a message from the red-headed momma…
The news has been focused on ‘Crikey!’s death and it’s sad and I almost cried because I liked him. He was real, honest and passionate about what he did. I thought he was so over the top and it was all a show until I started seeing the 700 interviews he did with everyone and I realized years ago, ‘that dude is just juked up on life and really happy with it!’ and you have to respect that.
That’s not what this post is about. This post is about the dad that ran out on the field at a pop-warner football game and knocked down a kid that just did a WAY late hit on his son.
I’ve watched this video where the kid with the ball gets tackled and like 4 long seconds later out of nowhere this kid just comes and blasts this other kid that was NO WHERE near the ball. The kid was being a dick. Then out of NO WHERE comes the assistant coach (who is also the father of the kid that just knocked down) and just NAILS the kid from behind and the kid goes flying.
At first I thought, “OMG, I can’t believe he did that!” and since I then I have watched it like 10 times (our news sucks, right now I am watching a band of four old men playing dixie music on banjoes) and the more I watch it…the more my parental crap kicks in and I think, “I might very well have done the same damn thing.” (Yes, I said that outloud…the dog is watching me from the door and If I read to her she doesn’t chew up things)
Wouldn’t you? I mean…yes, the kid is in a sport where he’s going to get knocked down…but we don’t know the back story behind the little shit that did the late hit. He very well might have been a little prick the whole game doing stuff like that and the parent (who is also the assistant coach…heee hee, I almost wrote couch) decided he just needed to be knocked in the grass.
Who knows…but I think I might be a parent like that…one that would tackle a kid on a field for being mean to my kid.
Probably a good thing my kids don’t play sports huh?
(if you made it through this post and had any idea what I was talking about and followed what I said…wow, you are more talented than I give you credit for)