Responsibility on the Field

I wrote a post similar to this weeks ago about his man..

And, with that post, I explained that this is a genuine man who has a genuine love for the game.  His son was one of the coaches and he had 2 grandson’s on the team.  But, never did I see him show preference for his own g-kids nor did the other coach…

show any signs that he had a preference for his own son or his nephew.  I even told the story of how when my own son was able to handled a triple play unassisted, I looked and this coach was bear-hugging my son and spinning him around like we had won the world series or something.

I played collegiate sports and even before anyone knew if my first child was a boy or a girl, people were asking me “where will he/she play ball” and “how old will he/she have to be to start where you live”.  People (and probably including myself, although I’d prefer not to admit it) had high hopes for my kids in the area of team sports.

But, once the time come for my son to actually play, I immediately was drawn to this family.  Even though they were not my son’s coaches last year, I knew from watching that my kids needed this man’s help as a coach.  So, when registration time come around this year, I went in search of this family.

I liked their values, they wanted to win and like me, they believe winning is way more fun than losing, however their approach was such that most of the time, the kids rarely ever asked the score.  We played in a couple of tournaments and they knew then that winning or losing would make the decision on when and if we played again.   But, even still, it was never about purely winning, it was about doing the best you can, about playing your best and being happy with that.

I can honestly say that in my opinion, Responsible Sports, is what we accomplished this year. Next year, Mini Me will be able to continue to play with these same kids and families, Ditto Boy will be too old and will have to move up.  So, I am not sure what we will do to when it comes to putting him on a certain team, but you can guarantee, I’ll use these folks as references for good coaches.  Because really, that’s just how they roll.

I am including this quick video that I made of the kids and then I”m going to explain the premise behind this extra post.

Ok, so here’s the deal, I am entering this post in a contest and I need comments comments comments on this post, so please, read and comment often.  And, if you can tweet the following

“@The_Jerri_Ann has entered #responsible sports, go comment on her post & help her win http://bit.ly/4oMIOR”

and you then can help me win….puhleeeze and thank you.