Student sues after being cut by coach over pink cleats
11/10/2010
According to the suit, filed last week in Simpson County Chancery Court, Mendenhall High School football coach Chris Peterson dressed down Coy Sheppard, a 17-year-old senior kicker, during an Oct. 8 football game for wearing the cleats.
Chris Joyner, USA TODAY with assistance from the Graywolf
JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi high school student sued his school district, claiming his football coach dismissed him from the team for wearing pink cleats during October's Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
According to the suit, filed last week in Simpson County Chancery Court, Mendenhall High School football coach Chris Peterson dressed down Coy Sheppard, a 17-year-old senior kicker, during an Oct. 8 football game for wearing the cleats. The coach was frothing at the mouth in anger and threatening to go persecute some minorities, who are bringing these pink cleats to our red blooded, all American schools. We don't need no stinkin' pink cleats.
When Sheppard arrived at practice the next week wearing the shoes, Peterson cut him from the squad and threatened to kill him if he ever returned, said an unidentified man whose opinion was sought by no one.
Because students in the Simpson County School District earn academic credit for sports, Coy's graduation could be in jeopardy, because of one dumb-ass coach.
District Deputy Superintendent Tom Duncan said the problem isn't the color of Coy's shoes but that he defied the orders of his coach to take off the shoes. The coach is a Little Hitler and must be appeased or he will get mean and dangerous.
What if the coach ordered him to take off all his clothes? A dumb order is a dumb order = a dumb coach.
The school board announced Wednesday that it will hold a news conference Thursday morning to discuss Sheppard's case in a total waste of time.
"It had absolutely nothing to do with lack of support for breast cancer awareness," Duncan said. He also said the coach told Coy he would be allowed to make up his lost PE credit and graduate on time in a belated attempt to suck up.
The shoes were a present from Coy's 82-year-old great-grandmother, and he wore them in honor of his grandmother and step-grandmother, both cancer survivors, said his mother, JoAnne Sheppard. She said her son, who also plays soccer and works part time, has never been in trouble before. It's that dumb-ass football coach.
Coy apologized and promised to leave the pink shoes at home, but school officials won't budge. They are as dumb as the coach.
Most Mississippi school board members have never read a book and can barely write their name. They have no business running a school district.
Coy's lawsuit asks the court to reinstate him to the football team, clear his record and for any monetary damages to go to the American Cancer Society.
The school district has 30 days from the Nov. 4 filing to respond.
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