We'd Be Lost As A Society Without The Dad Who Screams "WHEELS!" At Every Sporting Event
All across the country, schools are letting out and summer is right around the corner. That means one thing and one thing only--summer lacrosse tournament season is upon us.
Every Saturday and Sunday for the next few weeks, you'll see dads pulling up to fields at 6:30am in their Chevy Tahoe's with one Yeti filled with Gatorades and Uncrustables, and another Yeti filled with some adult sodas for the men. The first game is on field 5, second game of the day over at field 9, and then they wrap up the day back on field 5. The lacrosse dads have it all mapped out. They scoped out the perfect spot to set up the team tent, threw a little extra something in their morning coffee to get them prepared for a full day of berating refs making $25 per game, and are ready to rock.
But most importantly…they are ready to scream "WHEELS! WHEELS! WHEELS!" at the top of their lungs all day long anytime a kid on the team picks up the ball in the middle of the field.
We, as a society, would be lost without these men. How else would kids know they're supposed to run fast when they have the ball? And if they don't know that, then how on Earth could we ever expect them to know anything? Without dads screaming "WHEELS", nothing in this world would ever get done. Infrastructure would crumble, banks would fail, law and order would cease to exist.
So whether you're that dad yourself, or a coach of a team that has 15 of those dads on the sideline every week, just know that these are the men who make the world turn. Here's to hoping that each and every one of them have a great summer, and only get kicked out of like one or two tournaments for make a 15-year-old ref cry.