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Ricky Bobby would be proud
"If you ain't first, you're last!"TM
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Coach had players burn third place trophies
http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/fairfie...ies?hpt=us_bn4
The New Canaan Black football team finished its season in early November after losing in the semi-finals. A couple weeks later the players and coaches gathered at a teammate's home to celebrate the end of the season. However, the celebration took a different turn after parents presented the team with third place trophies and the coaches had the players go to a park and set the trophies on fire.
Lord loves a workin' man; don't trust whitey; see a doctor and get rid of it.
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Did they get to keep their participation ribbons?
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I don't see what the problem is. I think the coaches were sending an excellent message about sportsmanship and respect to those 8th graders. Especially since it was the parents who had gone out and spent money out of their pockets to have the trophies made. Celebrating their hard work during the season, respecting the parents' gift...I think this was a win-win.
"Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and reverence." 1 Peter 3:15-16 (NRSV)
 Originally Posted by RedPhoenix
I am now a Christian as this is definitive proof A) There is a god and B) miracles do happen!
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Originally Posted by LutheranHusker
I don't see what the problem is. I think the coaches were sending an excellent message about sportsmanship and respect to those 8th graders. Especially since it was the parents who had gone out and spent money out of their pockets to have the trophies made. Celebrating their hard work during the season, respecting the parents' gift...I think this was a win-win.
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Was there a consolation game after the semi-finals?
Maybe they burned them because they should have gotten 4th place instead.
Lord loves a workin' man; don't trust whitey; see a doctor and get rid of it.
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Originally Posted by Red Dead Redemption
Was there a consolation game after the semi-finals?
Maybe they burned them because they should have gotten 4th place instead.
Does this mean the Olympics should stop giving the Bronze... or recipients of the Bronze should throw them in the river.
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Originally Posted by KleinTxHusker
Does this mean the Olympics should stop giving the Bronze... or recipients of the Bronze should throw them in the river.
Nope. The losers themselves should be thrown in the river. And they should be given lead medallions instead of bronze to epitomize the weight of their shame they carry on their shoulders. 
Lord loves a workin' man; don't trust whitey; see a doctor and get rid of it.
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It is all part of the wimpification process that we see in this country.
"Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns." John Leonard
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Originally Posted by ThotDoc
It is all part of the wimpification process that we see in this country.
Your a therapist/counselor right? Your reponse made me laugh. Maybe we should just chug on over to mamby pamby land...
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - Robert A. Heinlein
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Originally Posted by Combat Yeoman
Your a therapist/counselor right? Your reponse made me laugh. Maybe we should just chug on over to mamby pamby land...
That guy is my hero.
"Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns." John Leonard
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Originally Posted by ThotDoc
It is all part of the wimpification process that we see in this country.
Is that like the posters on the football board that are happy with 9 wins a year.
"Bipartisan usually means that a larger-than-usual deception is being carried out."-George Carlin
"It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled".-Mark Twain
  
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Originally Posted by ColoREDo
Is that like the posters on the football board that are happy with 9 wins a year.
Maybe, but to me it depends on what the losses look like. Two blowout losses and losing to an inferior team at home don't cut it.
"Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns." John Leonard
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Apparently the losers weren't aware that there was a county wide burn ban in effect.
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Originally Posted by Sonuvahusker
Apparently the losers weren't aware that there was a county wide burn ban in effect.
Have you considered the air quality implications... trophies are now mostly made out of plastic and they probably gave off dioxins and some heavy metals when they were burned...
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This is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard of in the wide world of sports. These kids were 8th graders for pete's sake and the parents/community dug into to their own pockets to reward them for a great season. I note the coaches got fired for this stunt as well they should have. This Ricky Bobby mentality has no place in junior high or high school sports IMO.
I cried because I had no shoes until I saw a man that had no feet.
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Originally Posted by Warhorse
This is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard of in the wide world of sports. These kids were 8th graders for pete's sake and the parents/community dug into to their own pockets to reward them for a great season. I note the coaches got fired for this stunt as well they should have. This Ricky Bobby mentality has no place in junior high or high school sports IMO.
EVERYONES a winner! Pass/Pass on classes! No one looses!
And kids graduating today wonder why they are so out of touch with the real world. 
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. - Barry Switzer
Originally Posted by The Big Red Lebowski
That a way CC! Stick with your boy to the bitter end.
Originally Posted by RedPhoenix
Why yes, I do have a PHD in Hillbilly.
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Originally Posted by CornfieldCounty
EVERYONES a winner! Pass/Pass on classes! No one looses!
And kids graduating today wonder why they are so out of touch with the real world.
Did you get the part where these were 8th grade football players?? Do you really believe that the "Ricky Bobby View" should be applied to junior high and high school sports?? It was once my priviledge and honor to coach amazing group of overachiever high school football players who fell in OT to the eventual state champs in our class. Our team ended up third in the state that season. At our annual football banquet a few weeks later, the parents and community presented the team with a very nice generic trophy recognizing their outstanding effort and high place in the final standings. That trophy still occupies a favored spot in the school's trophy case and I know for a fact it also occupies a fond spot in the hearts of players and coaches who made that dream season a reality.
I cried because I had no shoes until I saw a man that had no feet.
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Pavlovian Manipulator
Originally Posted by Warhorse
Did you get the part where these were 8th grade football players?? Do you really believe that the "Ricky Bobby View" should be applied to junior high and high school sports?? It was once my priviledge and honor to coach amazing group of overachiever high school football players who fell in OT to the eventual state champs in our class. Our team ended up third in the state that season. At our annual football banquet a few weeks later, the parents and community presented the team with a very nice generic trophy recognizing their outstanding effort and high place in the final standings. That trophy still occupies a favored spot in the school's trophy case and I know for a fact it also occupies a fond spot in the hearts of players and coaches who made that dream season a reality.
My trophy has a first name... it's T H I R D
My trophy has a second name... it's P L A C E
Warhorse likes this, ob-vi-ous-ly!
If you have to ask, then cri-men-y....
Because he always likes to see...
Rewards for me-di-oc-riii-ty.
"Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan
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Originally Posted by Big Red Rick
My trophy has a first name... it's T H I R D
My trophy has a second name... it's P L A C E
Warhorse likes this, ob-vi-ous-ly!
If you have to ask, then cri-men-y....
Because he always likes to see...
Rewards for me-di-oc-riii-ty.
Great now I will have that song stuck in my head all day...I blame you BRR...you...
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny." - Thomas Jefferson
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