“Scorng a point”, in sports ... may have either a positive or a negative value depending on the circumstances.”
It’s OK to let up on the other team if your team is winning easily, but it is not required. Playing by the rules is required. To hell with politically-correct liberalism that is poisoning our formerly great nation!
On October 7th 1916, Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland College at football 222-0. Earlier that year Cumberland had beaten Georgia Tech at baseball 22-0, and Tech was in a mood for revenge at their better sport.
Was the Georgia Tech coach, a cultured Ivy League law school graduate, denounced and then fired for his psychological brutality? No, actually instead he was made a member of the College Football Hall of Fame, and the most famous football award was named after him. The coach’s name was John Heisman.
It’s OK to let up on the other team if your team is winning easily, but it is not required. Playing by the rules is required. To hell with politically-correct liberalism that is poisoning our formerly great nation!
Having a healthy and strong 25 year old man give up his bus seat to a 75 year old lady is not "required". Sportsmanship is not "required".
Both are values that were once considered traditional American values. You either believe in values or you don't. Values are not "required".
Is Good Sportsmanship a Thing of the Past?
On October 7th 1916, Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland College at football 222-0. Earlier that year Cumberland had beaten Georgia Tech at baseball 22-0, and Tech was in a mood for revenge at their better sport.
So both teams showed an utter lack of class by beating up the weakling to a pulp. How does that bring "honor" to either one of them?
When I was in third grade, back when JFK was still in the White House, a bigger neighborhood kid got the better of me in a fight. In frustration, on my way back home, I punched his five year old little brother in the stomach. Our Dads, who had been friends since childhood, laid down the law.
What I did, my father told me, was cowardly. I still remember that lesson.
In traditional American values, deliberately beating up on the weak has always marked you as cowardly.
Even in prison "codes of honor", a murderer that kills another man that was considered his equal enjoys the highest respect while rapists and child molestors that preyed on the weak must be kept segregated from the rest of the prison population so that the other prisoners won't kill them.
The basketball team that Coach Grimes intentionally humiliated with a full court press 100 - 0 score HAD NOT WON A SINGLE GAME IN FOUR YEARS.
Coach Grimes showed the same level of immaturity that I had when, as a third grader, I punched a much weaker 5 year old in the stomach so I could feel better about myself.
Was the Georgia Tech coach, a cultured Ivy League law school graduate, denounced and then fired for his psychological brutality? No, actually instead he was made a member of the College Football Hall of Fame, and the most famous football award was named after him. The coach’s name was John Heisman.
So, John Heisman once had an "I once punched a five year old in the stomach" episode.
That does not enhance his reputation.
And, once again, Coach Grimes was not fired for "psychological brutality".
He was fired for his subsequent insubordination.