I first saw the Paintsville/P'burg fight on the internet a few years ago on a national website. The topic was all time great sporting event brawls, it was easy to see why that one was on the list. Glad to see it again, very high entertainment value.

Not sure how true it is, but one thing I have always heard about the Paintsville/P'burg fight video is that it shows Pelphrey's dad as one of the guys who are in the tussle. Again, don't know how true it is but have heard from a few people that somewhere in that mess is Pelphrey's dad.

 

 

 

......well edit that, after listening to the announcers in the video they even say it, so I guess it is true.

Another interesting one I thought of, althought it didn't end up in a fight, it just seemed like it would, was when a Conner basketball Dad came charging down from the stands to let his son's head coach-David Taylor-know what he thought of his coaching. And this was in the Regional tournament at Holmes. I forget who the Cougars were playing. Dad had to be escorted out by the Covington police. I always wondered what the kid thought about his Dad's antics.

It was 1992, the Game was Conner vs Holmes. The parent in question's son was a junior and the starting point guard for Conner. I was not there but from what I have heard about it over the years the parent in question did not like something that Coach Taylor did to the boy. anyway it was a truly ugly scene, one that could have really been ugly. Conner would lose that game that night in the semi-finals at Holmes, but with that point guard and a last second shot from Troy Fryman, Conner would win the region in 1993.

It was 1992, the Game was Conner vs Holmes. The parent in question's son was a junior and the starting point guard for Conner. I was not there but from what I have heard about it over the years the parent in question did not like something that Coach Taylor did to the boy. anyway it was a truly ugly scene, one that could have really been ugly. Conner would lose that game that night in the semi-finals at Holmes, but with that point guard and a last second shot from Troy Fryman, Conner would win the region in 1993.

 

Pretty sure this wasn't the first time a Conner parent came out of the stands. I think it happened at CCH in about 1979 or 1980.

I have been involved or have heard of several fights that happened around Conner High School over the years. The one I remember the most was in 1998, Conner and Dixie Heights were playing and a fight broke out in the stands between Conner parents. One parent was yelling off color remarks and another parent, a mother of one of the Conner players asked them to be quiet because there were young children around, well the first parent told this mother where she could put her comments and another parent, a dad of one of the players told the first guy to shut up and then it started. The dad and the first guy were going at it when the dad slipped and fell between the bleachers at Dixie. For those who remember the stands at Dixie before they were replaced a person could fall between them. Well this dad was stuck in the bleachers and couldnt get his arms free, well the person who was yelling at the beginning was really putting a beat down on the guy who was stuck in the bleachers, then one of the Conner coaches saw what was going on and jumped the fence (which was really short) and ran up in the bleachers to break up the fight. It was a total mess, I remember people from Dixie calling us a bunch of rednecks for fighting in the stands. I also remember the police did not step in until the fight was nearly over. The next day we played a JV game at Conner and it was so funny because these parents who were fighting the night before came to the game with teeth missing, some broken bones and one guy had several stitches in his finger because he tried to fish hook somebody and almost lost his finger in the process. Fun times had by all.....

Pretty sure this wasn't the first time a Conner parent came out of the stands. I think it happened at CCH in about 1979 or 1980.

 

I was just assuming it was 1992 because that was when David Taylor was Conner's coach. Anyway fighting and Conner sports seem to have a proud tradition

One that I was personally involved with wasnt much of a fight but it is a funny story. I played for Conner and we were getting beat badly by Ryle so it was my turn to play. I got in the game and got into a shoving match with some back up RB, I was a senior and I really did not care if I got thrown out, and we were getting beat so I thought what the heck lets start a fight. So there I am squaring off with this kid when the ref tells me to quit or get tossed, then my team mate yelled out "it wont matter we play SK next week and they stink" (Sk beat us the next week but thats another story) So there I am thinking I have my team mates behind me as I was pretty much standing in Ryles huddle and ready to fight, well I turn around and nobody was there but me because my team was in the huddle and forgot about me. Well I turned around and swiftly made my way out of a bad situation because I didnt know how many of those Ryle players it would have taken to whip me, but I did know how many they were going to use, Coach takes me out of the game and chews my butt for a while until the game was over. After the game walking to the school bus some girl from Ryle starts cussing me and the she takes a swing at me, well I was in total shock and did nothing because my coach by this point had grabbed me by the face mask and took me to the bus, turns out I was trying to start a fight with that girls boy friend and she didnt like it too much. Those were the days.........

I think every Northern Kentucky All Star football game had a fight until about 1990.

I think every Northern Kentucky All Star football game had a fight until about 1990.

 

Yeah, but the best was in 1988, when they actually had to stop the game because of a melee.

Paintsville/Prestonsburg fight.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIl3UaqqoRk

 

Spent some time in Prestonsburg and a little in Paintsville as well. Enough time to know, that these folks understand when it's time to fight, it's time to FIGHT.

I think every Northern Kentucky All Star football game had a fight until about 1990.

 

The 2008 all-star game had a big brawl. The officials called the game off with about 30 seconds left.

This year's all-star game had a kid get ejected for uppercutting a Dlineman in the jaw.

Being in a high school sports related fight is nothing to be proud of or remotely condoned in my opinion.

Being in a high school sports related fight is nothing to be proud of or remotely condoned in my opinion.

 

I completly agree. However I do have a semi funny story about a scuffle I got in when I was in high school. My senior year we lost to a team we probably shouldn't have lost to. Towards the end of the game, I was involved in a scuffle slash "I did such and such to your mom" kind of thing. Both of us were pulled from the game(it was over anyway). Then we got into it again at the handshake and I had to be dragged to the locker room by coaches and teammates. Fast forward two years I ran into the same kid in college at a buddies house who happened to be a mutual friend. We had a pretty good time laughing about the whole thing over beers. I guess the moral of the story is that in the heat of the moment people can lose their cool and make idiots of themselves, but that doesn't necessarily reflect their character.

The 1989 season ending NKY all star game (played in 1990 I guess) had every Highlands representative kicked out of the game. There were definately some doozies in the all star games. Eventually, I think the kids were doing it just to do it, not so much for a dislike for the other players or teams.