“How do I explain to an eight-year-old that your coach has been suspended because your teammate unintentionally scored?” Brooke Burdett, Burrell’s mother, questioned. “It is hard having an eight-year-old in flight to think of everything everybody has said, other than, ‘I need to make a touchdown.’”
This is beyond ridiculous. America has advanced to the greatest nation the world has seen in large part because of our ideal to work as hard and as smart as you can, to try to do your very best, and one day perhaps you will be rewarded for it.
Yea, those who work their hardest don’t always ‘make it’, but that’s just the way it is. The entire society strives to achieve and we build great things as a result. One can always feel good if they try their best.
With this type of enforced sympathy, one of our greatest ideals has been greatly limited. Once you place ‘someone’s feelings’ far above an ideal so basic to the fabric of our society – we all die a little.
It’s quite a different thing for someone to stop themselves from achieving what they can in order to give care or empathy to another, and we all applaud that when it happens. But to limit by rule or law basic ideals because someone might get their feelings hurt kills our culture and lowers our might as a nation.
1st… if the team was up by that much. Even an Interception should have been blown Dead by the refs. Anytime you are in a Mercy rule situation, The winning te
am can NOT advance the ball… No TD…
Like an 8 year old knows to fall down n not score because of score even if coach tells him all he is thinking about is doing his job good job 8 yr old just don’t put score on board n run the clock
When I was a coach I would rotate players to give others a chance to score who normally would not have a chance. I’m never going to tell my team to not try and score. They don’t put in many hours of practice to be told you have to slack up and not try and score. How can I tell them to practice and play at there very best if I have to tell them we can’t score anymore?