The lack of respect (and outright violence) that is being directed to police officers is not limited to our men and women in blue. It appears that thugs have no limits. Whether it’s law enforcement officials, elderly or unsuspecting citizens in the “knock out game,” or, in this case, a high school football referee, the attacks continue. And you’ll never guess what the “excuse” is.
During a football game last week between San Antonio John Jay and Marble Falls, two players on the John Jay team targeted an official during the closing stages of the game. Each player focused solely on the referee and delivered punishing blows including a helmet-led hit.
Here’s one angle of the hits:
MySanAntonio.com reports that the two players have been suspended both from school and from the team.
The district released a statement Sunday morning about the event.
“This is disturbing,” Northside ISD spokesman Pascual Gonzalez said as part of the district’s official statement. “It is not the sportsmanlike behavior that we teach our students. We are cooperating fully with the University Interscholastic League with this investigation.”
There is also the possibility of criminal charges being pursued.
Wayne Elliot, the head of the Austin Officials Coaches Association, told the Associated Press that the official, who Elliot declined to name to the news organization, was very upset and wanted to press charges.
“The first thing we want is that those two kids never play football again,” Elliot told the Associated Press.
In a statement issued by the University Interscholastic League on Sunday, the governing body for the state’s public school extra-curricular activities said the league is “extremely concerned about the actions portrayed.”
What’s just as disturbing as the attack against the referee is that now some students are claiming that the referee made racist statements to the players.
My brother is a football player for John Jay High School,#27 told me the whole real story, sorry reff but when you…
Posted by Clarissa Delgado on Sunday, September 6, 2015
So, this is what the country is coming to? Let’s just assume for one minute that the referee did make disparaging comments during the game. If so, there are official procedures in which the coaches can protest to the head official. That did not happen. Instead, the referee was attacked. So alleged name calling is now dealt with using violence? Is that the society we have now?
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Yes that is the society we live now, it’s called Obysmal’s Amerika!
We are being invaded and control by exotic ideologies from the Middle East, watching football is punished in those “advanced” countries. I think we are deeper in mud that we would like to accept.
Commendable the girl supports her brother’s version. Look at the facts! Officials made several “calls” unpopular with players and coaches. One coach “suggests” something be done to the ref. FOR A FOOTBALL ,PLAYER, A COACH’S “WORD” IS NEXT TO AN ORDER FROM GOD. Near the end of game and “in doubt”. Players do as coach suggested. TIME FOR DAMAGE CONTROL – CLAIM RACIAL COMMENT. IF – IF- IF the ref DID make such comment, the coaches SHOULD have informed the players that the proper procedure was to call a time out and inform the coach. The coach would then discuss with head-official and inform him a complaint would be filed. The school district has now suspended the two players from the team and rom the school. If the UIL investigation confirms the coach’s “suggestion”, the coach should be fired and the UIL should declare all the rest of the school’s games to be forfeit. WHY so severe? Young men have been killed due to violence of football. For a coach to “suggest” additional, ILLEGAL violence is unacceptable. That coach represents the entire school system and, unless he is a first-year coach, the administration has to be somewhat aware of his character. ONLY the elimination of that coach and permanent removal of the two players will send an effective message that such illegal behavior is unacceptable.
Got news for you “marucha”…IT AIN’T MUD!
No, white people don’t live in this world. White people can risk jail for defending themselves against physical attacks from non-whites. but the wrong word from a white person in the same county as a non-white, and it’s open season on dah crackah. You see, societies are zero-sum games — whites rule, or whites are ruled.
Reality check. Let’s posit one possible scenario of that incident. The referee made a remark that could have been perceived by the two players as being racist. They took personal umbrage and assaulted the referee.
This is a simple case of assault and battery. The referee should press charges against the players. The players would have no defense in a courtroom. The assault was captured on video and the guilt is beyond doubt.
If the referee fails to press charges, the two players will almost certainly repeat their thuggish behavior later in life, resulting in injury or death to the assaulted. Crimes must be prosecuted, if for no other reason than to provide lessons to others.
Not to give Obummer credit except to say that he has made things a lot worse, this sort of thuggery has gone on for a very long time. My wife and I lived in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles around the time of the Rodney King riots. A few miles away was a Denny’s we ate at a few times a month. Fortunately we weren’t in there when this incident took place. There was a man and his family eating dinner with a group of Hispanic gang bangers at a nearby table. After the family finished and paid, one of the bangers followed them outside and challenged the man for “looking at him hard”. The man tried to ignore him and turned to walk away. The *** banger puller a handgun and shot the man in the back. Fortunately, the man survived and they caught the ***. Sadly, in their minds, the smallest slight or show of disrespect is justification for violence and the thugs have learned all they have to do is cry racist to get away with it.
>> The referee made a remark that could have been perceived by the two players as being racist. They took personal umbrage and assaulted the referee.
