A soccer mom who wore a firearm openly at her daughter’s U6 soccer match is fighting to keep her concealed weapon permit. Have you ever contemplated that parents at your child’s soccer match might be carrying a loaded weapon?
Entries Tagged ‘Soccer Moms’
Soccer Parents From Hell
You might think that loud obnoxious parents are ‘Soccer Parents From Hell’ in a coach’s eyes, but they aren’t. Debra-Lynn explains about true soccer parents from hell over at Journey in Parenting:
We are the parents who make the coach think really hard about retiring, the ones who always forget to pay our fees, who can [...]
Funny Soccer Tweets
I’ve been using social networking sites more and more, and finding some rather funny stuff. I use a great Twitter client called TweetDeck, which allows you to search the public timeline for certain keywords so you can monitor tweets with certain words. Very cool. Well, I had to share a rather funny tweet that scrolled [...]
Coming To A Touchline Near You
Can’t resist posting. I really should, but I can’t.
Keep an eye out five years form now – you never know who might show up on the parent sideline!
Aggravated Battery = Felony. Soccer Parents Beware.
The Ref posted a few links about this last fall and even now it’s still amazing. In a U8 soccer match, after a player was hurt after a collision and the referee didn’t call a foul, a soccer mom came onto the field to argue with him. As the referee continually asked the woman to [...]
How To Avoid Becoming A Soccer Mom
From the Christian Science Monitor (H/T ncguy3), we find five ways to avoid becoming a Soccer Mom. My favorites:
Rule 3: Don’t do sports. After dumping your van, this is the most important rule. Don’t, under any circumstances, let your child join a sports team – especially a travel team. No matter how talented your child [...]
Folding Chairs = Weapons
Ah the folding chair. As ubiquitous a symbol of youth soccer as the mini-van. But who knew they could also be a weapon? Coaching rule #737 – Never p*ss off the Soccer Moms. They WILL geÂt you. (HT soccerisourlife)
Yet You Need A License To Have A Dog
Are you KIDDING me? I never cease to be amazed at what some parents will do to get their kids to be ‘better’:
A soccer mom, upset at her teenage daughter’s performance at a game Saturday, stopped along Interstate 80 and left her there.
Officer Katherine Finnell said the 42-year-old Lincoln woman was ticketed on [...]
How Would You Explain Offside To A Soccer Mom?
Offside confuses soccer parents – there is no denying it. I chuckle because I see some soccer parents who played AND have coached, yelling at referees for offside when it clearly wasn’t. So how would you explain offside to soccer parents? Josh at Throughball found a soccer parent asking that very question though he’s not [...]
Soccer Parents – Why They Do What They Do
Old Soccer Guy has some thoughts up on why some soccer parents act the way they do. I think he’s definitely hit on a few of the more common ones, though I think there are dozens, if not hundreds, of other reasons out there too:
there is an abundance of moms who had some opportunities but [...]
Alive and Kicking – Soccer Moms Take The Pitch
I think it was the tag line of Alive and Kicking that caught my eye. "When Soccer Moms Take The Field And Change Their Lives Forever" I wasn’t sure what to expect. But I was browsing around Amazon for some soccer books and figured for a couple bucks used, it was worth a [...]
How Do You Spell Berserk In Norwegian?
Lest you think that crazy soccer parents are unique to American youth soccer, we find this:
“A female parent from the visiting team came running onto the pitch and attacked a 13-year-old. She pushed the 13-year-old onto the ground, so the girl was lying on her back,” Tor Eriksen of the Bardufoss regional sports association (BOIF) [...]
The Culture of Soccer (Moms)
Watercolor by Maryann Burton
If you haven’t had a chance to stop by the relatively new blog ‘Culture of Soccer‘ by David Keyes, you should find some time to do so. I found my way there thanks to Josh over at ThroughBall and have enjoyed reading David’s in depth posts about a variety of topics related [...]
A Soccer Mom Who ‘Gets It’
Someone recently posted a comment on one of the older NCYSA Academy Proposal posts and it was excellent. I wanted to make sure everyone saw it because I think it’s a post in it’s own right on where youth soccer is today from a parent’s perspective. So I give you ‘Soccer Mom on Soccer’:
Wow, this [...]
