(Snoop shares a secret with his young charges : Lee Iacocca’s sweat smells like formadehyde)
The above headline was supplied by Laure Parsons, who alerts us to the following scandal in the youth football ranks, as covered by The Guardian’s Dan Glaister (mostly culled from a prior story by the LA Times’ Steven Barrie-Anthony) :
His lazy drawl and laid back demeanour may be the stage trade marks of Snoop Dogg.
But the mums and dads of his neighbourhood in Los Angeles have come to know the actor and rapper in a slightly more go-getting guise – competitive dad. And some of them are not happy.
Trouble began when Snoop became a junior American football coach and dedicated himself to the Rowland High School team that his sons were playing for.
His lazy drawl and laid back demeanour may be the stage trade marks of Snoop Dogg.
But the mums and dads of his neighbourhood in Los Angeles have come to know the actor and rapper in a slightly more go-getting guise – competitive dad. And some of them are not happy.
Trouble began when Snoop became a junior American football coach and dedicated himself to the Rowland High School team that his sons were playing for.
Other parents marvelled as the megastar appeared in their midst, and so did youngsters from rival teams. At the end of the first season, star players at other schools received calls from Snoop asking if they wanted to swap sides.
The tactic worked and when the team of 8- to 10-year-olds won the league, Snoop bought them scooters.
The following year his all-star team won the league again, travelling to games on their customised bus, equipped with TV monitors and bass-heavy sound system pumping out the team’s theme song, Drop It Like It’s Hot, by Snoop Dogg.
The team also won the Snooperbowl in Florida before a crowd of 15,000 fans (Snoop performed at half-time). The victorious team took home trophies donated by Tiffany & Co.
Snoop, though, has now taken matters a stage further and set up his own league – the Snoop Youth Football League.
“I think what Snoop did is just so shallow,” Sandy Gonzales, who has two boys in what remains of the Rowland squad, told the Los Angeles Times. “He came here just so that he could take away from us what we’d taken many years to establish.”
Not nearly as much outcry about baseball’s Cal Ripken League, strangely enough.