> At Penn Bowl a few years ago, I got a tossup in > the last few seconds to tie a game. I slammed > my hand down so hard that the table shook and > my hand hurt. ... > Just because a team's chosen activity did not > require that they run fast or throw a ball > accurately does not mean that their success is > any less valid or should deserve any less > excitement or recognition from the student body > for their accomplishments. Read my post again. You're looking for something that's not there and you think you found something, but it's not there. I said that I scrapped with a guy in a Division II Club hockey game in the state of California. We're talking about the absolute bottom rung of inter-collegiate sports here - and yet I was intense enough about the game to want to kick the other guy's ass. But did I try to start a fight with him after the game as we were on the way to our cars? Hell, no. That's what I'm talking about. A little in your face during a game against an evenly-matched opponent - while not classy - is understandable. But after the game, let it go. Losing sucks, but it's not like your fiancee threw all your stuff out of the house. You wouldn't diss people to their faces because they made less money than you or had a lower GPA (if you do, that makes you an asshole.) So why would you publicly cut someone up because you beat them at buzzer bowl????? > A sport not being > recognized by a school is not necessarily > competed at a lower level of intensity than one > that is. Agreed. But have some perspective. See what people think of you when you get on them for losing the three-legged relays at the company picnic.
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