Nice! Fortunately, nothing like this happened to the high school team I coach this year, although we blew a 21-3 lead with 6 minutes to play in one game, a 21-12 lead with 8 minutes to play in another and then lost Friday night in a game that both teams combined for 28 points in the final 58 seconds of the first half, costing us a playoff berth.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/23/footba ... index.html
Football dad pulls gun on coach to get son in game
POSTED: 1:04 p.m. EDT, October 23, 2006
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PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (Reuters) -- The father of a young football player pulled a gun on his son's coach because he didn't think the boy was getting enough playing time, Philadelphia police said on Monday.
Wayne Derkotch, 40, was charged with aggravated assault after getting in a fight with the coach over the amount of time the boy was getting on the field at a game for 6- and 7-year-olds on Sunday morning, said police spokesman Officer Raul Malveiro.
"There was a physical altercation about what child should play or not play and then he pulled the gun," Malveiro said.
There were no injuries and Derkotch fled before being arrested after a complaint was made by the coach, whose name was not released, Malveiro said.
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