This is VERY scary for many reasons.

In an article by Richard C. Senelick, M.D., on his blog in the Huffington Post, he tackles the issue of inappropriate comments made by parents, spectators, and coaches of youth sports during games.  He even points to a very disturbing video on Youtube that shows a couple of kids colliding during a practice with very poor tackling technique that results in the one kid crying after the play.  Quite frankly, he was lucky to be moving after the hit.  The most disturbing part of the video is not in the short 8 seconds that is played, but rather the number of comments from viewers who think the video is some how funny or encouraging.  Some parents even go so far as to say that they hope that their kid hits in the same way.  This is vile, disgusting, and reprehensible.  Quite frankly, I feel that this kind of behavior needs to be treated with zero tolerance and have those parents banned from participation.

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