Dad pulls gun on son's football coach

[LoKyBuckeye]

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Dad pulls gun on son's football coach

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The father of a young football player pulled a gun on his son's coach because he didn't think the boy was getting enough playing time, Philadelphia police said on Monday.

Wayne Derkotch, 40, was charged with aggravated assault after getting in a fight with the coach over the amount of time the boy was getting on the field at a game for 6- and 7-year-olds on Sunday morning, said police spokesman Officer Raul Malveiro.

"There was a physical altercation about what child should play or not play and then he pulled the gun," Malveiro said.

There were no injuries and Derkotch fled before being arrested after a complaint was made by the coach, whose name was not released, Malveiro said.

Parental behavior at children's sports events has come under scrutiny from groups such as the Citizenship Through Sports Alliance. The group's study gave parents a D grade for their conduct and involvement at kids' games.

An Internet straw poll of nearly 3,000 by the U.S. Web-based Center for Sports Parenting (http://www.internationalsport.com/csp/index.cfm) found that 85 percent of the participants had witnessed parents or coaches becoming verbally abusive during games. Forty percent had seen physical abuse.

 

[NightmaresDad]

It was only a matter of time.

I had a parent get in my face right after a game this year - the worst part was that he didn't have a CLUE what he was talking about.
The second worst part was that he was on the Board of the organization, so he was given a free pass for hsi behavior.
It's probably the last year for us with this organization.

 

[Saw31]

So now we need metal detectors at peewee football? Fuckin' what the fuck?...

 

[ScarletBlood31]

Sounds reasonable .

 

[Mike80]

There is the reason I refuse to umpire anything lower than High School baseball anymore.

I used to umpire everything from little league to Colt, but the friggin nutzo parents didn't like that I wouldn't allow their kids to throw their helmets and bats during the game....

I hate stories like these. These idiot parents who are living vicariously through the kids are going to ruin the game for the kids.

 

[ScarletBlood31]

There is the reason I refuse to umpire anything lower than High School baseball anymore.

I used to umpire everything from little league to Colt, but the friggin nutzo parents didn't like that I wouldn't allow their kids to throw their helmets and bats during the game....

I hate stories like these. These idiot parents who are living vicariously through the kids are going to ruin the game for the kids.

I don't know if I could deal with it for a career, but I would almost think that dealing with these parents would be kind of funny because they would have no authority whatsoever, and laughing in their face about it and telling them to shut up and go to the sidelines.

 

[Mike80]

I don't know if I could deal with it for a career, but I would almost think that dealing with these parents would be kind of funny because they would have no authority whatsoever, and laughing in their face about it and telling them to shut up and go to the sidelines.

Yeah but that only works for so long. It gets to the point that going to the ballpark isn't fun anymore.

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

It was only a matter of time.

I had a parent get in my face right after a game this year - the worst part was that he didn't have a CLUE what he was talking about.
The second worst part was that he was on the Board of the organization, so he was given a free pass for hsi behavior.
It's probably the last year for us with this organization.

you coach in Sayre?

 

[OH10]

Why are we putting the blame on the dad here? Clearly, the coach should have given his son more playing time.

 

[DEBuckeye]

Ah, Philly.... The city of brotherly gunshot wounds. I live about 40 min. south of Philly, so we get their news channels. Every day- literally- there is a shooting or stabbing, and most of them are murder. As of 10/18, there have been 320 murders this year. This coach is lucky he wasn't shot & killed.

 

[bearonu]

Ah, Philly.... The city of brotherly gunshot wounds. I live about 40 min. south of Philly, so we get their news channels. Every day- literally- there is a shooting or stabbing, and most of them are murder. As of 10/18, there have been 320 murders this year. This coach is lucky he wasn't shot & killed.

Yeah, but to be fair, most of those shootings and stabbings always occur in the same area - North and West Philly. Just stay the hell out of those two areas like everybody else does and you'll be fine. Those places have the "don't even stop at the stop signs if you have the misfortune of being caught there' golden rule

 

[martinss01]

i thought there were laws in place that forced all players to play the exact same amount of time at every position on the field, and every child must score no more or less points than anyone else and the final score of the game must result in a tie... sounds to me like something is fishy with this story. clearly the coach and probably the league are guilty of some form of criminal act...

 

[jimotis4heisman]

kids parents are screwed up...parents coach the teams. how many loser ass coaches have you guys had? probably more than good ones. do you pull a gun? what does that teach the kid?

life is full of lessons, its whether or not youd like to learn them...

 

[scooter1369]

As a coach, I can kind of see then parent's side of this. Not the "pulling out a gat and and going Simon Phoenix" thing. But the "Why isn't my son playing as much as the other kids when I paid good money for him to play" thing.

The again, maybe the coach made the decision to not play the kid until his homocidal drunk father leaves.

 

[NightmaresDad]

As a coach, I can kind of see then parent's side of this. Not the "pulling out a gat and and going Simon Phoenix" thing. But the "Why isn't my son playing as much as the other kids when I paid good money for him to play" thing.

The again, maybe the coach made the decision to not play the kid until his homocidal drunk father leaves.

One response to the "I paid good money for him/her to play" argument is: How much of your own time have you spent with him/her teaching him/her the fundamentals of the game and practicing what we teach them at our practices?