This is a simple case of assault and battery. <<
I don't agree. I would had the players attacked the official the instant he made the remark (assuming he did); a simple case of overreacting that resulted in an assault. That's not what happened. This was as coordinated as any drawn-up play, with two players acting in concert to ambush the official. I think it goes beyond simple assault and battery. The "hits" on the referee were, in fact, hits that would have caused a penalty had they been perpetrated on a player on the other team. This was a clear attempt to cause permanent harm, and should result in hard prison time.
Tremors, that is cause for donkies years now, the left has bread it into the gang culture, that they are not at fault for their actions.. Its always someone or something else to blame. So they feel no accountability for their actions.
Combine that with lawyers more than willing to fight on their behalf, no matter what, they feel untouchable.
Article: “So alleged name calling is now dealt with using violence? Is that the society we have now?”
Welcome to the Liberal Left’s and Obama’s definition of tolerance, as well as, hope and change.
I don’t believe for one minute the ref called anyone a name. That is always used as a convenient excuse by these thugs, because the liberal progressives will bow ad scrape and agree and get upset.
Lies work in this society. It excuses any behavior.
Yes, the ref should sue, and I hope they go to jail for assault.
Remember he said he was going to “transform America”! It’s transformed alright! I just cringe thinking about that speech! How there wasn’t white america or black or red or blue just a United States of America. What a flipping liar and the sheeple cried! It just makes me sick.
John Jay was getting their butts kick in a major way and this was just an example of not taking responsibility for their actions. The older generations are to blame for raising a bunch of cowardly punks that have been taught that everybody is a winner. You get a medal for just breathing. Winning at any and all cost has now become the norm and no one has a clue what an honorable loss is. Losing is supposed to be the fire under their butts that makes them work harder and get better. Now it’s just an excuse to whine and make up lies about how they were mistreated. Some Jackass years ago decided that actually teaching life lesson was to hard and that the little darlings had their feeling and self esteem hurt. Well this is what you get when you don’t want to hurt their little egos. We don’t even have a rod to spare for the quote “spare the rod and spoil the child”. The extremes of PC are now rearing their ugly heads. “What you have sewn so shall you reap”.
This is becoming the norm in America. If anything does not go “YOUR” way just say that it was because he/she is racist. If this ref was saying racist remarks on the field, then the only approved way to handle this is by way of going through the proper channels and file a “FORMAL” complaint. Doing this crap on the playing field is just showing others how dumb and ignorant the players and coaches really are when things “DON’T” go YOUR WAY.
Sorry, but the entire team needs to be expelled for this action. Teach them that their actions were wrong.
Football is KING in Texas. Every year NOW, every school has the goal of “making the playoffs”. LONG TIME AGO, when I was in high school ONLY the district champion advanced to Bi-Distric and ONLY Bi-District champs advanced to playoffs. My high school is currently in a district of FIVE schools. The TOP FOUR schools advance to the playoffs. That means all the school has to do is win JUST ONE district game – JUST ONE! What about the “self worth” of that one school that failed to win even one district game?
Its not the older generations to blame for that whole “Kinder, gentler way of schooling/parenting, but LIBERALS. Oh and doctor spock, who said “don’t spank kids”..
BUT i do agree, that ever since we took discipline away and started raising wusses, things have steadily gone down hill.
That Jackass was Dr. Benjamin Spock!
You mean “sown,” not “sewn.”
Yes it is and you can thank the current resident of the white house, his administration, Sharpton, farrakahn, wright, and spineless leaderless individuals in both the senate and house.
This is another example of the war on authority figures being perpetuated in this country today. Give us a few more years and the entire nation will look like inner city Detroit. Roving bands of criminals will run amuck and the wealthy will hide out in fortified communities with well-paid private security forces. The rest of us will be on our own. Law enforcement will be a thing of the past and chaos will rule the day. Welcome to a Mad Max world.
You are right, unfortunately. It’s coming. Mark my words. It will be a showdown for control between the street thugs and the radical muslims.
Hopefully after 0 we will have a real leader…….
So when can we expect the losing team to start chanting “Refs in a blanket, Fry ’em up like bacon!”
Yes, this *IS* the atmosphere created by “dear Leader” Obama…and his objective!
As far as I’m concerned, this country has no leader. There is just an occupant and it’s family living in the White House for the past 6.5 years.
Worked in an auto factory near Detroit for 30 years
Last line of defense for bad behavior was racism.
Most blacks laughed knowing the accusation was BS.
In the navy, i always saw quite a few blacks who behaved badly, toss the race card in an effort to avoid punishment. All to often it worked.
Go to her facebook page by clicking on her name, then report her for inciting violence. (down arrow just to right of post(
Show us their faces why don’cha. They trying to keep their street cred up…huh These pieces of crap should be thrown off the team and out of school 4 eva
Then we are responsible for their HUD housing, Medicaid, Food Stamps, etc.
But they are probably already on all of that. They take no responsibility for themselves or their actions.
Beaux, What makes you think we aren’t already supporting them with welfare, section 8 housing, food stamps, (oops, I mean electronic benefit card), Medicaid, etc.
