Score 1 for the parents.

Ky. Parents Balk At Hooters Sponsoring Kids Team
8-Year-Old Not Allowed To Play

POSTED: 10:28 am EDT May 19, 2005

TAYLOR MILL, Ky. -- Parents pulled their 8-year-old son off his baseball team when they found out it would be sponsored by Hooters, Cincinnati television station WLWT reported.

"I was just was very shocked," said the boy's mother, Karen Schwartz. "I thought it was a little odd and inappropriate for little children."

Added the boy's father, Richard Schwartz: "I told her without batting an eye, 'I'm going to pull him from the team.'"

The Schwartzes said several parents were upset that the Taylor Mill Boosters assigned Hooters to represent a group of 7-, 8- and 9-year-old boys.

"I don't think there's any little girls leagues being sponsored by Hooters," Emily Schwartz said.

The Schwartzes said the league organizer told them it's not easy to find sponsors, and the T-shirts were already ordered, WLWT reported.

"We've liked the league," Richard Schwartz said. "We love the coach. I'm trying to instill some integrity in my sons. I just couldn't live with myself if I told him, on one hand, 'Well, we don't go to Hooters because of this,' but we'll let them pay for our uniforms for our baseball team. I can't do that."

So, 8-year-old Collin, who had been practicing with the team and getting ready for the season, will have to be satisfied hitting pitches from his dad.

"He just wants to play baseball," Richard Schwartz said.

WLWT tried to contact the manager for Taylor Mill Boosters but was not able to reach him for comment.

A Hooters representative said the restaurant sponsors all leagues -- adults and kids -- in an attempt to support the community.

Just another testament to the failing morals of the world, huh? :eek:

Just another testament to the failing morals of the world, huh? :eek:

Of the League Organizer, anyway... blech!

The same parents probably take their kids to Hooters for the buffalo wings... :D


'Hooters' is a reference to owls, right?

I find it quite inappropriate also.... Hooters is a poor choice

I'd do the same thing those parents did if I were in their shoes. Like them, I don't take my children to eat there (have never eaten there ever) because of what it represents and I sure wouldn't my kids to participate on a sports team that is sponsored by them.

I've eaten there. Their biggest offense is that the wings are awful.

I hear ya Marcy !!! I also would not care if hooters was sponsering the team, it's not the girls are going to come out and visit !! Heck, little leagues need money, uniforms, etc ........I'm happy companies sponser so the parents aren't having to fork over around $200 per kid each season.

I actually took my son and his friends to hooters for his 15th b-day dinner, that's where he wanted to go ......other parents came along, no one was offended, nothing was showing ........he got his picture taken with 3 of them .......no big deal.

But the food is TERRIBLE ..........even he and his friends thought so and they didn't want to eat there again !!