Don’t get between former U.S. Rep. Chip Pickering and a sporting event. Over a year ago, there was an on-deck circle mistake (bat goes flying, clocks some guy in the head, Pickering keeps playing), and today a report comes out saying Pickering lost his shit at his son’s soccer game and got into a fracas with the opposing coach.
Police are investigating a fight between former Congressman Chip Pickering and a youth-league soccer coach who says he was wearing a neck brace when Pickering attacked him.
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Coach Chris Hester says he was preparing to leave the field when Pickering started yelling at him. Hester coaches the team that played Pickering’s son’s team. Hester says Pickering pulled him from his vehicle and spectators had to separate the two.
Just goes to show that being a high-strung suburban dad at a soccer game extends to former elected officials, too. Oh yeah, and he had an affair with a woman recently that led to his pending divorce. He and the “other woman” used the now-infamous C Street house. That is really much more a damning event. Acting pious in public means nothing when you’re cheating on your wife in private.
