An equipment bag belonging to the New Canaan High School Rams football team was reportedly stolen and urinated on during the annual Thanksgiving Turkey Bowl in Darien Thursday morning.
Darien Police told the Darien Times that the culprits urinated on a New Canaan player’s property while it was in the team's locker room.
Police Capt. Fred Komm told the Times that it “doesn’t appear, at this time, that current Darien High School students were involved.”
The incident is reportedly under investigation.
The Darien High School Blue Wave football team won the game 36-23, taking home the 2012 Turkey Bowl Trophy for the first time since 2001.
The Rams, who now hold a record of 13-5-1 over The Wave in the Turkey Bowl, and an overall record of 48-34-2, were on a seven game winning streak coming into Thursday's game.
In 2010, five Darien players were removed from the team and suspended from school after they painted graffiti on New Canaan High School property, less than 36 hours before the rival schools were to face each other at the annual Thanksgiving Day game.
Editor's note: This article originally was published on Nov. 24. The time stamp has been changed for layout purposes on the Home page of Darien Patch.
You are correct about the NC girl who killed a jogger. To give her credit, she did stop and her case is in the courts. It is proper when an error is made you do not run and hide. Some might be annoyed that she has plead not guilty to texting and driving. Let the courts decided.
shredder didnt say it was at new canaan high school. he said they placed a video camera in their locker room. but its pretty obvious that he is joking. OMG
In the comments section of that article, I recounted other incidents in the past involving Darien school sports and bad behavior associated with it in previous years. Rob Trifone, the DHS football coach, reportedly had players and parents sign a no-tolerance agreement regarding bad behavior and participation. I'm waiting for Trifone to return my phone call to get more information on that.
Im sorry, but in reading your article that you attached, I see nothing that says players were suspended as a result of the fight. It is my recollection , that being at an underage drinking party, was resulted in the suspension. My point here is--there seems to be an interest to malign the football program.My guess is, that over the past 5 years, some other sport had an athletes suspended because they were at a party. (Im sure Post 53 members have been at partys) but they dont make the news, because they are not on the football team. Disagree? Then why havent other teams athletes' made the news? This latest incident is by non DHS students. Indict the adult Darien Community this time
Trifone and father of kid arrested last year coached together at youth level. It's not unreasonable to question what kind of values those men are teaching the boys that come through their programs both at the youth and varsity level. It's been proven over and over that football coaches can leave a lifelong impression on young men.
Over the past several years, there have been a number of news accounts related to Darien youth violence and vandalism related to sports. Can the same be said for similar towns, such as New Canaan and Wilton? Setting aside any over-the-top language in this comments thread, Is it unreasonable to have a concern about this?
http://www.dariennewsonline.com/news/article/Second-arrest-made-in-youth-assault-investigation-2324915.php
this is the quote from the article you just linked Suspensions were for violation of team rules: being at the party Friday where alcohol was served.
I think that you want to arrive at your conclusion that : Over the past several years, there have been a number of news accounts related to Darien youth violence and vandalism related to sports. The latest incident didnt involve youths. Unless you want to expand it to non high school students, that are held to adult standards. Which Im not sure makes sense. If you want to include kids who attend prep schools and come home for vacation, im not entirely sure of the collective point. Are you trying to link DHS and it's sports philosophy to inapproriate behavior? If so, then the fight, aside from drinking (which does occur at wilton and new canaan) has no relevance. 1)If you want to link DHS football with the incidents-- then its only the spray paint. 2)If you want to link DHS students while in high school--its only the spray paint. 3) If you want to link link kids under 19 --then its only the fight and the spray paint. if you want to link everyone in darien--then its way more than the spray paint, the fight and the urination. Then its every crime committed. I think there is a misperception being fostered that DHS students are bad kids. And Im objecting to it.
The article I linked to doesn't explicitly state that the juvenile arrested last year was a football player. My understanding from someone who I think is a good source is that he was. I don't think it paints all or even most kids in Darien Football as bad to question whether there's a problem in the program. I think two incidents in two years directly involving the Turkey Bowl is plenty to raise questions (simply as a matter of "news judgment," which is another way of saying "Hey, this is worth thinking about"), but not enough to draw conclusions about the football program. If the people involved with this latest incident are not students, we still have an incident involving the Turkey Bowl, which involves the football program. And after calling for two days, I still haven't received a call back from Coach Trifone.
Just why does Coach Trifone have this particular "Code" that he wants students and parents to sign off on? I'd like to ask him that.
Anyways, who in their right mind calls the police over something ridiculous like this?
Fine--I blame Stuart Kindle. He played football in 1974 Turkey bowl. He is as much to blame for adults urinating on an equipment bag, as is number 73 and number 16 on the 2012 DHS football program, and the running backs coach. Heck, might as well blame number 83 as well.... and I will blame your parents who once watched a football game at DHS. I happen to think that whoever urinated on the bag, is responsible for urinating on the bag. Where the football program comes into play is unclear, other than they are playing a game on that day, and it feels better to report that they are all related. The football team was responsible for the spray painting 2 years ago. That pretty much sums it up. Ill go back to your previous statement "Can the same be said for similar towns, such as New Canaan and Wilton? " http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3WpBMU7tms wilton coach goes berserk http://newcanaan.patch.com/articles/wilton-wrestling-captain-arrested-for-theft-at-high-school http://wilton.patch.com/articles/police-westport-coach-gave-kids-porn-site-access http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/fairfield_cty/coaches-have-players-burn-trophies#.ULW0y2fbzzI http://newcanaan.patch.com/articles/nc-football-suspends-10-players-for-violating-team-rules No more room to post all the incidents.
I'm thinking that most would be willing to bear the social costs of reimbursing people with peed on bags for the ability to watch the Blue Wave at night, including the NC player with the peed-on bag who might get to play under the lights. Take your ridiculous arguments out of here.
Clearly you do not have your facts straight. The two kids suspended from the game were suspended for being at a drinking party...not for fighting. There were many kids at this party. Kids who do many sports...field Hockey, volleyball, soccer. In fact I heard from some of the kids that it was actually a field hockey party..celebrating a big win. But of course all of the other kids (boys and girls) ran. The kid arrested for fighting was a prep school kid who had in the past played football...he also played lax...should we go after the lax team? ...maybe if it was in lax season. The media is trying really really hard to make this 2011 fight into a turkey bowl incident. Not sure why...maybe to sell papers? Try not to be fooled...
Its obvious that you dont know Coach Trifone or the other man you mentioned or you wouldnt be calling out their character or questioning the values they teach their student athletes. Kids will make mistakes and they will learn from their mistakes, which is part of life. More inline with your point is forcing kids to burn 2nd place trophy's. As an aside, the fight last year was between two Darien kids, who had previously been teammates on the lacrosse team. Who knows what the fight was about but clearly had nothing to do with football or the Turkey bowl. Fighting among teen boys at a party is nothing new and I am amazed people are still talking about it. You are only trying to start trouble and are either obsessed or bitter about something.
http://www.darientimes.com/16280/darien-turkey-bowl-vandalism-two-get-probation/