I'm sure it's like this in other sports, but I've never seen such a level of parental "involvement" than I have in youth football.
Our son only played one year and had a pretty good experience, but only in youth footbal do you get the level of coaches yelling at kids and parents acting like animals.
Of course that might all change now he's at an age where he's allowed to body check in lacrosse this spring...
Good lord you must have never gone to a youth soccer game! When I first met my husband he was coaching a U13 boy's team, the behavior I witnessed on the sidelines was deplorable at best. I actually heard one mother tell her son that if he didn't run faster she was going to break his legs.