Saturday, January 07, 2006

Bad sportmanship

Kids basketball games started today. There are two age brackets 2nd and 3rd play together and then Kindergarten and 1st play together.

Brittney's team played first it was a good game, they didnt win but they did really good and played their best.

Braden had two back to back games. First game they did great and won.

Second game was against a team from another small town called Spiro. This game went downhill from the first because it is a coed league and this team didn't bring any girls so that was the first thing, then the second thing is they brought a second grader too. Well they asked if the 2nd grader could play it was our decision since we were playing them. The coach said the kid wouldnt play much so we agreed. Our team is even boys and girls and more Kindergartens than 1st graders.

The game started with the other team totally not doing the rules, not staying in the zones that are part of the rules. It went downhill with cussing from that teams parents. Then further downhill with a fight in the stands, further down when the coach was asking why the rules mattered to the refs. It was awful.

The end is that team was totally kicked out of the league, which is sad for the kids but the parents were beyond awful. It is a Kindergarten/First grade game it is for fun and it was suppose to be a non competitive league. But it was awful. Hopefully next Saturdays game will go smoother.

2 comments:

Jody said...

Ugh that is aweful. I don't understand why parents can be like that at a kids game. I mean come on sports are supposed to be fun. I mean it's not like they are in the major leages or something. Sorry it was so aweful!!!!

Unknown said...

exactly what jody said, some parent's just put too much pressure on the kid. I mean if you make them have fun they will do better but if its like a JOB then they aren't gonna love going and aren't going to love playing either so they won't do their best, they will just go through the motions.