Stats4Gnats posted:All those obnoxious or inconsiderate things mentioned do nothing but reduce the enjoyment of fans showing up at a field to watch a ball game, and often have a negative impact on the players, coaches, and officials. It would be wonderful if everyone was considerate, but that’s never gonna happen without a little “nudging”. The question then, is who has the authority to “nudge”?
In general, I’d say whoever owns or otherwise has responsibility for the field show take the lead. It’s pretty simple to establish conduct guidelines, but the trick is in their enforcement. It would really be great to have someone at every game who was given the authority to speak on behalf of the field owners.
This was HS football, but last season some parents of our local HS football team players (only one HS in the county) had to be "escorted" away out of the stadium at an away game due to comments they were directing towards "our" coach.
At every home football game after that incident, there was a statement read by the AD (prior to the game) about sportsmanlike conduct from the fans and players alike.
As far as I remembered, a similar statement had always been read prior to every home baseball game when my son played, but not the football games.
Basically the host of the game has the authority to "nudge" as you put it.
I always found it interesting that a typical home game had 8-12 deputies on site (crowd control) vs none (or almost none) at an average home baseball game. Guess it had something to with 1500-2000 attending a HS football game vs 100-150 at a baseball game.