I couldn’t agree more - football (sandlot, high school, junior college), and the Army basic training added to the mix. Then the Lord blessed me with a sweet little wife and a house full of daughters.
When I coached I would always start the parents’ meeting with, “It doesn’t matter if we win or lose as long as we have fun. It’s just winning is a lot more fun than losing.”
Those Starbuck housewives heads would explode.