Otay Ranch Broncos Protest Expulsion After Parents Fight

The Otay Ranch Broncos were supposed to compete in a football game Saturday night – but instead they protested outside the stadium while two other teams played.

Last Saturday a fight broke out between parents in the stands while the Broncos and the Inland Empire Ducks played, resulting in the San Diego Youth Football league expelling both teams. Watch the video here. 

Leo Dorado, whose son has been on the team for three years, believes the expulsion was unjustified. “Whatever happened out there with the parents - that’s on them,” Doardo told NBC7. “They should get those parents out of the league, whatever they have to do, not the kids.”

As with many of the players, this is the last season before high school for Dorado’s son. “He’s just trying to finish up whatever he started with these boys.”

Paulette Roberts’ son is also playing in his last season with the league. “They did nothing wrong,” Roberts’ said. “The parents didn't even do anything wrong but we're taking blame for one of our parents who did do something wrong.”

Roberts’ son agrees with his mom.

“They should just ban those parents that were fighting and just go on with the season,” Travis Hall Jr. said. “I hope we will be reinstated to the league and they will somehow repay us for the games we missed."

He etold NBC7 he he feels mistreated and like they don’t have a voice.

On Wednesday morning, SDYFC Commissioner Cathy Luna sent an email to Broncos and Ducks leaders, informing them that their U14 teams were expelled for the rest of the season, according to Ducks Coach Keefe Pierson.

Rev. Shane Harris, president of the National Action Network, launched a civil lawsuit into the commission and Cathy Luna on Wednesday. “We have heard nothing that is why we are standing here today,” Harris said at the protest Saturday.

NBC 7 has reached out to the SDYFC about this story, but have not heard back.

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