From what I’ve seen, the “serious” parents are living vicariously through their kids. One parent I know talks nonstop about her daughter’s success on multiple softball teams - two or three teams each season - her daughter’s height, and her shoe size. We often hear about out-of-town softball tournaments and how busy…

My small high school in rural Kentucky had 3 paid football coaches. They all taught academic courses, too, but they were hired to coach football.

And yes, I thought that sucked at the time, too.

I grew up in Ohio, McKinley probably spends as much money on football as 30 percent of college programs. This is the type of shit that has no place in High School sports, but this program and this state where football is really king, they literally had no idea this was wrong. They are at least 40 years behind the…

Set aside race. Set aside religion.

I’ve coached kids and been a referee, and the lesson I’ve learned is that there are too many adults that take kid’s sports way too seriously. The miniscule percentage of kids that get recruited to play college sports, and the even more microscopic percentage of kids that make it to the pros is enough motivation to…

Yeah, that’s a bullshit story. It makes no sense. The purpose of the pepperoni was to punish him for missing his practice or whatever by making him eat something he couldn’t for religious reasons. Unless chicken is also on the list of things not to eat, those aren’t a punishment. Those are a snack.

Why does a single high school employ seven (or more?) football coaches?

Lotsa thoughts, lotsa whatever.

First, I KNEW there would be some real stupid comments on this.

It just makes me wonder how much of the toxic masculinity in this country derives straight from sports in general and football in particular.

Same here, after a short period of confusion and, ultimately, disappointment that it didn’t actually turn cotton into gin.

I remember learning about the cotton gin just fine without having to actually clean cotton myself. 

No matter how blue the state, once you get far enough outside the cities, you are basically in Alabama.

White folks kill me with their self-appointed and unwanted deputization of unknown authority. I find it ironic that they wanted to protect the children but then used words that they probably don’t want their kids to use - hard to tell with them as they get cussed out by the kids starting usually around 6-7th grade. I…

What happens to whiteness deferred?

Actual and factual. Plenty of us out here during the pandemic weren’t having any problems not engaging with the general public for this very reason - people are the worst. Just things like kids in restaurants acting the fool and the parents who let them, tables of loud adults that can’t handle their liquor, people in…

This is the reason I don’t go to public pools. Between nudity, loud voices, cursing, noisy children and PDA not one member of the modern public knows how to act in public.

Why would he need to be in court in person? There’s a goddamn pandemic, that’s what video is for.

Bruh, if the police kill me, PLEASE burn down a city or two. If I can’t have freedom and the ability to partake in capitalism, I don’t see why anyone else should. 

Sad, sad, sad. Mr. Sutherland’s death was totally preventable and not necessary. Why were they even Tasing him? As a woman suffering from depression, anxiety and ptsd, this really makes me even more nervous and mistrustful of the police.