Have you ever witnessed infighting on the court?

Glenn · 11:30 AM

Infighting, I was wondering id anyone has ever witness to another team screaming or yelling at each other? I notice this behavior from time-to-time players actually yelling at their very own teammates, during a game.

I was witness to this a few weeks ago when a co-ed team was actually screaming at one of their female players. I wanted to go over and stick up for her, not to be a gentlemen, but to bring them down a few dozen notches. By the time I had walked over the drama and stopped and the tournament director actually had words with the players on her team.

Have you ever experienced this behavior and what happened?

strazzere · 08-07-2006, 04:09 PM

See it all the time.

Yesterday when I was shooting some doubles games. One team (who was also a couple) where screaming at each other. The male called a timeout and SCREAMED so everyone heard to his teammate/gf "TIME OUT! GO TAKE A DAMN WALK AND GET YOUR HEAD IN THE GAME!" and walked away. I half wanted to laugh, half wanted to run away for fear of being stabbed...

BHitterDPasser · 08-07-2006, 04:23 PM

Worst I ever saw was a father-son team where the son was ~11 and he was making mistakes and laughing as young kids sometimes do and the father was red faced screaming at him.

strazzere · 08-07-2006, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by BHitterDPasser

Worst I ever saw was a father-son team where the son was ~11 and he was making mistakes and laughing as young kids sometimes do and the father was red faced screaming at him.
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Completely irrelivent.... But I just read that - and went... "Geek"

Then I went "oh crap... I'm the geek - I got the dumb joke"

Now I feel like a geek too... Damn you and your computer humor... (I bet only glenn and maybe NERT get it too...)

Glenn · 08-07-2006, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by strazzere

Completely irrelivent.... But I just read that - and went... "Geek"

Then I went "oh crap... I'm the geek - I got the dumb joke"

Now I feel like a geek too... Damn you and your computer humor... (I bet only Glenn and maybe NERT get it too...)

Yep I got it and smiling, I have to see there is probably 11, one is scared to admit it!

Glenn · 08-07-2006, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by BHitterDPasser

Worst I ever saw was a father-son team where the son was ~11 and he was making mistakes and laughing as young kids sometimes do and the father was red faced screaming at him.

There is a place for everything and daddy should have spoken to his son on private.

I once watched a farther slap his son at a club match, the coach got in the mans face and totally lost it. I wish I knew more about the aftermath of the incident, but I don't. P.S. this was in TX. I have never seem this behavior in VB since. I have seen it in Soccer, Hockey and Baseball. Volleyball is a 99% Parental Free Zone!

Glenn

strazzere · 08-07-2006, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Glenn

There is a place for everything and daddy should have spoken to his son on private.

I once watched a farther slap his son at a club match, the coach got in the mans face and totally lost it. I wish I knew more about the aftermath of the incident, but I don't. P.S. this was in TX. I have never seem this behavior in VB since. I have seen it in Soccer, Hockey and Baseball. Volleyball is a 99% Parental Free Zone!

Glenn

At one of my home tournaments, the finals actually. We were facing a thus far undefeated team. One of the parents was talking trash about us to his son. And said he was humiliated that he was not putting the ball down.

Needless to say - after hearing this, we jumped higher, blocked better. They set him nearly every time, nearly everytime he swung harder. Each time we blocked it better and better. Only made them more angry. Made us play better.

Finally they started blocked were a few comments from our crowd rang "haha he can't hit past us - he can't even put a dink down".

I'll always remember the father storming out of the rec center cursing.

kvb · 08-08-2006, 08:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Glenn

Yep I got it and smiling, I have to see there is probably 11, one is scared to admit it!

That third geek would be me. Having gone to undergrad and grad for mechanical and electrical engineering, respectively, I got the joke, just didn't want to admit it.

mycena · 08-08-2006, 08:58 AM

You're all a bunch of geeks. Especially since it took you so long to finally see it. hahaha

As for infighting. Other than Air Diney and NERT coming to blows a few times......

sillystring34 · 08-08-2006, 12:28 PM

I played on team where all 4 of the players did was fight with each other, and with everyone else. It got so bad one night one of the guys and the ref ended up taclking each other on the ground. Needless to say, I dont play with them anymore.