(CelebNMusic247-News) Friday Night Tykes Under Fire
Have you seen the new boy version of Dance Mom’s, Toddler and Tiaras called Friday Night Tykes?
Basically the new reality show is depicting kid football players told by demented coaches to smash into one another has become controversy catnip, but it is a nuanced program that looks like Fellini next to other exploitative offerings.
It’s another series of kids being bullied by parents to do their best, this time it’s coaches yelling at possible up and coming football players.
With coaches telling 9-year-olds, “I want you to put it in his helmet… I don’t care if you don’t get up. Let’s go!” The show has parents around the nation raising their eyebrows and questioning the show morals and integrity.
Are reality TV shows like Friday Night Tykes good for TV?
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While one mom shows support for her son to be the best football player he can be in hopes that one days he makes the NFL proves this is a parents dream to have a superstar son. But are the pressures for a boy too much?
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Many parents feel it is NOT, since it is exploiting America’s youth just for a buck. Here is what is being said about Friday Night Tykes.
The sound of one child’s football helmet smashing into another’s is a horrible, jarring clang and crunch, made all the worse because the children are so small, and the poor kid who comes off worse goes in a split second from lightning-fast scamper to hitting the ground like a stone.
We saw that awful image in the first episode of the deceptively joshingly-titledFriday Night Tykes, about a collection of San Antonio teams in the Texas Youth Football Association (TYFA) and the demented coaches who train them.
The Esquire Network documentary series features 8- and 9-year-old boys used as exocet missiles and mini-fighting machines by a group of coaches, bizarrely and ragefully under the impression that they are training would-be assassins, rather than young children the art of team sports.
Once coach roars:
“You have the opportunity to rip their freaking head off and let them bleed.”
“Don’t give me that soft crap. You gonna let them hurt you? I couldn’t care less if they cry.” The justification for this verbal abuse seems to be that the children benefit from strong leadership and would become better students and adults for it.”
Inevitably Friday Night Tykes has become controversy catnip:
the Huffington Post says:
“Reality TV has submerged to profound depths - The trailer is definitely troubling to watch.”
An NFL spokesman said before it had even begun, adding that TYFA was not part of its Heads Up Football Program, which aims to improve player safety in youth football. Esquire said the show was intended to be informative, but seems to be failing with the way the show is presented and parents are NOT fond of this new reality series.
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