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Old Fri Oct 24, 2008, 12:22pm
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The root of the problem is here-



American society is becoming such namby-pamby group of whiners- the Chinese will eventually take us over with out a whimper.

Does ping-pong have officials?
Some years ago I was working as an editor of a small-town weekly paper and I liked to take news items from years past and see how far the town had come. In one of these older issues there was a letter to the editor complaining that the youth of the day were whiners. They did not know the meaning of work, were afraid to commit themselves and were being coddled by over-protective parents who didn't want their kids to have to break a sweat over anything. the letter writer was afraid for the future, given the condition of the youth at the time.

The letter was written in 1938. I think the youth of the time acquitted themselves well over the next 7 years.
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Old Fri Oct 24, 2008, 12:44pm
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I'm working a game tonight where one of the teams dressed 16 earlier in the year and I've heard that they called last week's game at halftime when they only had 10 players left.
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Old Fri Oct 24, 2008, 12:58pm
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I'm working a game tonight where one of the teams dressed 16 earlier in the year and I've heard that they called last week's game at halftime when they only had 10 players left.
We had a game last year and one team only had 18 players. Rather than count 11 players on the field, our HL just turned around and made sure they had 7 on the bench. The QB left at halftime with an injury so his count went down to 6. God bless those teams for continuing to play! That is commitment.
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