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American sports, despite all the weight training, performance gear and technological advances in the field of body maintenance, is going soft. The latest?
A Michigan football coach, against the wishes of his players and their parents, decided to cancel the rest of his team's season after four games because he said the team's condition was "dangerously unsafe" to continue.
''When you go to a game on Friday night and see a team physically dominated, those are the indisputable facts,'' said Kyle Tobin, head coach of Oscoda's varsity football team.
The team had been blown out in four losses and the coach said only two players who showed up over the summer were up to the team's weight-lifting performance standards, whatever those are. Who's fault is that?
My senior year of high school, we fielded 30 players in Class AAA ball in Georgia. We went 0-10. We lost by a combined score of 341-110. We didn't have a shot in any games. Most of the time, we were down multiple touchdowns after the first quarter. We were probably outmanned by 40 players, on average, before the game started. And that was grades 9-12. You know what our coach kept saying?
"Orange juice, aspirins, beans and taters. That's what it takes, boys. Now let's go."
Or how about this confidence-raising speech before the season opener against the No. 1 team in the state. "Let me tell you something, boys. You better be ready, 'cause this is real. You don't think it's real? Well, I'll tell you. When I coached up in the mountains - and I ain't never seen nothin' like it in my life. On the opening kickoff, them mountain boys put three people in the hospital. Just hurt 'em. Three people on the first play of the game. I ain't never seen nothin' like it. They'll break your legs, boys. They will break your f------ legs. Now let's go."
You've got fat kids all over the country who come to P.E. class, which has been nearly eliminated in most schools, eating chocolate ice cream cones covered in McDonald's french fries and sit on the sideline because of their ADD or some other mythical condition their mamas conjured up to keep them from experiencing any kind of adversity.
If there is recess anymore, they can't play dodgeball during it because, heaven forbid, it singles out the fat kids. Excuse me, "physically-challenged." You mean to tell me they're not singled out anyway by the other kids, the ones whose parents don't let them play video games five hours a day?
Want to know why soccer is growing so fast among American kids nowadays? Their mamas don't want them to play football or any other sport where a coach actually puts them through some rigorous manhood-testing experiences.
Watch the World Cup. What do you see? A bunch of the best athletes in the world whining like 5-year-old girls because they didn't get touched. What does that teach the generation of soccer-playing sissies coming up? Let's be sissies.
Don't be a sissy. Play football.