Jackson Co. vs Trousdale Co.

[SpecialTeamer]

Always enjoy reading your post JacksonCounty...glad to see you are still around.

[Macon7AAA]

there is a large part of me that has more respect for kids that play for teams that post dismal records each year than i have for ones that play just because they can be on a winning program. but aside from that, fans that complain about an outcome that most would have predicted can dry it up. it's attitudes like that that are the reason that the game of 'tag' is outlawed on playgrounds across this country. my advice to those fans (not the players, whom i have an unending respect for) is to take your lumps like everyone else does in life and try to give a few lumps back, it'll make you feel better.

 

I was 8-33 in my four years in high school! You must have MAD respect for me!

 

Well said, snoball.

[jacksoncounty]

I believe you have winners and losers, no doubt. In sports, in life, in the afterlife. I do not like or support games in which no score is kept. We need to learn to lose but we also need to learn to win. I guess that is what I was addressing. I am not crying, not ashamed, not wimping, I am simply stating my opinion that many today need to learn how to act. I wonder how many can define CLASS and tell what it means to them to have and show it. I think many of us older ones would be surprised and somewhat embarassed. We are the teachers of the younger ones. I hope I can lose with class and pride and that I can win with a humble heart.

I respect the tradition of Trousdale County and this post really has nothing to do with the game last Friday night. It was played, it's over and we move on, I said that in the first sentence. I just would like to have sensible dialogue with others who remember their words are in an open forum and being read by 13 year old boys who are forming their own views about what is acceptable behavior and how they will be when they are the adults.

I think it would be wise to read the following quote by a former U.S. President:

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.â€- President Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States from 1901-1909, (1858-1919)

Edited September 9, 2011 by jacksoncounty