Classless Coach Belichick

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Originally Posted by GhettoDogAllStars

I think you care more about winning than enjoying the game. Originally, the game was created to have fun. It's tough to have fun when your opponent scores 8 times as many points as you. That has changed, and now the focus is not enjoyment, but rather winning at all costs. Maybe it's okay. Maybe it's not.

If you were playing basketball with a bunch of ten year olds, would you just dominate them? I know it's not the same thing, but that is pretty much what you said in your post -- play every game to win, and win as big as you can. I guess you left out the word "professional", when referring to sports.

Also, letting up is not an issue of "feeling sorry" for the other team. It's an issue of respecting the idea that the game is meant to be enjoyable. I guess that doesn't make sense in professional sports. Sigh.

Its a professional sport and everyone is evenly matched. These games are not for fun, its about $ and winning. Nothing more, nothing less. NE was not playing a Pop Warner team (no matter how much it looked like they were).

If I was playing basketball against 10 year olds I would not let them win because if I let them win then they did not really win and when they finally did win they would know how great it feels to struggle and finally achieve a goal. Unfortunately trophies for all only helps the loser kids (and their parents) feel less bad about themselves and robbs them of the joy of working toward a goal and accomplishing it.