View Full Version : The dumbest thing parents say....
dan dudley
22 Sep 2003, 06:34 PM
I've been reffing for plenty of years and i've experienced many parents who yell just to yell.
They have no clue what the rules are
If anyone else has the same problems let me here your stories about some of the dumbest things parents say
QuakeAttack
22 Sep 2003, 06:45 PM
Originally posted by dan dudley
I've been reffing for plenty of years and i've experienced many parents who yell just to yell.
They have no clue what the rules are
If anyone else has the same problems let me here your stories about some of the dumbest things parents say
In no particular order:
1. Don't go backwards
2. Shoot
3. Pass the ball
4. Stay back and defend (while the team is on offense)
Keep87
22 Sep 2003, 06:48 PM
-Kick it!
-Go!!
-Run!
dan dudley
22 Sep 2003, 06:49 PM
Originally posted by Keep87
The dumbest thing of all:
Go!!
....never could finger out what this is supposed to mean...
north carolina huh...
where are u from in NC
Keep87
22 Sep 2003, 06:51 PM
I live near High Point...
dan dudley
22 Sep 2003, 06:52 PM
o ok
i live in north Charlotte
Keep87
22 Sep 2003, 06:53 PM
k
Treetaliano
22 Sep 2003, 07:04 PM
Originally posted by dan dudley
i live in north Charlotte
Lived 6 years in Charlotte. Lived over by Eastland Mall, off of Albemarle. If I ever move back to the US, it will be back to Charlotte.
My addition to the thread. I used to coach a U-12 team back in my days there, and I heard this after the ref carded a kid:
Dad 1: "Why don't they use a penalty flag like they do for the Panthers?"
Dad 2: "Because they'd have to have two flags, One yellow and one red. So it is less stuff they have to carry."
dogface
22 Sep 2003, 07:10 PM
"Go to college"
"Eat red meat and drink milk"
"Sun is good for you"
oh...
you mean soccer-wise, don't you?
--df
seahawkdad
22 Sep 2003, 07:16 PM
One I remember was a rec league U12 boys game. A player, on a throw in, threw the ball forward and the receiving player, under pressure, passed the ball back to the thrower (who, of course, was then on the field in support).
The receiving player's mother, upon seeing the pass back, called out to him, "No, honey, that's the wrong way."
As I moved away to cover the play I turned my head and told her that her son had done exactly the right thing.
There are times when it's worth it. That was one of those times.
BentwoodBlue
22 Sep 2003, 08:29 PM
Man, if there is one thing that pisses me off is when a player is fouled, I blow the wistle for said foul and I hear "You need to call that ref! Protect the players!"
Grrrrr..
Statesman
22 Sep 2003, 08:31 PM
"You're not even wearing a real badge, you have a funny-shaped white one!"
JMU Soccer!
22 Sep 2003, 08:37 PM
I reffed all throughout my teen years...
I had one father who decided to scream at the top of his lungs that he had told me at halftime that I had to start calling things or someone would get killed. This was after a ball landed directly on the back of some kids head while he was facing the other way.
Parents are the worst. Reffing soccer taught me plenty about how NOT to raise kids.
Scott Zawadzki
22 Sep 2003, 10:07 PM
"Hey ref...HANDBALL!!!"
"What'd'ya mean no goal...it was half way over the line!!!"
"Offsides!!! OFFSIDES!!! C'mon ref, he's on a breakaway, that's always offsides"
(to his 11 year old daughter) "Don't make me come out there and beat you"
MD_05
22 Sep 2003, 10:11 PM
i just heard a guy say at a high school jv match, "that's no a handball, it hit his elbow"
...some parents never learn
RevsGuy06
22 Sep 2003, 10:37 PM
The all-time worst line from parents to their kids:
"Kick the ball hard!"
realmadrid1086
22 Sep 2003, 10:45 PM
Just this past Sunday I had parents yelling at me that I needed to call fouls both ways. This was after I called six fouls on each team. :rolleyes:
On another occasion, when I was centering a game in the Kohl's Atlanta Cup, a defender tackles an attacker from behind in the box. All ankle, no ball. I call a pk. A parent asks, "What did he call?" Another parent says, "I think she was offsides." :confused:
CrewDust
22 Sep 2003, 11:02 PM
Well, at least the parents are showing up to the games.
But as a player the one that always stuck out was playing in U-14 select, some mom yelled to her kid "Use your skills", um huh? what's that.
jacathcart
23 Sep 2003, 01:26 AM
Originally posted by Keep87
-Kick it!
-Go!!
-Run!
Actually these at least have the advantage of not claiming any knowledge of the game and are pretty innocuous. Personally I think that "Handball Ref!" is the alltime winner but when they are shouting "overlap" and "switch the field" I think both the ref and the coach would like to see a meteor hit them.
Jim
Claymore
23 Sep 2003, 09:51 AM
I once had a lady tell me that I should have "thrown a flag for interference" when her son got shoulder charged off the ball. This was a U-16 match, too. About two minutes later, some other parent asked me what the score was, and I told him it was 7-0 (it was actually 1-0). Riotous laughter from the sideline.