Today our family had a great time supporting Brittany and her team. We saw some instances with parents of other teams bad mouthing refs and making negative comments, but nothing too bad. However we heard, while we were gone on break, that some parents in another game had to be taken away by the police because they were out of control. I don’t understand this kind of attitude in professional sports, but I sure don’t understand it in 10 – 14 year old soccer leagues. Apparently, it is a bigger problem than I imagined. Just what are people thinking?

Another thing we saw is that the tournament had to have field marshals out monitoring the crowd to make sure people weren’t drinking and partying while the kids were playing. I have never been one to judge people for drinking, but do people really think taking their children to a soccer game coincides with having a few beers?!?

I am not a perfect parent or person by any means, but I can’t imagine what the children of the above parents felt like. I sure hope it is something my kids never see out of me.