Posted on 05/13/2005 11:16:27 AM PDT by fso301
Oh, if only that big, bag hockey team would've "taken back" some of the goals they scored on me in the state tournament . . . my team might have made it out of the first round, and then I'd know what it feels like to be a winner! Sniff, sniff.
Sounds like a plot line to a King of the Hill episode.
If only Chris Webber didn't call time out....
If only Scott Norwood would have kicked it through the uprights.....
If only, if only, if only.........
If only Donovan McNabb didn't have a tummy ache . . . maybe Belichick should give the Iggles a do-over?
Who knows, someday down the road, maybe one of these girls will be an Olympian trailing the leader and the leader falls but remembering what happened to her in high school, she will on live worldwide television do the same.
Maybe it won't be public but for these girls advancing "underservedly", sometime down the road, this event will remain with them and they will hopefully do the same to someone.
Their parents, who ran thier kids around the lat 15 years trying to help their kids do well in sports. < /I gotta run my girls to softball lacrosse swimming and dance this weekend!>
Sure, it's a feel good story, but for goodness sake, they LOST!
"Good winners don't step aside so that the loser can win."
Well said. This to me is the crux of the matter. Losing is the toughest thing in sports but its also the strongest motivator and the best teacher. A winner who denies a loser his loss is selfish. Your point seems to be a profundity lost on some.
I agree. I wouldn't want to win thanks to the pity of others. That's not a win.
Suppose one of the other teams...one that everyone thought had no chance of winning were leading the race and dropped the baton. Do you think this gesture of good will would have been extended to them?
Sorry, this is WRONG WRONG WRONG AND WRONG
My daughter's High School track team has been state champions for three years in a row. The 4 x 400 relay team ran their best ever time in the state final last year and still lost to a faster team. It happens. Move on. Competition makes everyone better in the long run. You win or you lose. Geesh!
Sounds to me like the Norwin girls were tired of having track practice everyday after school and were anxious to start having fun in the nice weather. The girls from Norwin I played basketball against in 1988 wouldn't have done this...of course they were (beep). ;) Just kidding
No, which is why for this really to be a complete example of sportsmanship, the team that lost should have refused the other teams offer of forfeiture.
That still shouldn't take away from what the forfeiting girls did.
Why thank you. The hockey teams I played for gave me a lot of experience in losing!
I think that decision is best left to the winners. There have been instances when a tennis player or golfer will overrule a call or admit an unseen error in the name of sportsmanship. Lutz Long helped his opponent Jesse Owens in the 1936 Olympics. Michael Phelps gave up his earned spot on the relay team to give a teammate a shot. There are plenty of historical examples of sportsmanship. Winning is not everything, nor the only thing.
I completely agree. The team failed, regardless of how good they were. The Jets were the best team in football, before meeting the Colts in Superbowl III. Namath guaranteed the win by a the underdog and came through 16-7, and I don't recall seeing Baltimore step down from the World Champions dais, because they thought NY was the better team.
To quote one of my new favorite movies, The Incredibles: "They keep finding new ways to celebrate mediocrity. It's insane!" -Bob Parr (Mr. Incredible) and Helen Parr (Elastigirl) :"Everybody's special, Dash." Dash Parr: "Which is another way of saying no one is."
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