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TXCyclones

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This is really rough to watch. After the game was over at this church rec league it appears that players and coaches came off the bench to confront one of the refs. The ref required 30 stiches. It should be pretty easy for police to identify the attackers, and I hope that some sort of punishment occurs. I feel bad for the ref as he's in a no-win situation, as he cannot hit an underaged kid until he's first struck by them. Just sad.


 
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TXCyclones said:
This is really rough to watch. After the game was over at this church rec league it appears that players and coaches came off the bench to confront one of the refs. The ref required 30 stiches. It should be pretty easy for police to identify the attackers, and I hope that some sort of punishment occurs. I feel bad for the ref as he's in a no-win situation, as he cannot hit an underaged kid until he's first struck by them. Just sad.


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Hope the one laughing at it by the camera gets a good whack in the face themselves to see how funny they think that is.
 
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Some of the comments are disturbing as well, not that anyone would be surprised by that nowadays. One of them said something like, "If you haven't been screwed over by a ref you shouldn't comment because you don't understand."

One of my crew mates was assaulted after a post-season game in Waterloo several years ago. He's 6-7 and a former college football player. I'm 5-9 and our other partner was 5-6, so I don't know why he chose him. The school's AD, who was also a pretty big dude, took the guy down and held him on the ground so we could get to our car. Unfortunately most of my peers have at least one story like this.
 
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Some of the comments are disturbing as well, not that anyone would be surprised by that nowadays. One of them said something like, "If you haven't been screwed over by a ref you shouldn't comment because you don't understand."

One of my crew mates was assaulted after a post-season game in Waterloo several years ago. He's 6-7 and a former college football player. I'm 5-9 and our other partner was 5-6, so I don't know why he chose him. The school's AD, who was also a pretty big dude, took the guy down and held him on the ground so we could get to our car. Unfortunately most of my peers have at least one story like this.
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The guy on twitter blamed the other refs for not helping? We really do live in a clown world. Anything to deflect responsibility.
 
ruxCYtable said:
Some of the comments are disturbing as well, not that anyone would be surprised by that nowadays. One of them said something like, "If you haven't been screwed over by a ref you shouldn't comment because you don't understand."

One of my crew mates was assaulted after a post-season game in Waterloo several years ago. He's 6-7 and a former college football player. I'm 5-9 and our other partner was 5-6, so I don't know why he chose him. The school's AD, who was also a pretty big dude, took the guy down and held him on the ground so we could get to our car. Unfortunately most of my peers have at least one story like this.
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I mean this in all sincerity, when I heard about the coach that assaulted the ref in the high school game in central Iowa I read that in Florida, anytime a ref is assaulted it's classified as felony assault straight away. This should be on the books in Iowa, period.

This is unfortunately part of a larger trend in anti-social behavior in general in society. But if we want to have refs for these games, we need to curb this immediately. I've coached a lot of little league, and we had our coaches meeting a few weeks ago where they stressed, most of the new refs quit after the first year and the vast majority of the time the reason cited is how mean parents and coaches are to them. Many games this year will have only one umpire instead of two because they can't keep a full staff of them.

These kids are usually 14 years old when they start umpiring.
 
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Macloney said:
I don't get it. What is at play?
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If those were your kids/players (as a coach, admin whatever) would you have done something or would you have just strolled around (possibly not sure if the adult that strolls out late in the video is involved or not)? Someone with what should be authority is getting chased and beaten and no one does a thing and/or laughs.

That's a culture thing that is not happening anywhere I have ever been.
 
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