Video: Coach Delivers Bone Snapping Hit on Middle School Football Player: MyFoxDETROIT.com
This is all you need to know, really.
“The coach decided to put on a kid’s helmet, and so I was picked. It was me and two other kids were picked by the head coach. So, we had to go out there and try to tackle him,” said Alex Androsuk. “The coach has seen the video and said I was faking my injury.”
The injury Androsuk is faking happened when a grown-ass man in a middle school football helmet ran into a 13-year old as hard as he could and broke his collarbone. There’s a lot of laughing in the video, and in a better world this would happen at the end of a montage where the down-on-his-luck coach has finally learned to love his ragamuffin squad of ne’er-do-well tweens and they’re all rolling around on in the grass hugging because sports are great. In a worse world — the one we actually live in — there’s a cracking noise that should have it’s own comic book onomatopoeia and a kid who had to get emasculated before he went home and told his parents what happened. Parents don’t react well to this. They react like you’d think they might.
I feel like things wouldn’t be so bad if the stupid sports thing of “get up, you’re faking/milking it/[genderphobic slur]” had been replaced with something really easy to say, like, “I didn’t mean to do that” or “I’m sorry”, or even “hey everyone help me get this kid with a f**ked-up bone to the hospital because I made a bad decision”. Mistakes happen, right? You rough-house and sh*t happens. Then, somewhere shortly thereafter, decency comes into play. If that doesn’t work, this happens.
He’s now thinking about contacting a lawyer to look into this.
The way it’s phrased, it sounds like an upset parent wanting a middle school football coach to show ass. Here’s a quicker solution: from now on, everybody uses their brains.
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I’m not a doctor, but I’m pretty sure it’s hard to fake a broken collar bone.
You want to feel your IQ drop a few points, read the comments people made on the local station’s story. It’s a whole lot of “that kid’s a wuss,” “the kid’s poor form is what hurt him,” “the kid’s bigger than the coach,” “the coach is just playing around,” and “rub some dirt on it!”
Completely missing the fact that a full-grown man should never be playing contact football with kids. Period. Forget the fact that a coach’s primary responsibility is the safety of his players, and pretend it’s just some random grown-up dude doing it: did anyone not think that a grown man who’s more coordinated & experienced (and has more muscle, probably) than a middle-school kid stands a good chance of hurting one of those kids when he barrels into ‘em at a run?
If the guy really wanted to “play” with the kids, he should’ve let the kids run into HIM at full speed. As it is, it looks to me like less “fun” for the kids and more “grown man tries to put the hurt on some kids.”
You hit the nail on the head, Brandon. Sure, I can twist my brain and understand a coach (or any other grown man) having a big enough brain-fart to think that this would be fun and/or a good idea; I can’t understand–especially once someone got hurt–the lack of an immediate recognition that it was a horrible idea.
Looking again at the comments people made on the story, blaming the kid, it just amazes me.
In what context, when an adult and a child engage in some action together and the child ends up getting injured, do we absolve the adult and blame the child? Jeebus–that’s why they’re called adults–you know, the people who take responsibility for and protect children from harm.
What a fag. You want to run over some kids AND wear a helmet? Be a man and leave the lid on the sidelines.
Detroit eh? The coach will be fine. He can pull the religious card and all will be forgiven.
Jerry Sandusky might’ve used a lighter touch.