National Youth Sports football families were blindsided this month when the director of tackle football, James Vieth, suddenly announced he was shutting down operations to focus on his health.
As families searched for answers on how the season would continue, Diron Tappin and his partners stepped in.
“The big thing is looking at the scope of what we’re talking about. When I say it’s the largest league, we’re talking about 90% of tackle football players in Arizona,” Tappin said. “We thought about the league. We want to make sure no team is left behind.”
Tappin owns the Scottsdale Outlaws, a youth football organization that has been around for several decades.
Like most youth organizations, the Outlaws has teams for multiple age groups. That means hope for over 100 kids left wondering whether they would be able to finish their season after the NYS football division shut down.
Their anguish began Oct. 13, when Vieth announced that schedules –typically released the Tuesday before games – would be delayed as he battled health problems. The next day, he stepped down.
“I will have someone else reach out to everyone to help move things forward,” Vieth wrote to families. “I will send a more detailed statement later today to elaborate more on things.”
That was the last NYS families heard from Vieth – who filed for personal and business bankruptcy as the tackle football division of NYS is a franchise.
NYS headquarters said in a statement Oct. 16 that it would attempt to still host a tackle football season.
Chris Dutkiewicz, an attorney with DM Bankruptcy Law Group, issued a statement from his personal Facebook account announcing he was representing Vieth in his bankruptcy case.
“While I don’t generally use Facebook (or in particular my personal Facebook account) to announce a bankruptcy or…
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