Gunslinger Other Than Brett Favre At Football Game

The newspapers expound today on the father who pulled a gun at his son’s pee-wee football game Sunday.

Turns out it was pretty much like the original reports made it out to be: Dad argues over playing time, coach doesn’t listen, dad pulls gun, fracas breaks out, referee ends up punching dad’s brother. Allegedly. (Add it to that graphic over there, too.)

From the accounts, the referee did the right thing, it seems. When the gun broke out, he pulled all the players over to the far sideline, and he says he was trying to block the dad’s car so he could write down its license plate when the brother came over and started something. Nonetheless, referee Shawn Henwood was arrested. But, how can someone be guilty when he speaks so well!

“All of a sudden, we hear ‘Fight! Fight!’ ” said Henwood. “I see a gentleman pounding on another gentleman. Then we hear, ‘He’s got a gun! He’s got a gun!’ “

Gentleman? Ha. It’s also good to know that no matter the age level, when a fight breaks out, everyone yells “Fight! Fight!”

The father, Wayne Derkotch, didn’t comment yesterday, and, uh, pulling a gun? Not the right thing to do. Fighting with the coach isn’t the thing to do, either, but coach Jermaine Wilson is apparently no saint, either:

Derkotch asked Wilson why his son wasn’t getting enough playing time in the game. According to police, Wilson said that “he liked to run up the score before he put in other players.”

The Daily News Ronnie Polaneczky, though, establishes the rules for parents at sporting events: “So let me be the first to post Rule No. 1: Leave the gun at home.” Gee, thanks. Who woulda known?

Gun at pee-wee football: Sad lesson [Inquirer]
A dad and the ref are charged [Daily News]
Ronnie Polaneczky | A gun at a kids’ game? A GUN? [Daily News]
Yesterday: Outlaws, Raiders Somehow Involved In Fracas