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Youth #Football League Season Canceled After Parents Misbehave

In Hartford County, Maryland, the football season for the Bel Air Terps 12U Red team is over. What, did the league run out of money? Did Hurricane Irene destroy their playing field? Nope.

Parents behaving badly caused the Upper Chesapeake Youth Football League to cancel the season. Not a lot of details about the incidents that started this chain-reaction, but apparently two parents got into it at a team scrimmage. Yes, that’s right: not a championship game, heated rivalry game, or even just a regular season game, but  scrimmage. Then, allegedly, when the team called parents together to tell them to stop behaving badly, more of them started behaving badly, so the decision was made to cancel the entire season.

This is why we can’t have nice things.

 

 

Angry Parent at Youth #Football Game Arrested for . . . Biting Cops?

Parents behaving badly at their kid’s sporting events is nothing new.

A parent running onto the field to protest a bad call is also quite common.

Being asked to leave the field by the commissioner of the league? It happens.

Refusing to leave the field AND biting two cops who try to arrest you? That honor alone belongs to DeJuan “You Can’t Arrest Me!” Wells, 28, of Indianapolis who rushed the field just before a youth football game ended between the Boilermakers and the Spartans as the Boilermakers were about to go for a two-point conversion to win the game. He threatened the ref, refused to leave the field and then bit two off-duty cops working as security.

No word if the Boilermakers converted.

Men Accused of Stealing 18K From Youth Football League

As usual, we’re not surprised to learn that someone has stolen money from a youth sports league. What surprises us is the amount people like these two former officers of the Boone County Youth Football league were able to make off with without anyone noticing: $18,000. Admittedly, not as much as some of the embezzlement stories reported, but still quite a bit of cash for the folks in Lebanon, Indiana. And what did these two idiots spend the money on? Trips to Vegas or sports cars and hot chicks? Nope. Household expenses, according to police.

Damned economy. Here’s more from the Indianapolis Star:

Chris Shockley, 39, and Adam Roberts, 35, were charged with three felony counts of theft in a warrant issued Friday in Boone Superior Court, police said. Police said the charges are the result of a two-month investigation into money discovered missing when new officers were elected to the organization. After examining the group’s financial records, the football league board contacted the Lebanon Police Department. Investigators believe the men used the money primarily for household expenses, police said.