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Anonymous
Posted November 19, 2003
A great book for parents and coaches
A fine book to help correct what¿s gone wrong with youth sports, professional sports and maybe our society in general: Catering to elitists at the expense of the general population. Too many parents and coaches go into youth sports with a narrow vision of the game; they look out at the field and only see their child or their team and every other kid as an obstacle to their success. Hate to break it to you Ma¿am but the chance of your kid getting into the Pros, let alone playing in college is slimmer than your chance of becoming the Pope. Let every kid play, learn the game and have fun. The cream will rise by its self and everyone will get more out of the game then bench splinters and busted egos (plenty of time for that when you grow up). Fair Play puts the kids first. Every kid, not just the ones with talent and ability, but those with potential and those with enthusiasm as well. Lancaster¿s Seven Principles of Fair Play gives more kids the opportunity to get more out of team sports than watching the coach¿s kid play quarterback or be the starting pitcher. Following the principles will be too hard of a pill for some coaches and parents who are compensating for their own inadequacies to swallow. But for a youth sports organization dedicated to the children and the community, there is no better guide. Pro sports organizations are trying to clean up their image because too many players have been pushed by overbearing coaches and parents since childhood to focus on becoming the strongest, the biggest, the fastest, and at any cost. Dedicate your life (your child¿s life?) to the game and you¿ll learn steroids, performance enhancing drugs and cheating will get you to the top faster than Fair Play. Fair Play will teach children that it is just a game and it is fun.
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Anonymous
Posted November 2, 2003
Great Information!
This book give great info on how to really monitor goodness in sports, positive aspects are taught and encouraged!
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Anonymous
Posted July 24, 2003
FURTHER EVIDENCE OF THE DECAY OF AMERICA
This is an absolutely frightening book, written by one who represents an organization (the NFL) that is hardly a paragon of virtue itself. Yes, there are problems with youth athletics, but this book is NOT the the solution to those problems. Rather, this book represents the current way of thinking in our nation - worry about 'feelings' before excellence, political correctness, radical feminism, communist-like condemnation of competition, etc. All these ideas will create is a generation of touchy-feely weaklings. The purpose of youth athletics is to train kids for life, not to dilute their abilities for the sake of political correctness.
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Anonymous
Posted July 25, 2003
NFL as a good example to youth?!? Yeah, right!
This is an awful book. What the author is proposing is that the ages-old pursuit of bettering one's self, of pursuing excellence, of striving for one's full potential, should be cast aside. Why? Because someone might get their feelings hurt. Mr. Lancaster wants to blend boys (and girls) into one homgenous, vanilla, bland mix where everyone is the same, and everyone is mediocre. Sauron himself could not have devised a better plan for the eventual enslavement of mankind. It is natural that some kids are better athletes than others, and it is true that some youth coaches are real jerks. But neither is reason enough to end competition, that fire that tempers the soul and creates excellence out of mediocrity. Mr. Lancaster's own league, the NFL is itself a most wretched viper's nest of scum and villainy. He should worry more about fixing his own house, rather that trying to bring the shroud of darkness down upon youth athletics. Is it any suprise, by the way that he loves soccer? Soccer itself is the poster child for sameness and egalitarianism and mediocrity. Let us take this book and cast it into the fires of Mount Doom, from whence it was spawned, and destroy it utterly.
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