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Ohio youth team kicked out of rec league over offensive jerseys
Yahoo Sports Dan Devine,Yahoo Sports 1 hour 7 minutes ago
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A boys basketball team has been kicked out of a Cincinnati-area recreational hoops league for wearing uniforms bearing a sexually suggestive team name on the front and racially objectionable names on the back. (Photos via Tony Rue on Facebook)
A boys basketball team has been kicked out of a Cincinnati-area recreational hoops league for wearing uniforms bearing a sexually suggestive team name on the front and racially objectionable names on the back.
Four weeks into the Cincinnati Premier Youth Basketball Leagues season, parents of players on a team from West Clermont, Ohio, saw that the team from Kings Mills, Ohio, against whom their children were playing was named The Wet Dream Team. They also noticed that the names on the backs of the high-school-aged boys jerseys included phrases like Knee Grow and Coon.
Tony Rue, a parent of a West Clermont player, highlighted the eyebrow-raising jerseys in a lengthy Facebook post asking how such attire, and such a team name, was deemed appropriate for a league that hosts players from grades two through 12.
By no means are we perfect parents or assume our teenage boys are innocent and dont speak of things like this, but I could never imagine allowing my teenage son to represent his school and league in this manner, let alone representing our family with such filth, Rue wrote. [ ] There is enough hate, bullying, and aggressive behavior in the world that these kids, parents, and schools shouldnt have to deal with bigotry and lewd innuendos on jerseys and in team names in a school district represented recreational basketball league. This isnt a typo, this isnt a mistake, these are ideas that were thought of, discussed, agreed upon by adults and kids alike, printed on uniforms, social media accounts registered and manned and no one thought this was a bad idea or inappropriate?
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edbermac
(15,945 posts)The last sentence of your post says it all.
Sigh. Some people just love to revel in their own stupidity.
MineralMan
(146,329 posts)Whoever it is should be barred from any supervision of children forever.
OnDoutside
(19,969 posts), an American president is in collision with Russia to screw the USA.
Iggo
(47,565 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Bigots have been emboldened.
3catwoman3
(24,039 posts)Tony Rue, a parent of a West Clermont player, highlighted the eyebrow-raising jerseys in a lengthy Facebook post asking how such attire, and such a team name, was deemed appropriate for a league that hosts players from grades two through 12.
Such attire and such a team name would be innapropriate anywhere and for teams of any age. How completely disgusting.
hatrack
(59,592 posts). . . so as better to understand their "economic anxiety."
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)This country scares me.
tblue37
(65,483 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Or they were stupid to think it would be funny.