The kids grandmother gave the kid the cleats to wear, so he did in honor of her and other survivors. The coach just sounds like a *****, he was ****ed about the whole pink thing from the beginning when he was *****ing about it at halftime of that game. Sounds like a masculinity problem he has, the kid had wore plenty of other cleats and nothing was said so there obviously wasn't some policy. He just decided to be some douche against a kid doing nothing wrong and supporting an important cause. How anyone could defend this guy or what he did is beyond me.