At 08:59 AM 5/28/99 -0500, Joseph M LaCour wrote:
>On Thu, 27 May 1999 19:20:28 EDT Vicki Price <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>><snip>
>>
>>I concur with the concept of respect and honor. However, right now the
>>game is taught to include cheap play and winning at all costs. This is
>just
>>as true at the youth level. Good behavioral examples in regard to "fair
>>play" and sportsmanship should come from the coaches and parents. Sadly
>this
>>isn't the case very often; too often it's the parents who fight in the
>>stands over a call or a hit. That's not role-modeling.
>>
>====
>YES!!!!
>
>The hardest thing a parent has to do during a game is to shut up when
>your kid has just been run over by an oppponent, especially when it is
>"unfairly" done.  Too often we scream at the ref, the opponent and then
>at junior to get up and get even.  Oops!  Fair play and sportsmanship
>went out the window.
>
>I always told my kids to get even on the one place that counts - the
>scoreboard.  In some cases that meant that the don't run it up rule was
>relaxed.
>
>Joe
>
>PS  When you take a comment out of context (which you did), you can have
>anyone mean anything to fit any point.  You have no idea how I
>retaliated.  Usually it was waiting for the person to have his head down
>and then deliver a legal hit.
>
>PPS  Incidence of injury - WHAT TYPES OF INJURY???  Charley horse or
>broken bones, or lacerations?  Geez, Vicki, every time you do one of
>these things, you're digging a bigger hole.  Of couse a full face shield
>would eliminate facial lacerations.  It's like saying that an umbrella
>will keep you head dryer in a rainstorm than a hat.
 
 
Based on your "an umbrella will keep you head dryer in a rainstorm than a
hat" arguement and realizing an umbrella would also keep your suit dry,
logically you must be fighting for a full face shield.
 
Bob Svec
 
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