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Old 02-10-2011, 03:56 PM   #23
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I played for a lot of losing teams, I also coached losing teams in football and hockey. And losing is just if not more of a learning experience then winning. When you win, you learn about winning with sportsmanship, you also gain a desire to keep winning because it feels good.

When you lose its a measuring stick for the next game or the next season, you can fix your mistakes.

I can see for the really young kids when you're teaching fundamentals that the score isn't as important as progress. But man when you hit the later years and you don't get the winning, losing lessons, you come to expect that things don't matter as much.

I don't know who came up with the idea of scoreless games, but its moronic.

Maybe everyone can get the same color medal at the Olympics. Or the winning and losing teams hoist the Stanley Cup or Grey Cup or Superbowl together because its all about the sharing.

Maybe we can also replace body checking with flyby high fives and hypervelocity a$$ smacks.

Maybe we can teach kids that its ok to pass the ball or the puck to the other team because its their puck or ball too.

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