I see some are talking about the high school footballers that hit the ref. I wonder if there will be more and more of that type of on-field violence. I saw another video the other day of a player ripping an opposing lineman’s helmet off and then smacking the kid in the head with the helmet by swinging it from the mask. The kid that was hit got 10 stitches to close the cut on his head.

Are some of these kids picking up this behavior from some of the parents that we’ve all seen and heard about that run onto the field to attack a kid that hit their kid, or attack a coach that isn’t playing little Johnny enough or jump the ref that the parent thought made a bad call?

The behavior of crazy parents has gotten worse over the last 20 -30 years, the kids and everyone else may be thinking this is all normal.