don’t lose to that n-word). Her and her husband never would say anything and just told their kid to respond by playing well.

Why wouldn’t they speak up? Wtf

From what she said, they would say something to tournament or facility directors but they didn’t confront parents. Also in part so not to distract their kid from their game. But this was in the late 80s and 90s too so a diff time.

[Anonymous]

Rec basketball game. 5th graders - all skill levels. Volunteer coach dad would roll his eyes when a less skilled player from his team was on the court. The kid was a really good kid and put his all into the game but was just not as athletic as the others. Jerk coach dad was so arrogant he probably thought no one saw him rolling his eyes at the poor kid - or maybe he didn't care? But we all saw, even the poor kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rec basketball game. 5th graders - all skill levels. Volunteer coach dad would roll his eyes when a less skilled player from his team was on the court. The kid was a really good kid and put his all into the game but was just not as athletic as the others. Jerk coach dad was so arrogant he probably thought no one saw him rolling his eyes at the poor kid - or maybe he didn't care? But we all saw, even the poor kid.

Oh gosh the horror!

[Anonymous]

Rec basketball. Unhinged mom walked over and screamed at my four-year-old when he spontaneously cheered for his older sister who scored for the first time (her child had been beaten to the basket and their team was losing). She eventually got ejected.

My kids have done years of travel sports and I’ve never seen parental behavior anywhere as bad as what I saw in rec sports.

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Anonymous wrote:Rec basketball game. 5th graders - all skill levels. Volunteer coach dad would roll his eyes when a less skilled player from his team was on the court. The kid was a really good kid and put his all into the game but was just not as athletic as the others. Jerk coach dad was so arrogant he probably thought no one saw him rolling his eyes at the poor kid - or maybe he didn't care? But we all saw, even the poor kid.

Oh gosh the horror!

Hi Ken T.

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Anonymous wrote:I witnessed one dad screaming at his kid during hockey travel try outs - literally yelling at his kid (who fell) to get up and get back in the game. It was awful. Of course it turns out that dad was a coach.

I'm having a little trouble with what's so bad about this one? Why wouldn't you want him to get up and get back into the game? It's hockey, faliing/checking is part of the game, what else should he do?

Uh, the screaming part?

That's kind of subjective, not to mention that you are separated by the glass panels at a hockey rink. It's not a soccer pitch where you can hear everything. Uh.