In yet another nod to the protection of fledgling self-esteem, an Ottawa children’s soccer league has introduced a rule that says any team that wins a game by more than five points will lose by default.
The Gloucester Dragons Recreational Soccer league’s newly implemented edict is intended to dissuade a runaway game in favour of sportsmanship. The rule replaces its five-point mercy regulation, whereby any points scored beyond a five-point differential would not be registered.
Kevin Cappon said he first heard about the rule on May 20 — right after he had scored his team’s last allowable goal. His team then tossed the ball around for fear of losing the game.
He said if anything, the league’s new rule will coddle sore losers.
“They should be saying anything is possible. If we can get five goals really fast, well, so can the other team,” said Kevin, 17, who has played in the league for five years. “People grow in adversity, they don’t really get worse…. I think you’ll see more leadership skills being used if a losing team tries to recuperate than if they never got into that situation at all.”
Kevin’s father, Bruce Cappon, called the rule ludicrous.
“I couldn’t find anywhere in the world, even in a communist country, where that rule is enforced,” he said.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
"Win a soccer game by more than five points and you lose"
The pussification of the children of today continues in Canada.
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It's WORSE than ludicrous... it's sad, it's heartbreaking, and dammit, it's DESTRUCTIVE TO KIDS' SELF-ESTEEM -- which is what these putty-brained adult fools pretend they were trying to protect.
ReplyDeleteSo, say you're a kid who's maybe not that good at math, maybe you don't know a pronoun from a participle, but you can run and kick a ball. Now, instead of being proud of being good at SOMETHING, scoring well is just another thing to be ashamed of. Now a kid on a good team will have to hobble himself; will have to practice NOT being excellent instead of striving to do better each time he plays. This is stupid and destructive and absolutely contrary to what we need to teach our children.
The ultimate message of this adult interference in the way kids learn life's essential lessons about "what I'm naturally good at/ what I need to work on if I want to be successful" is:
IT'S WRONG TO DO WELL, IT'S WRONG TO HAVE NATURAL TALENT, IT'S WRONG TO FEEL GOOD ABOUT WHAT YOU DO WELL. All because "somebody's feelings might get hurt".
This leads to the final, worst lesson:
THOSE WITH "HURT FEELINGS" HAVE POWER OVER EVERYBODY ELSE. Haven't we had enough of "victim groups" shouting that somebody else is responsible for their lack of success? That their misery and poverty are caused by others, and therefore it's necessary for those "others" to fix their lives? How about Islam and its perpetually-offended whiners? They want to sacrifice goats in their back yards, they want to beat or kill their wives, they want EVERYBODY to "respect" their child-molesting, murder-loving prophet, and when the civilized West says "We don't do that sort of thing here" they tell us we've offended their "religious sensibilities" and threaten riots and beheadings because OUR INSENSITIVITY TO THEIR HURT FEELINGS inflames them.
Puhleeeze, stop this garbage NOW!!
A_Nonny_Mouse