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[quote=Anonymous]Just returned from my kid's basketball game, and I have to say, I tend to agree with OP. The school our team played tonight (they are both public) is located at the outskirts of the county, is bad academically and facilities-wise but pretty decent at the sport. So we knew going in that we would probably lose, especially since our team is young and doesn't have any seniors on, so, whatever, right? It's a regular high school game, not an Olympic final, right?

HA!

Long story short, I've never witnessed worse parent behavior at any school sports event in my life (and my child plays AAU, so we've been around quite a lot). There was this woman sitting at the bottom bench who would scream bloody murder non-stop at the ref, her own child (with instructions) and at the players on our team for god-knows-what. Her friend two rows up, also female, would squeal like a pig at each ball turnover. At one point the first woman got in a verbal altercation with one of the players, and then the player's mother started screaming back and was removed from the stands. The original screamer, somehow, wasn't removed, possibly because it was a home game for them, so she got up, elated, and started jumping up and down, dancing and prancing, even before their team won, as they eventually did. Seriously?

I honestly think this behavior stems from people having nothing worthwhile going on in their lives so they're celebrating their kid's lame free throw as if said kid just received a Nobel/Pulitzer/Oscar/ - or an NBA trophy -and while doing that, they need to put other players down. This is ridiculous and pretty off-putting. And the funny thing is, the kids themselves, players and spectators alike, usually behave well, it's their idiot parents who act trashy.

Rant over. Flame away.
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