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October 16th 2008 13:10
Shuts outs, not allowing the opposing team any points, is one mark of a good defense. When you score 91 points it's a win seldom equaled. That's what happened last weekend in a high school football game in Florida. The Wildcats of Estero High beat the Naples Golden Eagles 91-0. If that's not bad enough, when you consider each quarter is abbreviated at the high school level, scoring 91 points is even more incredible.
Things were out of hand before the half when Estero led 70-0.
Although this victory will go down in the books as a great win for Estero, it was hardly THE game of the week. In Ohio a team was beaten 96-0!
These victories are great for the winning side but you have to wonder what it's like to be on the losing side. Would you like to suffer the humiliation of being beaten by a score like that? It's one thing to experience a 20-0 manhandling but the lessons of humility are lost when the other team scores so many points.
Some, myself included, subscribe to the theory that every bad play stays with you a lifetime. I know I'm still haunted by a fumble that squirted away from me in an opponent's end zone despite the fact that it was over 30 years ago and I had yet to reach my teens! Some people would blow that off and say, "You were just a kid." I'm here to tell you that everyone on that field takes the game seriously no matter what level it is. I'm speaking as someone who has both played and coached. For the record, the kids I coached were as young as 10 and they took a defeat as hard as older kids!
Interscholastic sports are supposed to teach the kids. When you're defeated like this, what do you learn?
You can read about the Estero-Naples fiasco here.
Things were out of hand before the half when Estero led 70-0.
Although this victory will go down in the books as a great win for Estero, it was hardly THE game of the week. In Ohio a team was beaten 96-0!
These victories are great for the winning side but you have to wonder what it's like to be on the losing side. Would you like to suffer the humiliation of being beaten by a score like that? It's one thing to experience a 20-0 manhandling but the lessons of humility are lost when the other team scores so many points.
Some, myself included, subscribe to the theory that every bad play stays with you a lifetime. I know I'm still haunted by a fumble that squirted away from me in an opponent's end zone despite the fact that it was over 30 years ago and I had yet to reach my teens! Some people would blow that off and say, "You were just a kid." I'm here to tell you that everyone on that field takes the game seriously no matter what level it is. I'm speaking as someone who has both played and coached. For the record, the kids I coached were as young as 10 and they took a defeat as hard as older kids!
Interscholastic sports are supposed to teach the kids. When you're defeated like this, what do you learn?
You can read about the Estero-Naples fiasco here.
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