Dec
01
2011
Stupid, Graceless Culture
Bob Costas nails it here, and as the opening reference to Kim Kardashian suggests, his comments apply to much more than the adolescent self-adulation of athletes. For me, washed-up has-been wanna-be athlete and former coach that I am, the key question was: “Where are the coaches in all of this?” When I played (donkey’s years ago in the amateur leagues of small town high school athletics), almost anything resembling “flash” got you benched in, well, a flash. Cost a team some points or a penalty and you’d be riding the pine for a long while. Not only would you be benched during the game, but the next day’s practice would feature a major in-your-face post-coffee grilling and a lot of extra running (appropriately dubbed “suicides”). I guess those days went the way of dinosaurs when contracts and egos grew bigger than team and character. Enough rambling of my own. Enjoy two minutes of brilliant Costas commentary:
HT: Z