Soccer Player Dies Celebrating Goal
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Title says it all.
The guy scores a goal and proceeds to launch into a series of somersaults which ends tragically for him (the video is in the story/link).
http://www.cbssports.com/general/eye-on-sports/24760561/indian-soccer-player-dies-following-tragic-goal-celebration
Let alone the potential for injury (celebrations result in more injuries than you can imagine)... can't a team or its players win with grace? I have had several teams that have won championships at various levels. I have coached every one of them to respect their opponent at the end of the game and save the celebration for the locker room- versus the floor where a losing team was dealing with the emotions attached to a loss (essentially rubbing the loss in their faces).
When has 'celebrating' typical moments in games become such a common event? Is humility an underappreciated quality in an athlete?
I remember a coach told his team when they scored a touchdown... act like they've done it before. Nowadays... it seems as if- using baseball as an example- a base on balls warrants a team wide ritual of fist bumps, high fives and choreographed dance maneuvers.
Maybe I'm old school?
The guy scores a goal and proceeds to launch into a series of somersaults which ends tragically for him (the video is in the story/link).
http://www.cbssports.com/general/eye-on-sports/24760561/indian-soccer-player-dies-following-tragic-goal-celebration
Let alone the potential for injury (celebrations result in more injuries than you can imagine)... can't a team or its players win with grace? I have had several teams that have won championships at various levels. I have coached every one of them to respect their opponent at the end of the game and save the celebration for the locker room- versus the floor where a losing team was dealing with the emotions attached to a loss (essentially rubbing the loss in their faces).
When has 'celebrating' typical moments in games become such a common event? Is humility an underappreciated quality in an athlete?
I remember a coach told his team when they scored a touchdown... act like they've done it before. Nowadays... it seems as if- using baseball as an example- a base on balls warrants a team wide ritual of fist bumps, high fives and choreographed dance maneuvers.
Maybe I'm old school?
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I guess this type of celebrating isn't limited to country or locale? Save for the occasional football game, I'm not a big watcher of sports (especially all the way to the end!) so haven't realized that this happens more and more.
Winning with grace is even more important than losing with it.
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
I know the Miami Hurricanes football team introduced an element of obnoxious behaviour back when 'swagger' was frowned upon. When did sporting bodies, leagues, teams, fans, and players accept such celebrations as par for the course?
The RB that scores the TD from 1 yard out runs to the back of the end zone and does his theatrics and dance moves- while his linemen are picking themselves up off the ground after creating the hole for him to plunge through. How about running back to the line and helping your guys up off the ground instead of playing to the cameras as if you did it all by yourself?
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I mean... Aaron Hernandez... seriously? Adam Jones?
Do the horrible attitudes develop in the professional, collegiate, or amateur ranks?
My feel is that coaches at lower levels essentially suck up to star athletes- allowing them to behave any way they want- in pursuit of championships. Once the athlete gets pimped out to the college that pays the most 'under the table'... the college coaches become something of slaves to the athletes' behaviours as well.
In the wake of all the recent domestic abuse cases in the NFL... not all teams will draw a hard line in the sand: look at the 49ers and Ray McDonald. They keep him in the line up hiding behind the old allow due process to occur end run around doing the right thing.
It's all part in parcel: players acting poorly at various levels with teams and fan bases accepting the behaviours.
Terrible for the dead player's family and his teammates though. :(
But there is a big difference in any case. Fighting in the NHL actually serves a purpose. Intimidate the opponent. Shake them up. Bring out their emotions and hopefully make them commit mistakes.
Tearing off your shirt and doing back flips like an idiot serves no purpose at all as far as playing or winning the game goes.
Fighting in hockey is tradition. It's long been questioned whether Wayne Gretzky would have had the career he did if guys like Semenko weren't there to kick the shit out of anyone who messed with the guy.
Tearing your shirt off and running to a spot on the field where nobody else is to beat your chest begs reform: it's disrespectful of your opponents, your teammates, and the game itself.
(Such a stupid concept btw (just in general). Get rid of fighting in professional hockey... meanwhile, ultimate fighting grows and grows and boxing is losing popularity because it's not violent enough, lol).
Bunch of overgrown babies being treated like kings for playing games to entertain the dull masses. Yuck. Give me art.
Or at least a combat sport like MMA that makes sense. I want to scream at football fans " get off your ass and DO something!"
Then Dana white "reinvented" the UFC. I won't argue that it's popularity rose quickly because its more violent than boxing. But I think it had more to do with its "purity." It was real and the fighters were not being paid to take a fall. Plus, the scorers weren't on the take as well. Ten years ago, when a fight went all 3 (or 5) rounds in the UFC, you could be 95% positive that the scorers got it correct.
But the ugly smell of money has penetrated the UFC. I've stopped watching it because it's become abundantly clear that the fights are fixed. Plus, Dana has watered it down to the point where these fights are meaningless anymore. Idk if they are still have a PPV event every month or not. But IMO, that was to much. The UFC will fall just as hard as boxing did if they don't clean up their act.
Royce Gracie used to choke everybody out then in a most efficient, but boring manner.
It has changed significantly for the worse and I have to agree with the last post that UFC has become somewhat 'impure'.
Gracie won 3 of the first 4. He would have won all 4 but he opted not to participate in the third event.