28 February 2014 (11:19 UTC-07 Tango)/27 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1435/09 Esfand 1392/29 Bing-Yin (1st month) 4712

On 22 February 2014, the Rathdrum Parks and Recreation Department, in northern Idaho, held an “experimental no cheer day” basketball game.  Any parents caught cheering were placed in time out.

Recreation coordinator, Justin Brown, said he got the idea after attending a sporting event in NAZI-land San Diego, California.  He says the new theory in the new children’s sporting industry is that kids play better if their parents are shut up.

The Rathdrum Parks and Recreation experiment was a big fail, as more than a dozen of parents were placed in time out, including teacher Cherish Hansen: “My daughter made a free-throw, I had to shout!”

A grandma expressed shock at the idea of not cheering for your grandkids: “Nobody had ever heard of this before. I thought, ‘I’m going to get thrown out right off the bat.'”-Lorna Allen, and yes she made it into time out

Even Brown admitted his NAZI plan failed.  He said parents were allowed to clap but even that backfired on him: “I’ve never heard them clap that loudly before!”

The NAZI Rathdrum Parks and Recreation actually employed two “referees” to monitor the parents!  They handed out a total of 15 “parent penalties”.

If I remember right, cheering for the home team is the main reason people go to watch a sporting event.