Indianapolis Colts tight end Dallas Clark seems like a relatively quiet, mild-mannered guy. Sure, there was that time when he got angry about his portrayal in a Madden commercial, but I could understand how he felt about seeing a virtual version of himself getting jacked up. Aside from that, Clark has never caused a fuss.Until now. Clark was kicked out of a high school girls' basketball game in his native Iowa on Saturday.
Clark, a Livermore native and former Iowa football player, was asked to leave the gymnasium late in the third quarter of the district final game between Twin River Valley of Bode, where Clark attended high school, and Southeast Webster-Grand of Burnside in Burnside, two school officials said Monday.This doesn't seem like a major incident, just a strange one. He gets so riled up watching his alma mater's girls' basketball team that he can't keep his emotions in check? I'd hate to see how he'd feel if he saw himself taking a charge in a WNBA video game.
"I have seen other parents behave a lot worse, but he apparently got into one of the officials' ear," said Kirk Gilson, the athletic director at Southeast Webster-Grand. "I really don't know what led up to it, but apparently one of the referees didn't like what he heard from him."
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Just one think I wanna know what the hell was dallas clark doing at a girls basketball game HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
Unless the refs where being threatend physically, then they should have left Dallas alone. Yelling at the refs is part of the game for the fans. IF they where making bad calls, then the fans (Dallas Clark in this case) have a right to fuss. If you dont have a thick skin, then dont officiate any sport, whatsoever.
i rather see him there instead of a boys team lets hope he was showing his ring
Basketball is big in small towns in Iowa. The fact that Dallas went to the game would be perfectly normal. My guess is the referee was a Bears fan and was trying to have the final say about the Super Bowl.
Hey Skidarbone..........people like you is what gives youth sports a bad name. Just because he's Dallas Clark does NOT give him the right to berate an official. And people like you who think it's okay, are a minority and should stay away from kids sports.
What Bob said
Way to go Bob, people like Skidabone is what is wrong with kids sports. As an exsocer referee I know first hand. Most people who referee are either young people who play the sport and want to make a couple of buck. Or people like I was, someone who loves the game. I assure everyone that the few dollars that are paid are not enough to hardly cover expenses much less put up with jerks.
No Doubt the ref was a Bears fans and could not take the heat Dallas was dishing him. Or a whimpy ref in general who had his moment of glory. He is probably one of those guys who goes home and his wife slaps him around a bit.....Wonder if he feels Big now ????
jason, can't you read??? it was his alma mater. Wait, you'd have to graduate to have an alma mater. I retract that. (retract means I take it back)
This is just another example that the media in this country have nothing better to do than try to stir things up and make people look bad. Forget why Dallas Clark was at a girls basketball game in Iowa. Why the heak is the media doing a story about Dallas Clark being at a girls basketball game in Iowa? Is that seriously someones career? Sounds pretty pitiful to me!
" Unless the refs where being threatend physically, then they should have left Dallas alone. Yelling at the refs is part of the game for the fans. IF they where making bad calls, then the fans (Dallas Clark in this case) have a right to fuss. If you dont have a thick skin, then dont officiate any sport, whatsoever."
While this may be true in PRO sports and to some extent college, this was a High School game. Perhaps Clark hears how fans yell at the Refs in the NFL and thinks this is norm for all sporting events.
What's the big deal? This is another example of a small incident blown out of proportion because of his celebrity. I'd rather have him kicked out of a girls basketball game for yelling at a ref, rather than getting alcohol, drug, or gun charges like a lot of these other athletes do. QUIT MAKING A BIG DEAL OUT OF NOTHING!
Did anyone think that maybe Dallas has a younger sister who plays b-ball? I don't know, but Lowell is right - in Iowa girls b-ball is and has been a major sport for years (Iowa was one of the first states to have a girls sports program - and girls b-ball used to be 6 on 6 half court style - a major tradition), so visiting your old alum to see a playoff game is just good community and family time fun. So Dallas has a big mouth - you need to be able to yell to hear above those NFL fans sometimes in the huddle ... he just got carried away and a ref couldn't focus. Ah, for the good ole' days when you could yell at refs and not have their feelings hurt.
Listen, the media tries to stir things up and take it way out of proportion. He can go to whatever game he wants to, if anybody thinks for one second that dallas clark has trouble getting chicks then they are retarded. Sorry gals but all he has to say is "hey i play for the indianapolis colts and bam." He does need to keep his mouth quiet though, its uncalled for to do that at a youth sports game!
FYI- Dallas' wife was the girls basketball coach at Twin River Valley... not sure if she still is, but she was, so I think that gives him significant reason to be there and invested in the game/team. I really think things got blown out of proportion... the principal said it really wasn't a big deal and hardly anyone at the game noticed what happened.
Dallas is an angel, so this is really not a big deal.
FYI- Dallas' wife was the girls basketball coach at Twin River Valley... not sure if she still is, but she was, so I think that gives him significant reason to be there and invested in the game/team. I really think things got blown out of proportion... the principal said it really wasn't a big deal and hardly anyone at the game noticed what happened.
Dallas is an angel, so this is really not a big deal.
i know the refs and one of them is a dick on a power trip, probably thought he would get his name is the paper for kicking him out, dallas is one of the nicest guys you will ever meet, home-grown ia boy
thats probably the most pub that city will ever get.
my wife is from this area and its pretty much a known fact that Dallas is one of the nicest and down to earth hometown guys you could want tot be around.
as others have already said, girls b-ball is huge in iowa and even bigger in northwest iowa. so get off his back about being at a girls game
I DONT THINK THERE IS ANYTHING WRONG WITH AN ATHLETE GOING TO A HOMETOWN GAME. MALE OR FEMALE HE IS HUMAN AND ALL THESE PEOPLE THAT THING SOMETHING ILICIT ABOUT IT OUGHT TO THINK ABOUT THERESELVES. WOULD THEY GO TO A HOMETOWN GAME IF THERE FANS OF THAT GAME???? HIS WIFE IS THE COACH. I DONT THINK WHAT THE BIG DEAL IS. I AGREE WITH THE PERSON THAT SAID THE REF JUST WANTED HIS NAME IN THE LOCAL PAPER. BY THE WAY IT IS FREE PUBLICITY FOR HIM...