ORMOND BEACH, Fla.(WSVN)– A father is fighting to return to his son’s football games after he was banned.

Johnathan Coston says he was defending his son’s patriotism when things got heated between him and his son’s coach.

Eight-year-old, Ryan Coston knows what it means to honor his country so when the national anthem plays, he removes football helmet, but Saturday, the Ormond Beach youth football player was told to put it back on by his coach.

“Walked up to me and said, anything wrong with your helmet, you want me to fix anything, I said no, and then he said put your helmet back on,” said Ryan.

Ryan’s father went to confront the coach about it, and that’s when he says it turned into a heated argument with the coach and the commissioner of the youth league.

He claimed the coach began u

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