Posted on 10/20/2006 1:16:57 PM PDT by RGSpincich
A local football league is threatening legal action over a video posted on the popular U-Tube internet site.
The video shows an incident between Mason Youth Football Coach Darrell Boreing and 9-year-old wide receiver Ricky Demann.
The Demann family admits Ricky struck his quarterback with both fists on the shoulder pads for not passing him the ball.
During a time out -- the Demanns contend Coach Boreing - who is also the quarterback's father -- grabbed Ricky by the facemask and spun him around.
They say the Mason Youth Football Board isn't handling the incident properly -- so they put the video on the internet for others to see.
The Board issued a statement tonight claiming the Demanns edited the video so it is not shown in context.
The video maintains Coach Boreing grabbing Ricky's jersey -- and does not show the boy throwing his helmet and mouthpiece.
The Board says it is exploring legal options to deal with what it calls "defamatory and libelous comments."
October 19, 2006
There are two sides to every story and oftentimes things are not as they appear. Mason Youth Football and Coach Boreing will fully respond to the inflammatory and misleading allegations made by John and Dana Demann at the appropriate time and in the proper venue. However, it appears necessary to point out that, following the incident depicted on the Demann video, the Mason Youth Football Board met with the interested parties, reviewed the edited video provided by the Demanns, and considered many factors, including the credibility of the parties involved. Following those meetings, our Board President and Coach Boreing met with the Demanns and their son; Coach Boreing expressed, on behalf of the coaching staff and team, a desire for the child to return to the team; and the Demanns agreed to his return. At that time, the Demanns received the primary resolution they requested from the Board: to have their son return to playing football after being held out of participation by them for several days. At the conclusion of the meeting, the Demanns helped their son put on his equipment and Coach Boreing drove him to practice.
In the ensuring weeks, however, the Demanns have initiated what can only be described as a smear campaign within the team, the organization, the Mason community, and on the internet. Given that their son was back to playing football, it seems evident that the Demanns are seeking to advance some other agenda (perhaps relating to their removal several years ago from involvement with the Mason Youth Cheerleading organization as a result of alleged threats by Mr. Demann against cheer parents and cheerleading Board members). Regardless, Mason Youth Football and Coach Boreing intend to vigorously defend ourselves and are exploring all available legal options to deal with the defamatory and libelous comments made, and activities undertaken by the Damanns, including the circulation of a manipulated video of the incident without true and complete disclosure of the context in which the incident occurred.
At no time did Coach Boreing grab Ricky Demann’s facemask or otherwise abuse him in any way. Contrary to the Demann’s description of their video of the incident posted on YouTube.com (a version of the video that is edited differently than the one the Demanns showed to Mason Youth Football), the video clearly shows Coach Boreing grabbing the jersey, not the facemask, of the player, who was heading off the field in the opposite direction from the coach. The child was ranting about quitting, apparently because the quarterback had failed to throw him a pass on the previous play. Since Coach Boreing and the player were headed in opposite directions, both coach and player were spun around.
Both versions of the Demann video fail to show the bizarre and unsportsmanlike behavior of their son prior to and following the incident, which helps place the incident in the appropriate context. Following the play immediately preceding the incident, Ricky Demann charged his quarterback, aggressively struck him on the shoulders, and demanded that the quarterback “throw me the ball.” Ricky Demann then returned to the huddle. The version of the video shown to the Mason Youth Football Board by the Demanns, however, is clearly missing some period of time following their son’s return to the huddle but prior to the incident. The video also does not show the child throwing his mouthpiece at the coach as the two approach each other on the field.
The video clearly shows Coach Boreing calmly talking to the player on the field seconds after the incident, but fails to show the child throwing his helmet to the ground as he approaches the sideline. Of course, this unusual behavior, as well as concerns raised by the Demanns to Coach Boreing in the days prior to the incident regarding their son’s uncharacteristic statement to teammates that “you don’t know what I’m going through right now,” is important detail in order for viewers to place the entire situation into the proper context.
Link to statement
and further info
http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061020/NEWS01/310200023/-1/CINCI
Why is this news? (I'm not criticizing the post, I'm criticizing the fact that all these people didn't just say that they lost their tempers and that they should cool down and laugh it off.)
I see you had the other thread pulled. In the interest of fairness let's see what the coach and league have to say.
Ohio, land of Woody Hayes!
I can't count the times one of my coaches grabbed me by the facemask, while getting a point across. I NEVER took it as anything bad. He never did it maliciously, it was, as I took it to be, a teaching tool. A very effective teaching tool.
I hated up-downs with a passion!! I would rather do 100 yard suicides than up-downs, and our coach knew it! He was a master at knowing what we hated most, and was very effective at using that knowledge to make life hell when we screwed up.
The coach and the league fight back.
What did you think of that comeback by my Lobos against Utah last night? I thought the game was pretty much over when Utah took a 24-3 with 6 min left inthe 1st half. I almost turned off the radio, but something kept me listening. I'm happy I stuck with it. You were right last week about the Freshman QB providing a spark. He played a hell of a game last night. 19 of 33 for 350 yds, 3 TD's 1 int, and 35 yds rushing.
Did you ever figure out how to do up/downs without really doing up/downs?
I was always trying to figure out a new way to do them.
Generally I'd do hip downs :)
yeah because he doesn't know to be nervous or anything so he's just going out and playing the game.
That was nuts. I didn't think they were going to win either.
I watched that video numerous times and I saw no face mask grabbing at all.
I perfected a way for my knees to hit the deck in a way that made it easier to get up. If you do it right, your chest never touches the deck, and you can spring up quickly.
When I went to bootcamp I found the Marine Corps had their variation of up-downs. The above technique doesn't work to well on hard surfaces.
Two days ago a lot of people here wanted the coach lynched just on the say so of a poster and the kid,s mother. Glad to see you are among the group that would rather believe your "lying eyes". ;~)
So this somehow excuses a 200 pound man from violently taking a 9-year old kid off of his feet?
I coach in this league. I understand the necessity of keeping the kids in line and occassionally dressing down a bad attitide. I even grab the kids facemasks to make sure they are looking at me when I'm speaking to them. So I understand. I get the calls from the angry parents. I deal with the frustrated officials just trying to run a game for the kids and dealing with screaming coaches and fans.
What I don't get is a 200 pound man violently taking a kid off of his feet in that manner. Facemask, shoulder pads, jersey, arm. It doesn't matter. You don't manhandle children like that.
He didn't take him off of his feet. The kid tried to throw himself on the ground to get out the coach's grasp and the coach didn't let go. The kid was providing all the energy to the flopping around you saw.
Just saw that about the other thread. My my my.
C'mon now...they also were looking at the video on U-tube. The video does look like the kid is pulled by the face mask...at least it did to me on the first look. I watched a few more times and thought it could go either way.
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