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In South Florida recently, two football moms endured a nightmarish season in which their sons—both age 9—suffered horrific verbal and physical abuse.
The kids were subjected to a five-day-a-week practice schedule for six months, were called fat a**, retard, lazy, and stupid, and rarely played on game day.
As one mom said, “It’s kind of intimidating. You have four or five coaches out there, and they’re all men, and you have a whole group of dads standing, watching, and also yelling. As mothers, we just sat there, and it was very difficult to hear. I didn’t know what to say. The coaches wanted to win, so they did whatever it took to win is what I think basically happened that season. When they should have been coaching and building morale and uplifting the kids, it was the opposite.”