driftdiver tries to avoid any bad craziness:
Sportsmanship is not a liberal value.But ImJustAnotherOkie realizes that high school sports aren't about fun or anything:
The worst crime is to teach surrenderjmaroneps37 thinks this has to do with female coaches trying to act male:
Because there is little attention paid to girls basketball at any level this stuff happens all the time. Often the coach is a female who is “proving” she is just a ruthless as she THINKS male coaches are. Just read the weekend Youth Sports round ups in your local rag and you’ll see what I mean. Scores like this are very very rare; but 65 to 12 is not very rare. It destroys the fun part of sports for some kids.Vermont Lt thinks boys won't stand for being trounced:
This never would have happened in a boys game.I'm not sure what sportutegrl is saying here, but it ain't good:
There would have been fights on the court at about the 30 point mark.
I get the feeling that the losing team was made up of actual girls.democratsaremyenemy knows the real crime is losing:
Sounds to me like the wrong coach got suspended.Flick Lives smells postmodernism:
Of course in this nonobjective age, where it is all about grievance and feelings being hurt, a capricious non-objective response is to be expected.PoloSec wants to shame the losers:
Of course if there were objective rules, then the grievance mob would have their power stripped; and their real power is the power to be arbitrary. “Sentence first... verdict afterwards!”
I’m with the coach on this, the other team did not even try, sounds like the two points they did get were by accident, the losing team deserved to be shamed not coddled, it seems this empathy crap is seeping into every aspect of our culture.pabianice thinks we're living in Sparta, where everything is military.
I know that will offend the “that’s not Sportmanship” bleeding hearts on this thread, they are as disgustingly and shamelessly weak as the members of this losing so called team.
An American general in command of the Third Army has been suspended and faces accusations of mercilessly running up the score after his team mercilessly beat Germany’s 6th Panzer Division in a score of 161-2, one of the most lopsided scores in wartime history. General Patton was suspended for two games after the victory last week against German Field Marshall Von Heitzman. Patton has said that he wasn’t trying to run up the score or embarrass the opposition.
I played football and basketball in school, and there were a few times when, amazingly, we would play a team that was even worse than ours. There would come a point where we would let up and stop running up the score. There wasn't any fun in grinding an outclassed opponent's face into the mud. Freepers like to proclaim their Christianity, but too many of them really do seem to embrace the spirit of Sparta, or of Ayn Rand, which is just as bad.
ReplyDeleteTo the victors go the spoils.
To the losers go total humiliation.
Winner take all.
"embrace the spirit of Sparta..."
DeleteWhich is funny, because the Spartans were totally gay.
I have been reading Free Republic off and on for 10 years. This is a rarity.
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That thread got not traction at all. Surprise, surprise.
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My father, were he alive today, would be almost 90. This sort of game, with a very uneven score, happened once when he coached basketball in the late 1940s. His team was winning.
ReplyDeleteThe teams both quit playing at some point and shook hands when it became clear that the other team couldn't possibly catch up.
This was more than sixty years ago, and there was no shame in it then, as there is no shame in it now. My father used it as an example of 'sportsmanship' and why it was at least as important as winning. I didn't get it as a kid. I get it now. Winning isn't good unless it is honorable. That's why wrestlers have weight classes, baseball has minor leagues, and hunting doesn't allow baiting fields.
Another example of Freepers making up history to match their biases.