I always used to think that being raised Catholic was a terrible way to begin matters but now I can safely say that at least I wasn’t raised as a Catholic in America. This rule of not winning if your opponents are terrible at your chosen sport sounds very, very odd to me. Heck, even Irish Catholic infant and junior schools were all about sniping at your fellow schools and attempting to trump them. You picked at fellow church congregations after all: your choir master was better, your youth group could actually sing, your priest was actually from the south etc.
In many ways this sense of fairness is better but it’s still quite alien to me. Being Catholic is all about looking down your nose at everyone else you consider lesser or so I was taught. That said if the facts stand that this other team had no chance in hell of even being slightly good at what they were doing then the entire setup sounds absolutely appalling from the start and also quite odd, and potentially pointless. Is this sort of affair usual then? To make teams who very evidently can’t compete actually go head to head with actual athletes? Because if it is then it sounds like it’s the system that’s inherently flawed.
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Date: 2009-01-25 08:42 pm (UTC)In many ways this sense of fairness is better but it’s still quite alien to me. Being Catholic is all about looking down your nose at everyone else you consider lesser or so I was taught. That said if the facts stand that this other team had no chance in hell of even being slightly good at what they were doing then the entire setup sounds absolutely appalling from the start and also quite odd, and potentially pointless. Is this sort of affair usual then? To make teams who very evidently can’t compete actually go head to head with actual athletes? Because if it is then it sounds like it’s the system that’s inherently flawed.