After reading the article in the newspaper I sat down and thought about.
It is notworthy to also show another statement that was in the article:
In a statement Thursday on The Covenant School's Web site, the head of school said, "It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened." He went on to say that Covenant has made "a formal request to forfeit the game recognizing that a victory without honor is a great loss."
"...A VICTORY WITHOUT HONOR..."
At least someone at that school had the moral fortitude to acknowledge that what they did was wrong, just plain wrong.
Years ago when I faced some of the hardest times in my life, I went to my grandmother who was 87 years old to help me with her wisdom. She told me that the mark of a real man was not muscle and sheer physical strength that could whip any man. It was the man that got knocked down, but yet had the courage to get back up knowing that they would certainly be knocked down again. That would be the real man the one that may be defeated but still struggled to win.
So my hat is off to the team that really won that contest the one with the kids that had the grit and backbone to continue knowing they had no chance. They are real champions of the spirit and the heart. Those kids showed that they had learned more about life than the coaches of the other team.
They are ones that will keep this country strong they will defend her in times of peril. They will not be a pack of "VICTIMS" looking for someone to blame for their failures. Nor will they grow into adults that will be looking handouts, they will be the ones that get up off the ground dust themselves off roll up their sleeves and do whatever they have to. They will be "REAL WOMEN" among "MEN". They will all be the kind of women a real man needs in this world and will make a great mothers to children of the next generation. Of course that may never marry but that is the type of stock that real Americans come from.
In today's world we have lost site of the fact that the Sports field or arenas or not battlefields. We read in the newspapers and see it on the sports talk shows they liken it to gladiators, war, and so on. It has gone from eloquent descriptions of sporting contest to being the way the games are played. The object now is to destroy, annihilate, crush., and on and on.
That's is what you do on the battlefield not the sportsfield.
Once the sportsfield was used to teach lessons in life, competition without hatred, teamwork, and so on. To show a child that even though he was not a blond haired, hansom, muscular quarterback, say he was a big fat tackle, his part in the effort was just as important and in some cases maybe more.
Now fathers jump onto the field to whip a ref or even players if he thinks his child was slighted or whatever. Sometimes to get after his own if he was not performing to his standards. (He is the type that was probably a miserable failure as a man and is trying to relive his life through his children)
Well anyway the real heroes are the girls that had the courage to take the court with the team they knew they could not beat and yet continued to struggle knowing the outcome at the start. One word sums them up:
CLASS