Too many touchdowns?

[Royd]

This discussion could open a can of worms, with a thousand different scenarios.

One has got to wonder about the mindset, which has spawned such rules, in the first place. It's not like this is the Chinese Olympic gymnastic team. The kid is not 3 years older than the rest on the field. Hopefully, it's a league controlled by age.

Part of the problem is trying to make every kid feel special, when, in reality they are ordinary or mundane, at best. This applies to any field of pursuit.
The concept of valedictorian and saluditorian are being done away with, because God forbid, someone should excel scholastically, and go to the front of the line. I would bet that these same people who think this stuff up, are trying to do away with alphabetical order, because it's just not fair that one kid always gets his name called first, in rollcall.

Instead of saying to the kids on the other team, that's the kid we need to try to shut down, they are told not to try too hard, because the other team is only allowed to lead by 2 touchdowns.....How does that menatality develop a winning attitude in young, malleable minds? It doesn't. It spawns an attitude of mediocrity.

I see it everyday in every way. It shows up in every institution and corporation, in the form of quotas.....Go into a Walmart and see how many workers are sharp and quick and on their game.....Usually, a bunch of slackers and slobs. Some, even operating from an electric scooter.

Where would we be, today, if that attitude had existed with Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell or Henry Ford?

 

[chickened]

I tend to agree Royd, I am not sure the word "bully" is one that comes to mind when you have a very talented child though as said in another post. I coached a few times myself and we had a plan to deal with superstars and we may have still lost but we would shut that kid down and the excitement you would see on a kids face told you it was worth it when they seen for themselves what they were capable of as a team and individual.

My sons' team was undefeated until the last game and I tell you they learned alot in the last week of practice as their mind was fresh for learning from the sting of losing. I am headed to the game in about 15 minutes and will see how losing payed off.