Parental behavior gone amok?

Parental behavior at prep sporting events has been a problem for several years.
It may have gone over the line in Fort Lupton.
In today's issue of the Fort Lupton Press, former football coach Mike Muedeking singles out select parents' behavior (including coarse language directed at his wife and two small children) as one of the reasons he chose not to come back to the sidelines in 2009.
Disagreeing with a coach or a coaching decision is a time-honored part of any sport. But when the disagreement stoops to a level that coaches don't want to return to do something they love, that is very disturbing.
How about some thoughts? Am I missing something here?
The floor is open ....

Oh please

Dick Vitale, the motormouth basketball announcer, was in town the other night to Dipsy Doo and Diaper Dandy his way through a televised NBA game.
That's why I went somewhere else.
Very few announcers are that good to upstage the event they are covering. Vitale doesn't come close to making that list. But don't tell Channel 9 that. The highlight package was all Vitale, all the time.
Denver's ear drums will never be the same.

Was open to any and all

Former NFL player Bill Romanowski wanted a chance to be the Broncos head coach.
It's a moot point now. Denver hired Jason McDaniels of New England instead.
Romo knows the game, no question about that.
But one thing the Broncos needed to do is repair some of the PR problems from the Mike Shanahan era. Romanowski was not an angel under the best of circumstances.
If nothing else, McDaniels gives Denver a clean slate from which to work. But unlike the CBS outlet here, I'm not quite ready to compare him to Shanahan's once-genius offensive mind.

Two football coaches won't be back

Brighton and Fort Lupton are looking for new football coaches.
BHS' Tom Ritter will not be back in 2009. Mike Muedeking resigned after two years in charge of the Bluedevils' fortunes.
Let me know what you think.

Sports and finances

Did you chuckle when you heard that the porn industry, the world's oldest profession (and the one that introduced the author to the word "concubine") is in need of a financial assist ($5 billion) in these troubled economic times?
I'd like some financial assistance, too, though not for practicing porn. I don't think I can go beat on the New York Yankees' door. After all, they provide a subsidy for the rest of the major leagues. I can't ask the Rockies. They can't afford Matt Holliday, so they certainly can't afford to help out a 50-year-old dude who can't stay out of divots on football fields.
The Nuggets can't help. The Avs are paying Joe Sakic an inordinate amount of money so he can stick his hand in the front end of a snow thrower.
I guess my financial assistance will be found in the loose change in parking lots, hubcaps and pants pockets.
That nice Quansett hut on the corner? I'll take it. Do I get heat? Central air?

Rocky Mountain rumble

Fact: The Utah attorney general thinks the Bowl Championship Series may be in violation of antitrust laws.
Fact 2: Utah U. hasn't been invited to a BCS game on a consistent basis the past few years, despite a pretty decent record.
Thought: Is someone running for re-election?

Happy New Year