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“That’s weird. Its white people”

Unfortunately it is common in youth sports. I coached ice hockey for 19 years. I have seen it all, with the exception of someone dying. I was coaching a Bantam(13 and 14 year old) team and we were in a tournament. A player was called for a crosscheck which knocked another player into the boards, where he collapsed. EMS was called and thankfully the player was alright.

The mother of the player who crosschecked started screaming at the refs that it was a BS call. The father of the kid who was hit was sitting a couple of seats away. He started arguing back that the mothers kid was a thug. She got up, got right in his face and started cursing at him. Meanwhile he is yelling back at her but you can see he really doesn’t want to engage her further. That’s when she landed a punch to his face and before the second punch landed, the man knocked her unconscious.

Was a fitting end to the tournament.