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jag86fan · 02-17-2015, 02:01 PM

Quote:I guess for the point I'm trying to make, let's look at it this way. Say we play New England in the AFC Championship game and they beat us in a close competitive game. Then, they go on and lose in the Super Bowl, and then over 4 months after the Super Bowl it is determined that they paid off the refs in the game against us and only won because they cheated and the NFL decides to void their win and declare us AFC champions. Would you be celebrating? Would you be bragging to everyone that we won the AFC championship? I sure hope not. It would be a paper championship. I mean it's not like we actually won on the field. It's not like we got to go on and play in the Super Bowl and try to win the big game. It's not like in our memories we look back and talk of how awesome of a win it is.

In the end, it is a bad situation for everyone.

Let's put the shoe on the other foot. The Jags win the AFC Championship in a close game and then lose the Super Bowl. The same scenario happens. Would you feel like the Jags actually deserve the AFC Championship? I wouldn't.

Of course, some of the lessons in Little League Baseball are supposed to include sportsmanship, fair play, and learning to be both a gracious winner and a gracious loser.

It seems many, many adults either never learned those lessons, or conveniently forgot them.

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