Ohio youth team kicked out of rec league over offensive jerseys

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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 League’s 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 don’t 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 shouldn’t have to deal with bigotry and lewd innuendos on jerseys and in team names in a school district represented recreational basketball league. This isn’t a typo, this isn’t 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?”





https://www.yahoo.com/sports/ohio-youth-team-kicked-rec-league-offensive-jerseys-185930020.html

[edbermac]

1. I was just going to post this story.

The last sentence of your post says it all.

Sigh. Some people just love to revel in their own stupidity.

[MineralMan]

2. WTF? Who thought that crap up?

Whoever it is should be barred from any supervision of children forever.

[OnDoutside]

3. Meanwhile

, an American president is in collision with Russia to screw the USA.

[Iggo]

4. And those are the fuckfaces that voted for him.

[NCTraveler]

5. It has had a deep societal impact in a short time.

Bigots have been emboldened.

[3catwoman3]

6. "how such attire...was deemed appropriate..."

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]

7. Time to reach out to parents and coachs of the "Wet Dream Team" . . .

. . . so as better to understand their "economic anxiety."

[Tipperary]

8. Thats just mind boggling.

This country scares me.

[tblue37]

9. And the coach spouts the standard non-apology "apology":

The team’s coach, Walt Gill, apologized “to anyone that was offended by the jerseys.”

[left-of-center2012]

10. Either they were stupid to think this was OK

Or they were stupid to think it would be funny.