Headbutting

1. This is very disturbing, why would someone do such a thing? The video isn't as clear as I thought it would be. It doesn't look as bad but clearly by looking at the picture it was bad.
2. I think that you should play by the rules. Clearly you cannot do what this young man did. I think that tackling someone in football is an expectation, but if you walked up to someone and tackled them in the parking lot its different. In football you are going to expect to be hit, but a normal citizen isn't going to expect to be tackled.
3. Victim- As the victim I could not be very happy. But I don't think I would want all this media attention for getting headbutted in a football game. I think this is one of those negative media attention. I don't think I would have made a big deal about it. I mean I think that the other guy should have gotten the two day suspension maybe even more.
Criminal- This would be one of those things that may have seemed like a good idea at the time, but I would feel way bad afterwords. I mean its a good hit, there was no need for me to take his helmet off and headbutt him. There isn't much I can do about the situation, It's clearly on tape and all I can do is wait it out and hope for the best. I don't think I deserve to be charged criminally for this.
Victims Parents- We need to get this solved now. This is not tolerable our son did not deserve this. I think that the young man who committed this act should be charged criminally. This is unacceptable.
Criminals Parents- Our kid has never done such a thing. He goes to church every week, he volunteers, The victim must of said something to set him off. I think that my son doesn't deserve such a punishment. I think that this needs to be further investigated to see if harassment was happening before hand.
Police- We are currently not releasing any information, what you know is what you know. Obviously this is a tough situation and this kid did not deserve what happened to him. We will investigate and make the right decisions upon the situation.
Team mates of victim- If I was a team mate I think that I would fight the kid, I don't care if I got suspended, I think that this was wrong and I wouldn't want to see one of my team members down. This is stupid, why headbutt him?
Team mates of criminal- If I was a team mate of the criminal I would feel bad for the other kid, no one deserves to be headbutted, even if they aren't on my team.
The coach- This is unlike one of my players. We have trained to hard this season to have something like this happen. This kid is a good kid, he gets good grades, and meets all my expectations. We all get a little frustration and unfortunately he took it out the wrong way. I would like to apologize to the young man who was injured and his family.
The athletic Director- As of now we have suspended him for two games and that is the most that the school will be doing at this point. From here on out we will have a NO TOLERANCE policy on unsportsmanlike on the field, weather this be in practice or in a game.