Young Football Players Trash Talk Off Field Out Of Hand
10/09/2008 03:32
Officials with the Manitoba Minor Football Association are investigating threats allegedly made on the internet by teenaged members of one team against members of a rival team.
The threats were allegedly made by a couple of North Winnipeg Nomads players against rivals on the Crescentwood Grizzlies on the popular social-networking website Facebook. The players are at the bantam level, for 14-year-old boys and girls.
Parents and coaches of the Grizzlies players took the threats so seriously that they cancelled a game against the Nomads last weekend.
The coach of the Grizzlies did not respond to CBC's request for an interview, but Jim Carson, manager of the Crescentwood Community Club, said action had to be taken.
"You leave it on the field. This went beyond that, whether the kids that did it realize it or not," he said. "The threat had to be taken seriously."
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SWIVEL HIPS SAYS:
Why does this story not surprise me? To be honest, I’ve heard a lot of negative feedback about the social networking site “facebook” and what transpires on that Internet site.