I remember in middle school there was a team that absolutely smoked us in basketball. It was awful. I'll bet we lost something like 60-10 they were just that much better than us and we knew it. We used the first game as motivation to get better so that if by the end of the season we played them again it would be much better.
We ended up playing that team two more times in tournaments that year and each time the games were more competitive. The last game we were actually winning at half but ended up losing by 6. That squad ended up going something like 41-0 and no other team ever led them at half or finished within 10 points of them.
So while I have a sports story from my youth of a moral victory (to me), these kids get to grow up and reflect upon how they were bullied by a team that was better than them.
Sports used to be about bettering yourself through competition, knowing that there is always something to learn from every win and every loss. What happened?
Really depends on how the players were acting. If they were taunting the lesser team while running the score up then I have a problem with it. If they were just playing good football and doing it in a professional manner and happen to put up 91 points then that's fine.
It would be nice to know about the team and why the hell they are so dominant in their division...I mean scoring an average of 70+ points is crazy...how does a team roll with that in what sounds like a smaller division?
Really depends on how the players were acting. If they were taunting the lesser team while running the score up then I have a problem with it. If they were just playing good football and doing it in a professional manner and happen to put up 91 points then that's fine.
The team needs to be upped into better competition. /thread
Also, you don't know how the father feels about it or what he told his kid. Maybe the kid totally understands and wasn't upset about the loss. Maybe the father wasn't either, but he still wanted to go through the formal process. You don't have to like it, but it's there for a purpose.
"We all witnessed bullying first hand, it is not a pretty sight," he wrote.
A lot of you are swimming in the deep end on this. It's really not that ridiculous to file the complaint with the hopes of uncovering any potential wrongdoing. We have systems in place to prevent incorrect actions. If nothing wrong has been done, then nothing will happen. There's no problem with that.
Also, you don't know how the father feels about it or what he told his kid. Maybe the kid totally understands and wasn't upset about the loss. Maybe the father wasn't either, but he still wanted to go through the formal process. You don't have to like it, but it's there for a purpose.
I remember in middle school there was a team that absolutely smoked us in basketball. It was awful. I'll bet we lost something like 60-10 they were just that much better than us and we knew it. We used the first game as motivation to get better so that if by the end of the season we played them again it would be much better.
We ended up playing that team two more times in tournaments that year and each time the games were more competitive. The last game we were actually winning at half but ended up losing by 6. That squad ended up going something like 41-0 and no other team ever led them at half or finished within 10 points of them.
So while I have a sports story from my youth of a moral victory (to me), these kids get to grow up and reflect upon how they were bullied by a team that was better than them.
Sports used to be about bettering yourself through competition, knowing that there is always something to learn from every win and every loss. What happened?
then the father is a fucking wise and beautiful woman and should stop going to his kids games.
Thanks for the quote from the article I read as well. Also, good job completely misunderstanding my post unless you somehow extracted far, far more information out of a single sentence. Please tell me how you know he's wrong? You also still don't know his feelings on the issue. You know he thought he saw bullying, but that's it. No where does it mention that he's teaching his kid to take the easy way out or that he's a raving lunatic who cries foul at every opportunity to do so.
When I played city league basketball a few years ago we had a team that should have been in the top division but purposefully played in a lower division so they could steamroll everyone for an easy road to a trophy.
We played them as hard as we could but at halftime we were down something like 38-16. Then the assholes started showboating like having their center shoot 3s, going for crazy alley-oops, and so on. So we started fouling them hard and knocking them on their asses. I've never heard grown men whine and cry so much to the officials. We stood up for ourselves, didn't let them showboat on us anymore, and held our heads high after the game despite losing by 20+. It felt great.
lolwut
you might be extracting too much meaning from a single sentence
Won't anybody notify the Handicapper General?... every American is fully equal, meaning that no one is smarter, better-looking, stronger, or faster than anyone else. The Handicapper General and a team of agents ensure that the laws of equality are enforced. The government forces citizens to wear "handicaps" (a mask if they are too handsome or beautiful, earphones with deafening radio signals to make intelligent people unable to concentrate and form thoughts, and heavy weights to slow down those who are too strong or fast).
Do you know for sure that the winning team isn't doing anything wrong? If you do, then I stand corrected. If not, calm the fuck down and try to apply some logic. There's absolutely nothing wrong with asking a question, which is essentially what the complaint really is - a formal question. If they did nothing wrong, then nothing will happen. I'm not advocating for the pussification of America, but you guys seem to forget when it comes to kids and schools that people are assholes at all ages. I have no problem with asking the question, but I do have a problem if a reprimand is issued when the team did nothing wrong. That would be pussification, but we aren't there yet. Get your fucking panties out of a twist.
You can't do that, you need to play the full minutes for it to count.
Texas high school football. Really not unusual. You have some football powerhouses out here. Not certain how they accumulate all the talent. I'm sure it involves questionable transfers and probably giving the kids a football as soon as they can walk to "follow in Jimmy's football glory days" steps.