Posted on 09/05/2013 5:39:19 PM PDT by massmike
With the growing concern over the effects of competition in youth sports programs this summer, many Canadian soccer associations eliminated the concept of keeping score. The Soccer Association of Midlake, Ontario, however, has taken this idea one step further, and have completely removed the ball from all youth soccer games and practices.
According to Association spokesperson, Helen Dabney-Coyle, "By removing the ball, it's absolutely impossible to say 'this team won' and 'this team lost' or 'this child is better at soccer than that child.'"
"We want our children to grow up learning that sport is not about competition, rather it's about using your imagination. If you imagine you're good at soccer, then, you are."
(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...
If that’s a joke, it’s very funny.
Very funny joke
It’s like taking the beef out of hamburgers.
But wait, we can replace it with tofu.
Good satire
This was printed in the Examiner under satire.
Imagine there’s no ball
It’s easy if you try..
We are all winners
Don’t have to ask why.
I was hoping this was a parody or that today was April 1st.
Epic fail doesn’t go far enough in describing this.
Not keeping score is horrible enough but take away that ball? Just what the hell will the kids actually be doing? They do a lot of meth up north, eh?
No, wait it’s gotta be fake.
It’s hard to tell these days.
“If you imagine you’re good at soccer, then, you are.”
KID: You mean I can imagine I’m really good in anything, even the NFL? I’m better than Tom Brady? Keeewllllllll...
Instead of having “What did Jesse Jackson say?” competitions, now we can have “Is it real news or satire?” competitions.
Ping.
If this isn’t a parody it is proof that liberalism is a mental disorder!
Just like “you know who” took the balls out of Foreign Policy?
I’m going to bed early, happy and comforted by the knowledge that just by thinking about it I can pull a 100mph major league fastball into the left field stands, wait on the curve and go opposite field, have more moves and agility at shortstop than Ozzy Smith at his prime, and can throw anyone out at first from deep short and the edge of the outfield grass with my cannon arm. When I wake up tomorrow I’m hoping that there’s a multi-year multi-million dollar major league contract on the nightstand.
I was punked for about a minute.
Looks like most of Canada fell for it. Well done. And sadly, it’s not all that unbelievable.
Yep. Got me. ;)
Maybe it is satire, but I have actually had a ‘mother’ tell me that she doesn’t let her kids play sports because ‘they are already winners in my mind, and by not ever losing, they can stay winners in their minds, too.” Not kidding. A GenWhyMe 27 year old.
They don’t need a ball.They don’t even have to go thru the motions of a game. Each team gathers at opposite ends of the field, and imagines how they would play and score. When time runs out, they then cheer at what they imagine their outcome was.
Oh -—— wait. Better cancel that last part, as one team might out cheer the other team. Better gather together and sing Kum-ba-ya———— but all at the same noise level. And then go home after a friendly, lovely, kindly, fair, game of soccer. And ——— no dirty uniforms!!!!!
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