COEUR d’ALENE — Coeur d'Alene Jr. Tackle President Bob Fitzgerald has seen viral videos of unruly youth sports parents and coaches exchanging blows.

He doesn’t ever want to see a localized version.

Last week, Fitzgerald’s league took a preventative measure to avoid such scenarios: The league canceled this season's remaining games with teams from Post Falls, citing what he described as Post Falls' sideline misconduct of its parents and coaches.

"We canceled the games with Post Falls to try and get this stopped,” Fitzgerald said. "We don't want a YouTube video of a melee at Person Field or in Post Falls. This is little boys football, and we are not interested in the bad behavior."

The cancellations affect Post Falls and Coeur d'Alene teams in the fifth-, sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade divisions. Each town has multiple teams in each division. Fitzgerald said Post Falls has the option to fill the now-open dates to play other Post Falls teams or other area teams, such as Lakeland or Timberlake.

Fitzgerald, who didn't specify the behavior of the Post Falls parents and coaches other than "unsportsmanlike," said getting referees is hard for the Post Falls games because they didn't want to deal with the trouble.

"I had a meeting last night with the Post Falls president (Spencer Sessions)," Fitzgerald said. "He understands and he agrees with us."

Attempts to reach Sessions for comment were unsuccessful, but Post Falls' former president, Jason Hildreth, weighed in on the matter.

"Unfortunately, I think it's a politics thing," said Hildreth, who now coaches youth football in Post Falls. "Someone in Coeur d'Alene has an idea of how things are done, and doesn't like that they're done differently somewhere else."

Hildreth, who was the league president up until a year ago, doesn't like how the adult behavior is affecting the kids who just want to play.

"A lot of these decisions aren't about the kids," Hildreth said. "Unfortunately, we have a lot of kids negatively affected."