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Good, now maybe the brats will concentrate on academics instead of hanging out on street corners.
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StudioFiftyFour
The only thing more boring than hearing someone drone on and on about their kids, is when they discuss their high school sports accomplishments. "Back in '77 we had a great team and I was so great. The best decision I ever made was to focus on throwing the pigskin instead of wasting my time learning calculus... "
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I have to chime in again on this. Sports has always been put on a pedestal. When I was in school , If you were on the soccer , Football or Basketball team , You could get away with anything short of murder. Also many of them had the intelligence of a spoon full of gravel, yet they passed their classes with flying colors. The coaches weren't that damn intelligent either. Defenders of school sports will quickly tell you that sports teaches leadership and builds character. Really? Like lets take Football, Do they mean character like domestic violence? Dog Fighting?Drug and alcohol abuse? Shooting weapons in nightclubs? Driving drunk.How about leadership? Like child molestation by coaches? ie: Sandusky! Or covering up college assaults on women by administrators? The list goes on and on.
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highwayman
I have to chime in again on this. Sports has always been put on a pedestal. When I was in school , If you were on the soccer , Football or Basketball team , You could get away with anything short of murder. Also many of them had the intelligence of a spoon full of gravel, yet they passed their classes with flying colors. The coaches weren't that damn intelligent either. Defenders of school sports will quickly tell you that sports teaches leadership and builds character. Really? Like lets take Football, Do they mean character like domestic violence? Dog Fighting?Drug and alcohol abuse? Shooting weapons in nightclubs? Driving drunk.How about leadership? Like child molestation by coaches? ie: Sandusky! Or covering up college assaults on women by administrators? The list goes on and on.
I've read that the NBA and the NFL have higher percentage of convicted felons in their ranks than does the general population. I think it has to do with what you say, they are put on a pedestal from the moment their sports talent is discovered and throughout school and even in college, they do whatever they want and nothing happens to them. Even when they area caught, people actually make excuses for and defend them because of they have athlete status while if an ordinary private citizen did the same things, there would be call to hang them.
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JohnDrake, a heckuva article in the Atlantic. Thanks for the link.
I remembered one small thing on the positive side from HS when it came to the treatment of my cherished chess team. The afternoon announcements often included results from the previous day's chess match against another school. I was in my Physics class when they were made and the teacher (who was a good man and in my corner on these things) made sure everyone was quiet when the announcements were being made; he would then make sure to congratulate me for winning my game (I was the top player in the school that year) and helping our school to win the match. He would not allow any snickering or any other negative reactions to the announcements. Bless you, Mr. Sweetland.
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StudioFiftyFour
The only thing more boring than hearing someone drone on and on about their kids, is when they discuss their high school sports accomplishments. "Back in '77 we had a great team and I was so great. The best decision I ever made was to focus on throwing the pigskin instead of wasting my time learning calculus... "
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Cambion
I don't know why people are so obsessed with high school sports. It's not like it's a paid career. If the home team wins, what do you get? A shiny cup and a flag with a letter on it. Whoop-de-fuckin-doo. I think way too many DickWerkz Duhddies think their little manly man will grow up to be a manly ball player that shows their manliness by picking on the "lesser" boys in the locker room and showing their dominance via sexual abuse. Hmm, sounds like prison, which is probably where a lot of those football jocks will wind up.
At the end of the day, any school sport is just a GAME. It's okay to be competitive and to give it your all, but even if you win the football game, you're still a guy in tight, padded pants and a belly shirt, manhandling other similarly-dressed guys while playing catch with a dead pig.
I recall being asked by my gym teacher to consider joining the volleyball team because I was actually pretty good at serving and getting points, even against the girls who were actually ON the team. I refused. No fuckin' way was I going to have the preppy girls glaring at me and getting in my face because they decided that the fatass was the reason they lost the game. That, and I refused to wear shorts.
It's sad that sports are valued so much higher than the arts or even education itself. Who cares if Junior can't do math, use proper grammar or doesn't know anything about history? As long as he can kick a ball! And if a teacher does their job and gives these lazy jockholes the grades they deserve, the coaches and parents will bitch at the teacher for keeping the moron kid off the team with that pesky F.
I bet most of the sports breeders think their kid is good enough for the big leagues, but a microscopic percentage of people who play will go on to have sports careers. And of course the kids are spoiled by their "status" well into adulthood and when the NFL thing doesn't work out, they think their field goals will impress employers.
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The story I've heard more than once is some hot shot high school player gets into a good college program and he doesn't play much the first year then gets cut from the program and ends up quitting school and getting a dead end job, or they make it to the pros, are in a few years, get traded between teams, then get dropped and no other team will take them.
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At the end of the day, any school sport is just a GAME. It's okay to be competitive and to give it your all, but even if you win the football game, you're still a guy in tight, padded pants and a belly shirt, manhandling other similarly-dressed guys while playing catch with a dead pig.
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