13 Crazy Parents in Youth Sports

1. I used to be a youth hockey referee, I had a game once with a team that was known to be very dirty and have parents that were out of control. It was squirt level which meant there was no body checking allowed, and this team was going all over the place and hitting everyone in sight. After calling 3 very obvious penalties the parents started going nuts at us referees. Swearing, leaning over the glass to scream at us, etc when finally one parent threw something on the ice. I was relatively new and was getting nervous about what to do, but my fellow ref calmly skated over to their fan section, pointed from one spot to another in the stands and said "everyone sitting from here, to here" and then proceeded to kick about 1/4 of the fans out of the arena. It was pretty great to behold. BPSteve