Scratch deep enough into a group of middle-aged fathers raging at a youth sports event and undoubtedly you will find some former jocks who are still trying to live out their fantasies of athletic glory thru their innocent kids. I can only imagine how embarrassing it's got to be for those kids to see. The sad part is that often the kids of those parents are removed from the team for the sins of the parent.

South Park dedicated an entire episode to that. Kids were all relaxed for the game, but the parents were at each others' throats. Prescient!

I am not surprised. When coaching little league we once had a near fight. When we went to their field a number of parents pulled their kids from that game. That following game got dropped from the record books costing the other team seeding at the season end.

While watching my son, in high school, play basketball, I and two others broke up a fight between fans - that one, however, was racial motivated when a fan from the other team (A Christian school) called one of our players the n word.