Blog: The Smoking Section

Early on in youth sports after we learn the purpose of shaking hands in the team line & sportsmanship, we pick up the next lesson of never pinning a loss on the back of one team member. There will always be heroes and oftentimes obvious goats. But we're taught never to single out one play or player as the cause for a loss. Forget the fact that had the Colts won, Peyton Manning * would have been celebrated, his every word and action further venerated. We're not supposed to talk about that. Don't [...]