I’ve seen parents act crazy at their son’s ball games. Some parents say stupid things and yell even stupider things, like, “kill him!” I watch it happen and even being there can’t imagine what thought process creates this level of inappropriate acts. Growing up, there was one dad, a very muscular man, a city fireman, who coached his sons to beat up other kids in order to take their lawn mowing jobs away from them. These kids had zero friends. I always wondered what happened to them as they were nor socialized well. (They moved away in their young teenage years.)
They became union organizers.
At my son’s 6th grade basketball finals, parents on the other team repeatedly went out on the court to argue calls with the officials. They would get tossed. Police showed up.
Then their head coach got ejected for cussing out the refs. Their assistant coach finished the game. They lost by three. But then the parents threw stuff - cups, chairs, popcorn, etc - out onto the court.
I’ve never seen anything like that. It would have been a moneymaker on YouTube if I’d filmed it.
My son did a lot of sports growing up (now playing hockey in college) so I’ve seen a lot, but that had to be the worst.
Hero firemen.
People really need to stop being in such thralldom to these “heroes”. Any group designated “hero” doesn’t mean every person truly deserves it.