Obama must be proud with 2 more of his sons showing what they’re made of! This is textbook liberal teaching on display folks. Don’t like losing the game? Make someone pay for it and then play the race card to justify your criminal behavior. The same thing happened the other day with the well-raised young gentleman who refused to serve the police officer. In the end, it was her fault for making an issue of it because “she a racist or somethin”).
On the plus side, the 2 Jon Jay football players have likely obtained some serious street cred for their actions against this racist referee. They can probably forgo then usual gang initiations and start their new careers right away.
We need Trump NOW in order to stop this madness NOW !!!! Otherwise nothing will change !!!!
They should be kick off the team and out of school permanently. Just acting like hoodlum and need to be punished severely, need to learn this type of behavior will not be tolerated. No sportsmanship here.
yeah, well, I “heard” that the kids on the team were using anti-gay slurs against the Ref.
check, and mate.
Well if the ref did call him a “dirty Mexican” looks like he made an accurate call. Those little SOB’s ARE dirty
This is simple criminal assault and charges should be brought against these lawless thugs.
No, this was a coordinated attack. If the players alone decided to do this, PERMANENT black-listing from ALL athletic programs THROUGH college, although I doubt they’ll EVER get that far.
If a coach ‘suggested’ it, in addition to the above, the COACH should have criminal charges brought against him. In addition, unless this ‘coach’ was VERY newly hired, the school had SOME inkling of his character, therefore should FORFEIT ALL GAMES for two years, TWICE that if they do not immediately fire him!
Civil charges are up to the umpire, but if it were me, I’d sue the players, the coach, AND the school for damages!
I might also include the parent(s)..
BUT i do agree, if the coach was involved in anyway, he should be fired and banned from ever coaching again.
Same with the 2 kids.
The handy dandy race card; in today’s PC society it’ll work every time.
Its getting more useful than the American express card.. Don’t leave home without it!
Every criminal thug in history makes up an alibi when caught. These kids are patently liars and cowardly thugs. It is absolutely certain they didn’t approach the poor ref from the front!
You can ‘betcha’ this is another untruthful case when a couple of individual football player who were, themselves, practicing ‘RACISM’, and falsely accused the Referee as a ‘RACIST’ in order to get away with their ‘CRIMES’ of attacks on the Referee.
The questions are, at any time did either of the attacking football players relate any earlier ‘RACISTS’ activity to their coaches?
If not so, these 2 high school players football career must be over, forever.
Affirmative action and political correctness created a monster.
thug ball, this country is headed for a big one, be prepared.
The players should be expelled, and permanently banned from school sports if they become accepted as students at another school.
The Ref., if proven to have made disparaging remarks, should be suspended or banned depending on just what it was he said. While words can often offend others, violence, which can inflict physical injury should result in prosecution.
I am with ya up to the ref part. Even if he is some how proven to have made that sort of comment “Dirty mexican” that is NOT racist, as Mexicans are not a race..
YouTube is rife with video clips of thugs play-acting as athletes who commit assault on sports officials, most of whom aren’t in it for the money, but because of their love of sports. At this rate, it’s no wonder many state high school athletic associations are struggling with shortages of officials across the board. This utter contempt for authority and disrespect for the competition and the players’ themselves are not limited to high school athletics but are also seen in club, college, pro and international levels of competition. Until a governing body stands up and makes a severe example of these punks’ actions, it will regrettably continue and worsen.
Someone along the way has to show some integrity and conduct a swift investigation until the path to justice is established. Don’t expect players to throw their coach under the bus. If he suggested illegal actions against officials, he should be the first to tap dance in front of a judge in civil and criminal lawsuits, followed by the two thugs involved. If the investigation shows a culture of contempt up the food chain, then those people who are supposedly in charge are just as culpable. Stop the madness!
we have become a very dumb lawless out of control ugly place to live a free life as we have always know it as Americans. we have enabled the least amongst us. the very low IQ and low intellect feral thugs are now the dictators of our social and cultural contract. congress is the stenographers. a very sorry time. backward and ignorant. illiterate,creepy and evil. the dark ages redux. it happens.
All cause we have STOPPED letting darwins law rule..
Real good example of our lawless society and where we are headed. Chalk one up for kids acting as our Lawless government leaders.
The time to scream discrination is before you could be charged with possible felony charges. I am sure that the team will stick togeher and even fabricate their stories to show they are united as one team. It seems that through the film this could have been a team effort and only the ones that did the actual damage has been punished when as a team they could all face the same disipinary action. The ref was blindsided because of team actions in front of the play giving the opportunty for the two to do the damage. The entire team should be under review and the game forfiture until the police do a thorough review to see if there should be charges filed and whom should be charged. A study from the coaches down. It may not be the first time coach wishes are carried out against referees. Possible that it was just poorly executed. If in fact there was a racial slure during the game, the head ref should have been informed and immediate action taken.
With some of the horror stories i have heard from Texas about what crimes football players get up to, with no punishment, all cause of the “good ole boy network, since they are football stars ya know”, it wouldn’t surprise me one bit to see the entire team support these 2 thugs.
So if they do, ban the whole bloody team!