Helmets clash

1. What are your thoughts about this case? How did the video make you feel or think? Should the athlete be charged criminally for this act? Why/Why not?

2. When competing in contact sports, should you have the same rights and protections as you would as an ordinary citizen regarding assault or should there be an expectation of violence? Why/Why not?

3. From each stakeholder perspective I want you to answer the following:
Here are the stakeholders: both players, each players parent, police (or state), teammates of both players, the coach, the athletic director and principal. FROM EACH OF THESE PERSPECTIVES I WANT YOU TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS SO YOU SHOULD HAVE 9 different stakeholder perspectives!!

How would this make you feel?
What would you want done about this situation?
What would you do about this situation?


I believe that this guy who head butted the kid should be kicked out of the team because that was the stupidest thing I have seen. It is very dishonorable and he should be fined even more because that could have given him a severe brain injury. I don't care if he didn't like that guy. If i didn't like a certain tennis player, i won't hit him with my raquet. The video made me feel sick. I wouldn't do that to my worst enemy. I think that he should be charged for such a act because he intended to probably severely hurt the guy and if he had intent to doing that, he should be charged for the crime.
I think that violence is violence and no matter what sport you are in, you should be charged like an ordinary citizen because as i said, a crime is still a crime. If he did that after a football game and it was on the street corner, he should be charged for the same crime as he would doing it on the field.
Both Players: I would be upset if i was the guy who got head butted and if i was the guy who head butted the guy, i would punish myself or kick my own butt. I wouldn't want charges to be pressed. I would be apologizing to the guy who i head butted and assist him in anything he needs.

Victim: I would be pissed off about what happened to the guy who did this to me. I would want charges to be pressed and i would want him to be kicked out of the team for good for such an unsportsmanlike conduct. I would press charges.

Head Butting parents:
We would be ashamed of our kid doing such an act and punish him at home for doing this. we would make him apologize and hope that no charges would be charged. I would want him to face the light and have charges filed against him.

Victim's Parents: We would be very upset and mad. We want him to be in prison and would want him to be kicked off the team indefinitely.

Police: We probably wouldn't make a big deal of this and not make him feel bad because he is feeling like crap already. I would arrest the kid and hope for the best for him

Victim's teammates: We are upset that he did something like this. We want that kid to pay for the crime he committed. We want him to be kicked out of the team indefenitely.

Butting coach: I am upset that my player did something like this but I am hoping that no charges will be filed.. I don't want any charges to be filed.