THE Yankee Rhetorical Blue-collar Worker’s Perspective
By: Charles W. Boatright
Sportsmanship Applied to Our Daily Lives- How Sportsmanship in Our Society Could Form a more perfect Union for Equal Opportunity for All
Sportsmanship is essential for competition that is played out on a field of dreams. Sportsmanship is just as important key for a civil society to function. This is one reason sports are important to childhood development in school and later to be applied in life. Sports force people of different backgrounds to come together as teammates and even as opponents and match up their abilities in a competition. The best wins!
One thing about sports is that you can’t fake performance or results in what some call trash talking. Success in the long run is measured only in results. I have witnessed coaches who use all the right words, enthusiasm, and have the loudest voice, then fail spectacularly in their actual performance on the field. They have a team that is unprepared to perform. It was so bad one time that I witnessed a team score a 60- yard pass on the first possession of the game.
The teams that are successful are the ones that prepare the hardest, condition themselves, and have the true grit to deliver results when tested. The teams that are short on talent and on proven results are the ones that compromise the integrity of the game in order to win and gain the system. These inferior teams promote unfounded allegations to distract for their lack of performance on the field.
In sports, opportunity should be the main objective provided not results. Results are earned! Sports have always led the effort of giving players the equal opportunity to compete, but not results. How many of you who are fans of a particular college football team would like to watch your football team compete on the gridiron in a great game, to only end where there was no winner is declared?
I’m old enough to remember the game of the Century in 1969 between the Texas Longhorns and Arkansas Razorbacks. There was a questionable defensive interference call that gave Texas the opportunity to make a touchdown. This game was so huge that even President Richard Nixon was there to present the National Championship Trophy.
But the interference call wasn’t what lost the game for Arkansas, but it was allowing Texas to move the football down the field to set up a two-point conversion. Just because Arkansas didn’t stop Texas in the last quarter, should the game end up in a tie or without a winner being declared; absolutely not. Texas outmaneuvered and played Arkansas that day.
But yet there are some people who would be for redistribution of efforts, or taking points from the winner and giving the points to the other team for equality purposes. This redistribution of efforts doesn’t sponsor excellence for athletes to aspire to achieve their best. Matter of fact, it would do the complete opposite.
Would you put in the hard work and effort of sweat and blood with bruises in practices to only have your win negated? Or would you put in the study time to earn an ‘A’ on a calculus test to have the ‘A’ scratched out and a ‘C’ presented to you in order for a another student that didn’t put in the time or effort to earn a ‘C’?
That is exactly what socialists would like to bring to the table. The only means to achieve this redistribution is with force. You don’t want your government to have that power. The institution or, in this case, government has to use force to take what you worked hard to gain to only be awarded to someone else. I admit, Failure is hard medicine to take, but it is necessary medicine to take to achieve excellence. We are after excellence, success and results will follow.
How Successful People use Failure
Successful people use failure and success as developmental tools. Successful people use failure to develop experience; and success to develop confidence. You need both experience and confidence to achieve your dreams and ideas. One of the greatest misconceptions in our society today is confusing knowledge with experience.
There is one key factor about failure, it teaches wise people what not to do next time.
Attributes of Sportsmanship in our Daily Lives
Here are some of the attributes of Sportsmanship, and why it is important to teach Sportsmanship in all parts of our society- respect for others and property, humility, integrity, commitment, perseverance, honor, honesty, fairness, sacrifice, responsibility, preparation, discipline, trustworthiness, and a hard work ethic, to name a few. An athlete can use true grit to witness to others about the power of Sportsmanship.
Sportsmanship combines all the essential principles that religious organizations and schools need to teach. You would have a society that actually respects each other and their contribution that they have and will make in our country. So let’s follow the principles of Sportsmanship, and have a society that offers equal opportunity to all, without resentment or envy that only leads to a destructive behavior.
If your opponent is beating you on the field, don’t be envious of them, but instead learn from them. One of the greatest examples of this was the Texas Longhorns under Coach Darrell Royal who was running the Wishbone Offense and was very effective at running it. They were leaving defenses in the dust on the field. Coach Bear Bryant, Head Football Coach of Alabama, in his humble manner went and learned the Wishbone Offense from Coach Darrell Royal.
The only problem with the Wishbone formation was that it lift the quarterback exposed to being hit and possibly injured. Like Coach Vince Lombardi stated, The only problem with football is hinges on one position, the quarterback is too important of a position to be compromised. This was the reason the NFL teams never ran the Wishbone offense, the team can’t afford to lose their quarterback.
This illustrates that sports can teach us a lot about how we should live and work together to make for a better society. Even if it is your opponent, you can still learn from them. We need to learn from others and not resent them. When you hate and are resentful, you only destroy your own path to success.
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