Dad Plows Down 13-Year-Old Player During Kids’ Football Game
This Associated Press piece about parents who go insane during their children’s sports games contains some real doozies. One of them is the story of Cory Petero, a 36-year-old Pop Warner football assistant coach who decided it was a great idea to shove one of the opposing team’s 13-year-old players to the ground. Petero’s winning action came after the player reportedly sacked Petero’s son after the play was over. Petero has been charged with child abuse, which will effectively end his assistant coaching career in youth sports.
You can see the incident for yourself on CNN.com. Petero’s hit on the unsuspecting youth is swift and vicious. Nice job, asshole. Why didn’t you give him a kick to the groin for good measure?
The AP story has sane advice for parents with poor anger management skills: "Pull your kids out of the game. Or, as an assistant coach, make a formal protest to the officials or the opposing coach. If that doesn’t work, pull the entire team off the field. Anything would have been preferable to hitting a child." Too true. But when parents allow the winner-take-all mentality to take over, it ceases to be about the kids, and instead becomes about the parents using their kids as pawns in a chess game.
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1 opinion for Dad Plows Down 13-Year-Old Player During Kids’ Football Game
Linda
Sep 28, 2006 at 8:03 pm
shouldnt the title of this article be
Dad Plows Down 13-Year-Old Player During Kids’ >>FOOTBALL
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