the good player loses the focus on just having funnel there is no reinforcement. brian: how do you explain this behavior. parents care about their kids i get it. how come we are losing more perspective. i could have pulled out 25 different referee videos. there is referees that have been killed on the field. this increasing aggression and abuse not only to rev refs teammates and parents. it s not only the money, brian, it s also the investment of time. brian: some strategies to calm down. watching your kid play. weekend is here. it s friday. watching your kid play all different levels and ages. some advice? some advice to parents is what i call emotional mapping. prepare for it. use it as a teaching moment that when you have to manage stress, you need strategies, breathing, laughing, walking away on the field and get a little exercise and mapping it out with your child in advance to know how to respond effectively in the
bennett amalu. we need to not necessarily focus on trying to make the game safer. yeah, i like football, too, but my grandson is not going to play football. he s five years old. he knows he s not going to play football. i didn t want my sons to play. but i wanted it to be their choice. given what i know now, and i ve said this over and over, if i had to do it all over again, given what i know now, i would not have played the game. because i ve seen the damage that has been created by playing this game, and you can sugarcoat this thing all you want. it s a game, everybody everybo to go out and watch. if you got the information as a parent and you want your kid to play, fine. let your kid play. but i think if you really want to protect your kid, you would think differently. thank you in las vegas to harry carson. also thank you to demarius smith in d.c. i didn t get a chance to ask you
they were allowed to clap. they didn t have to sit there and be quiet. the applause was even louder. that s what happens. but the big picture is they are trying to castrate sports. you should feel shame when you let a goal in. that s the deal. you screwed up, idiot. kids in schools now are being raised in petri dishes. you can t have the gross foods in the school and the anti-bullying and now this in sports. life is competitive and you will have negativity with what you do and with your performance. you need to develop a thick skin or have it fuel you or do whatever you need to do. what about the poor cheerleaders? what did they do? let s do that for awhile. joanne, do you seem to me like in about 5 years you will be that high pitched heckler who gets drunk before she sees her kid play. my mom is drunk off wine like, my kid! what
in sochi. the two-time olympic gold medalist, he remains happy about one thing. his hair. no, i love it. it s so much better. i used to kind of have to like put it back in some way so it wouldn t fly in my face while i m doing my tricks. now i m faster. he s getting old. 27 years old. doesn t like long hair. those bizarre twin toilets drawing attention last month, they re at it. this shot with two fully geared up skiers on tuesday. there was a caption in russian underneath that pic. loosely translated it says, foreign athletes love to pose on strange toilets in sochi. they are unique, are they not. not everybody watches super bowl. last night on jimmy kimmel he found a bunch of them. how do you think tom brady did last night? i thought tom brady was great. tom brady killed it last night actually. he threw real well to the seattle receivers. did you think it was heartwarming when the seahawks let that kid play during the
rest of your life. law enforcement is paying attention. so again, this is not something to play with. i think you have to be proactive on it and walk that fine balance between giving something too much attention versus ignoring it. i think what we re trying to do at least is play it right down the middle, which is something may be going on. we want to alert the public to it. pay attention to what s going on around you. young people, cut it out before you get yourself in trouble. mayor nutter the mayor of philadelphia saying whether it s real or not he s not going to stand for it. it s assault regardless and you will be prosecuted. thank you for joining us on the 11th hour. thank you, don. and congratulations. thank you very much. so we agree. hitting people in the hid is bad. but what about letting people hit your kids in the head over and over again? that s what happens to kids as young as 7 who play football. in a minute, the growing number of parents who say no way will my