Yes, we lost. Oh WELL. Get over it, it's just a game! Gads, the poor football players have no encouragement whatsoever. Even from their own school! I've caught myself harping about them multiple times, and each time, I end up with a sever sto friggin mach ache afterward. Namely for the sole reason that harping on others when they don't measure up to "standards" is not for me.
I want it to be known: I am not, never have been and never will be a football player at Summit High School or anywhere else. However, I like to think in all honesty that our football players on both teams are trying their hardest and doing the best they can with what they've got. I don't know crap about football, or about what goes through the players' minds in the form of thoughts when they're in the middle of a game, but knowing that an entire school is hoping you'll loose, and that your own school couldn't care less if you did, is a lot of pressure.
A team of any sort is built on a number of things.
The first is camaraderie. If the team members aren't brothers or sisters in arms, working together, the team is not and cannot be successful.
The second thing that makes a team is communication. If the whole team is listened to, taken into account, considered for the independent brain that they may (or may not) have, then the team has a shot. If not... well...
A third aspect essential in a team is drive. Motivation. The heart of all desires and goals and aspirations. What the team wants can be a combination of separate goals, or simply the same goal, but the product has to be a strong, common passion that incinerates everyone on the team.
The fourth element of a team is inside confidence and support. A general overall belief from themselves, in themselves. They have to truly believe without a hint of doubt, beyond the reaches of the corruption of second guessing, that they will be successful in their endeavors.
The fifth thing all teams need is the ability to humbly admit defeat, then to hold council and revise their plan. To run through every footstep, every breath, every agonizing millisecond of waiting as the ball flies through the air, every mathematical logarithm that might be used to perfect the arc of its course... All of it needs to be examined with a fine-toothed comb. And then, they need to be flexible enough to change tactics.
Most importantly, something else that all teams, whether political, religious, just for fun, to support a cause, or to represent a school, absolutely must have is people on the outside who believe in them. The people they represent especially.
No team can last very long without the support of others. If a school loses faith in its team, its team loses faith in itself. Therefore, it loses the motivation to win, the belief that it will win, the goal of winning... and therefore it loses the need to revise its tactics because really, if you're not going to win, why bother wasting time revising your tactics? and it loses the game, therefore enforcing the the school's lack of faith in them and beginning the vicious cycle all over again.
My point here is not to make anyone feel bad, or adversely to offend anyone and make them get defensive, or to insult the members of the team if this is in fact all wrong and I'm a stupid idiot. I just want to get people to think about it. Don't put yourself in their shoes, because that never works and it's a stupid analogy used by first grade teachers. It's pointless to try and preach, so I won't bother. I don't want to anyways. I just hope that if your still wasting time reading this instead of doing your homework, that you think about what you've read. Don't overdo it. Don't make hate groups of fan clubs. Just THINK about it...
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