Reproducing one of my blog posts.....coz I felt strongly about it...and wanted to share it!
Read this piece of news this morning -
https://highschool.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=903780
Thegist of the story is that there was held a high school girls basketball game between two schools; The Covenant School and the DallasAcademy. The end result was that the Covenant school defeated theDallas academy by 100 - 0.
And then came the drama, the winningteam was criticized for wining with such a huge margin and being notshowing any humility in the game. Its a sensitivity issue u see, besensitive towards your fellow looser, feel sorry for winning. Here ishow it was put in the article :
The private Christian school defeated Dallas Academy last week. Covenant was up 59-0 at halftime.
Aparent who attended the game told The Associated Press that Covenantcontinued to make 3-pointers -- even in the fourth quarter. She praisedthe Covenant players but said spectators and an assistant coach werecheering wildly as their team edged closer to 100 points.
"Ithink the bad judgment was in the full-court press and the 3-pointshots," said Renee Peloza, whose daughter plays for Dallas Academy. "Atsome point, they should have backed off."
Nowofficials from The Covenant School say they are trying to do the rightthing by seeking a forfeit and apologizing for the margin of victory.Covenant coach Micah Grimes did not immediately respond to a messageleft by The Associated Press on Thursday.
Queal said schoolofficials met with Dallas Academy officials to apologize and praised"each member of the Dallas Academy Varsity Girls Basketball team fortheir strength, composure and fortitude in a game in which they clearlyemerged the winner."
My immediate thought when I readthis article was that the world has gone completely wrong. Are weasking the winning team to apologize coz they won?? And the losersshould be one ones to forgive coz they are so high and mighty...traitsapparently bestowed by the devastating loss???
It is acompetition, one team wins one team looses. Rather than telling thewinning team to forfeit the match and apologize, how about taking totask the loosing team and its coach and see where they failed.
Iam sick of these people trying to make everything better for a looserrather than congratulating the winner. As children when we lostanything, we learnt from our losses, and that is what made thevictories even sweeter.
This sensitivity issues and the waythey are dealt with is getting to the point of being insane! or am Ibeing too critical? Should winners not be applauded and losers made tostrive to be winners? or should losers be applauded and winners chidedfor wining?
