Leaving is not a bad option, either. Pretend that your kidney stone has moved. While there's nothing more you'd like to do than watch the rest of the game, your HMO has approved shock-wave therapy and UCLA awaits. Some take the deconstructionist approach. They create a time line and identify a series of events, all connected, which led to the goal.
Deconstruction is a way of spreading the blame, thus distributing the misery.
In this case, the defender's parent tried to ignore the game and continue what had been, up to that point, a friendly conversation with another parent, a parent who was now his lifeline to the rest of the team. That was, of course, hopeless because said parent is now a carrier of the failure virus. A virus nobody wants to catch. Score on somebody else. Now you have company.