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)
UPDATE:Â CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE STORY & VIDEO
28 responses to “a message from the red-headed momma…”
I thought the same thing when I saw it. It’s an instinctive thing to want to do but you should show some restraint, especially if someone has a video camera around.
I agree. Not “right” or “correct” but instinctive.
I’m a bitch so I would likely work to get the kid thrown off the team, etc.
P.S. Thank you for saying I’m talented. ;-)
That was a shocker of a story wasn’t it? My reaction was like yours on the first thought. Oh, ‘one of THOSE parents’, but then after some thought, there have been a few times in my kid’s very short lived sports lives that I’d like to have tripped a few kids at least.
He was charged with felony child abuse, the coach. I dunno about that (not that he should be off scott free)….on the other hand you have all these luzers out there that ARE felony child abusers thumbing their noses at the law.
WTF?
I wonder how the Mom of the Italian soccer player felt when the French soccer player decided to head butt him in the chest for no reason.
I don’t question his motives, but I definitely question his ability to control himself.
i agree that it is instinct, but again, control is the key here. The kid needs to learn how to fight his own battles too.
My daughter plays soccer and it gets VERY rough out there. But the worst she ever got was from a girl who ended up later being one of her TEAMMATES and now i like the girl. So there is something to be said about control.
Is there an article about this on the internet?
are you high?
My son and I take karate together. He is a Jr Black Belt and I’m a Red belt, so we are in advanced classes with kids that should know better. Unfortunatly, you always have one asshole who thinks it’s funny to knock the youngest black belt on his ass just because he can. It’s really REALLY hard for me to stay out of “mama mode” sometimes. Usually what I do is grab that kid when we switch sparring partners, then I let him know what’s what, within the confines of “But we were sparring” (ha). Funny thing is, that instinct doesn’t stopw ith just my own kid. I’m very protective of all “my” kids in that class.
Dear God. This is why I really secretly hope that my son is gay and I’ll only have to worry about finding him shoes and a handbag to match his evening gown. LOL. Seriously. I really hope that I never have to make *that* judgement call. I’d probably have pummeled the stupid kid….
I coach little league in a “coach pitch” league. There are ways to get back at the kids who act up, but they must be resisted, no matter how much I might feel I need the inside corner of the plate.
How did I miss seeing that one? I know when a little punk kid teased my little girl last year I went to the bus stop I threatened to run him over with my Durango. Imagine if I saw someone physically hurt her! It’d be time to off-road, baby. (just kidding)
I have practice figuring out what you are saying and what it means. I have spent several drunk nights with you.
LOL! I read it, every word. And I’m thinkin…would I? Wouldn’t I? years ago when my kid was 5 he was getting beat up daily by the neighborhood bully. big kid with a big mom. I went to the mom and tried to talk to her but…nope. Didn’t work. So I enrolled my little 5 year old in Karate’. Few months later he kicked the snot outa the bully and the bullies mom had the nerve to come to me to complain. I told her same thing she told me. “Kids will be kids.”
Crabby, that is hysterical!
Nobody beats the crap out of my children, but me!! and Jamie…I hear ya with the off roading…no kidding!
and yes, he is being charged which pisses me off because I bet’cha his parents are pricks too.
Whoa…need up the dosage on my meds. I’m all a mean ass now huh?
http://www.kcra.com/news/9786913/detail.html
I see all sides of this issue. The way I would deal with this would be to find the child’s parents and rip THEM a new one. I wouldn’t physically assault the kid no matter how strong the urge. I’d go after his mom and pull HER hair out. ;) But, seriously, I likely would scream and yell, but I wouldn’t assault the kid.
We had a similar situation with my son when he was about 5 or 6 in baseball. He was playing catcher and he was standing on home plate. This kid was rounding third (he was seriously a foot taller than my son) and there was NO play at the plate. Instead of just running to home and sticking his foot on the plate where my kid was standing, he just lifted up his fists and tackled my little boy. We about came unglued on the whole situation. My son is laying flat on his back. He didn’t cry initially because the air was knocked out of him. That scared the shit out of me. Then, he laid there crying. We all run out there, Army of Dad is yelling and their coach tries to pick a fight with my husband and tells him to take it to the parking lot!!! Over this. Then, the commissioner of the league is standing there and tells US to calm down!!! Their coach threatens us, their kid railed over my kid for no good reason and she tells US to calm down.
That league shut down about a year later because the commissioner was embezzling money. Go figure.
I pulled my daughter from a soccer team a few years ago because the majority of the teams parents were idiots and yelling and screaming at their daughters to hurry the hell up and blah blah blah..one girl was so out of breath and it was about 105..she came to the side to get water and her idiot mom told her to get her ass back out there, forget the water..
I have zero tolerance for that shit. Theses girls were 6 years old..they wanted to have fun, make friends and learn a sport.
yeah, i have to say I’d like to know the whole story. I get ticked when aggressive kids push my child on the playground. I could see myself beating a child for being mean to my own. It’s hardwired into us, isn’t it?
I can’t even begin to think what I would do. I’ve started this comment about six times and I range from wanting to beat the shit out of the Late Hitter’s parents to…well, alright, pretty much just wanting to beat the shit out of the Late Hitter’s parents.
I watched the video. WOW. I don’t know. If someone hurts my kid, I’d probably charge, but I don’t know if I could hit another kid. I’d probably go after the parents. ??? Hell if I know.
I can see the justification of the dad hitting the kid but it does not make it right. He was also the assistant coach so he needs to set an example for the other kids as well.
I saw your link from Janas blog and watched that yesterday, then it was all over the news last night. I have to say I may’ve been tempted too, lol….but not in front of cameras (heehee).
No seriously tho…I woulda went right up to his parents and told then if he touches my kid like that again me and you’s gonna have problems…that was totally uncalled for what the kid did it was clearly done to be a little prick cuz they were losing or whatever.
When I was a kid in softball we won the championships (that one year) and it was a battle into extra innings and everything. We were in the 8th grade, when we lined up to give high fives one of our girls got it right across the face. If that was my girl, I’da put the smackdown on her parents IF nothing was done. Screw that, if you cant’ bring your kids up right, i’ll do it for you! lol
I had the same reaction, and would like to think I would instantly be on hand to defend my kids if they were being attacked..
BUT
In this case the direct “danger” (not that there really was any “danger”, maybe the worst that could’ve happened was a busted lip on the son) was over. What the dad did was retaliate on the other kid, and take revenge for hitting his son. There was no real “protection” or “defense” involved or necessary. There were likely dozens of other parents nearby that would’ve prevented the son being truly hurt by the other boy. The dad acted out his rage at his son getting a very cheap shot.
I will admit, after seeing the kid that made the cheap shot interviewed on the Today show this morning…well, let’s say he’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer and what he did was about the highest level of thinking he was capable of.
Yeah…I saw the late hit kid on Today and he’s an idiot. But what the dad did was inexcusable in my book.
That is absolutely crazy!
yikes. had no idea about this but there has to be a lesson about self control or something here.
or not. cause if someone knocked my baby down i may have done the same thing.
I don’t know how I would have re-acted, maybe I won’t let Pan go out for Football. I had a hard enough time watching my baby brother’s games…don’t know what kind of football momma I’d make.
Hmmm, I don’t have kids on my own, but I sure get ticked off when I see other kids (usually older) picking on my three year old nephew.
I pretty much fall on the he should have shown restraint and then taken action against the kid later, but then again, sometimes you just react.