Well, it takes some guts to publically say you are sorry. I'm pretty sure a lot of parents have done the same or worse and felt completely justified in acting like an ass in public because something bad happened to their kid. Including me.

I've got no clue what happened, but I'm sure I've been there and done that, or close to it at one time or another while raising/coaching/protecting my son. At the time, his pee-wee sport, whatever it was, was very important to me and I was way too emotionally involved in the outcome and had no comprehension that what he was doing meant very little in the big scheme of things, in fact, he'd been better off doing things to strenthen his intellect. Not many grown men make a living wrestling. I had no perspective, no tolerance for mistakes by others, real or perceived, and thought my son had star potential written all over him (I still think that, in general, but he's 34 now).

With my own experience as a wrestler, parent, kids' coach, and 15 years as a high school offical, I think we have allowed unsportsmanlike conduct to permeate our sport and its getting worse. But it permeates our society, doesn't it? Aren't we all ruder, more demanding, less forgiving than our parents were? when our kids are involved, don't we all tend to blame others, refuse to look inward for the shortcomings, and assume that our child's failures are caused by events beyond his/her control?

So don't be too hard on this gentlemen, even if he might not have been one at this particular moment.