Have you ever been watching some sort of game, like baseball, basketball, football, soccer, etc. and the players get aggravated by the referee/umpire? Well this is exactly what happened in the article, "Referee punched in face by teen player dies." According to CNN, the referee's call about the game, "prompted the 17-year-old player to turn around and punch Portillo in the face." I know kids and teenagers don't always agree with what the referee or umpire has to say or his call, but that's one of those things in life that you just have to get over. There's no reason to punch someone in the face just because y'all didn't exactly agree. The article also says, "But after he was taken to a hospital, doctors discovered he had suffered serious internal head injuries, police said."You see people get upset at referees all the time, but never take it to this extreme. This man was just trying to do his job and ended up dying from head injuries because a teenager can't control himself.
Not only did this kid affect this referee, obviously, but also his family. Portillo's daughter says, "We just never thought this was going to happen. He loved what he did and it was his passion." Now this kid has to live with the guilt of making this family's life miserable for the rest of his life. And it was all over a small disagreement with someone he didn't even know. "As for the teenager, he remains in juvenile detention." As bad as I hate to say it, that's where he needs to be. If you're going to be an athlete, you have to learn to deal with the referees, even when you think their call was 100% wrong. There's no reason for anyone to take a small disagreement to punching someone in the face.
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