I try my best to avoid parents all together.

 

Question, why do they yell when there is NO CHANCE IN HELL the players on the field can hear them? :idunno:

 

LOL My son heard me this season at a Naia college game and the stands were packed. I've gotten smarter over the years. I wait till there is a lull in the action and nobody is making a sound. I wasnt yelling at a ref though, I was yelling at the defense.

Ha ha ha...let's all laugh at the moms who don't know anything. I've seen more than my share of morons in the stands and half of those people are men.

 

Like LB said, the refs and players can't hear most of what you are yelling anyway! #wastedeffort

 

Hey, we're men. And as men we are experts on just about everything, especially sports. When we yell, we are merely exercising our voices toward those folks in stripes that need our help on a daily or weekly basis. It's a curse but we willingly took on that sacrifice.

Question, why do they yell when there is NO CHANCE IN HELL the players on the field can hear them? :idunno:

 

You can definitely hear them.

I personally don't like any yelling at the refs. They are out there doing the best they can. Refs make mistakes and I for one feel that the mistakes even out over the course of the year.

 

I did although see a ref make a mistake in a state title game that cost my team a state championship. The play was on a forth and goal play. The Quarterback was clearly stopped short of the goal line and the line judge clearly raised his right a and spots the ball short. The quarterback makes another effort to score and the ball is knocked out of his hands and one of his linemen recovers the ball in the end zone. Touchdown.. The only problem is the ref acted line he never spotted the ball when you can clearly see he did spot it short on film. I could not believe that he did not tell the Referee that he blew the play dead and spotted the ball. I had heard that the crew was suspended for the first game of the next season but cannot confirm that. Now that worth yelling about.

 

2006 Russell against Merger County

 

A. It wasn't the QB, it was one of the tailbacks, Ford if I remember correctly.

B. Whistle never blew, lineman recovered fumble = TD

C. That one play did not cost Russell the game.

D. Merger = Get over it. They played in the class assigned to them by the KHSAA. Have a problem, take it up with the KHSAA.

That is why I can very seldom sit with my wife at any sporting event. she yells before, during and after every single play and her vernacular needs a lot of help.

Hey man, what happened to the "for better or worse " clause? You gotta stick with em thru thick and thin !! ! Lol ! ! !

What kills me is to be in a tight ballgame and it's 3rd or 4th down near the end of the game and our team has the ball and the our fans start kicking the bleachers, blowing horns, ringing cow bells, screaming everything under the sun and the players can't hear the snapcount and either get a false start, delay of game, or have to call a timeout. Man that's a heck of a twelfth man

Sometimes it makes me want to start clearing the seats, lol !! ! .

I was on the field officiating and a Mom/Lady yelled "watch number #. He's holding." The white hat responded by saying "yes Ma'am". There weren't a lot of folks in the stands that game. Most folks laughed. I know I did.

I like to think of my brother in law and myself as Statler and Waldorf from the Muppets, we tend to find ourselves in the best viewing area (standing in the end zone on the fence) we are vastly entertaining and have been know time to time to burst out in heckling the refs, and anyone else around which leads into mutual laughter at our witticisms.

There is an often overlooked truth when it comes to yelling at officials, and that is: There is an inverse relationship between the age level/ability of the players and the amount of yelling by the parents. If your son (or daughter) is fortunate and talented enough to play NCAA level athletics or maybe make it into minor league baseball, those parents are much more quiet compared to 8-yr old coach pitch baseball or U10 soccer. If your child is young and possesses little skill, chances are greater that you will be the loudest mom in the park.

I always seem to find the people that are new to the game as far as rules go and are having each play explained to them by someone who is at their 5th game of their entire life. Sometimes it's comical listening to someone attempt to explain something that they have no idea what they are talking about, other times it can be annoying. The most common call our team has is holding. While it may be true that their is holding on every play if you wanted to call it, it does seem to be a favorite for our fans at least to heckle the refs about, especially when ours is in defense.

Wife and I went to one of our 9 year old nephew's games and to his credit he balled out. Looked like Barry Sanders and legit had highlight reel runs.

 

Maybe 300 people at this game in the stands. M wife (his aunt), his grandmas, and his mom were by far the loudest people in the stands hooting and hollering. That's not my style.

 

Jokingly I moved down two rows. My wife says "Why you moving away from us?"

 

I say, "Aside from the fact that country has done come to town behind me...I kind of want to be able to hear the rest of the weekend". She kicked me.

Wife and I went to one of our 9 year old nephew's games and to his credit he balled out. Looked like Barry Sanders and legit had highlight reel runs.

 

Maybe 300 people at this game in the stands. M wife (his aunt), his grandmas, and his mom were by far the loudest people in the stands hooting and hollering. That's not my style.

 

Jokingly I moved down two rows. My wife says "Why you moving away from us?"

 

I say, "Aside from the fact that country has done come to town behind me...I kind of want to be able to hear the rest of the weekend". She kicked me.

 

:laugh::laugh::laugh:

I will say this, I have (occasionally) raised my voice at an official at different times and at different sporting events. However, last Friday I was in my normal seat at my normal venue; I might have "yelled" a couple of time at an official, but later on, when everyone else was "yelling", I stated that it was a good call. A couple of times I did this, then, on one final occasion, someone said (so I could hear them), "He (me) has an excuse for everything". Sorry I wasn't on the bandwagon "yelling" at every call.

That is why I can very seldom sit with my wife at any sporting event. she yells before, during and after every single play and her vernacular needs a lot of help.[/QUO

 

Sounds like we all have the same Mother hens protecting their little chicks.

 

Don't forget the in-laws that want to sit on either side of you with a question after every snap, in stereo, "Did Jimmy do well on that play?", "Are they allowed to do that?", "What's Joey's number again, I can never tell them apart. I like it when he wears the different colored socks so I can pick him out." "Why don't the coaches tell them to block #44, he makes every play."

 

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It's much more fun to hear the coaches yell at the refs when they don't know the rules.