As a kid when my team sucked and we got a trophy I always wondered why. My parents didn't teach me to be ultra competitive but I always have been. I never displayed those trophies. Just the winning ones I got. I was embarrassed by the participation trophy. I looked at it as a losers trophy. Every one got one so what made it special? It wasn't earned, or at least not in my eyes. So, just from my experiences I don't mind just the winning teams getting trophies. But as I am typing this, I'm thinking back that I just wanted to play and play to the best of my abilities and win. I probably couldn't have cared less if we won and didn't give us a trophy either. It was just for the love of the game I guess.


Maybe adults are overthinking it and making it a bigger deal than it is.

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