Sports: False Celebrations
When teams win playoffs games, it drives me nuts how they celebrate. I just don't understand the mentality here. As a fan, I never understood either. Winning a playoffs game is very nice and surely desired. However winning the championship was what it is all about. Am I wrong here?
I see these teams winning division series, then dousing each other with champagne. They mob each other as if they've won it all. They ham it up for the camera, they cry, they carry their children on their shoulders. I just don't understand. I find it somewhat offensive being a sports fan.
If I was the manager or owner of a team, I would be pretty darn upset at such behavior. Until you win it all, you need to go to work. That's what you are paid to do. I side with the fans in celebrating the prospect of another victory, but not at celebrating a division championship or playoff game. I'm not knocking them for their exuberance...heck I've been there all to often over the years. Still though, I knew that winning it all was all that matters. Why don't the players feel this way?
"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing" Vince Lombardi
Former President Richard Nixon gets his share of the locker room celebration after the California Angels defeated the Kansas City Royals to win the Western Division title of the American League as Angels second baseman Bobby Grich pours beer
I see these teams winning division series, then dousing each other with champagne. They mob each other as if they've won it all. They ham it up for the camera, they cry, they carry their children on their shoulders. I just don't understand. I find it somewhat offensive being a sports fan.
If I was the manager or owner of a team, I would be pretty darn upset at such behavior. Until you win it all, you need to go to work. That's what you are paid to do. I side with the fans in celebrating the prospect of another victory, but not at celebrating a division championship or playoff game. I'm not knocking them for their exuberance...heck I've been there all to often over the years. Still though, I knew that winning it all was all that matters. Why don't the players feel this way?
"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing" Vince Lombardi
Former President Richard Nixon gets his share of the locker room celebration after the California Angels defeated the Kansas City Royals to win the Western Division title of the American League as Angels second baseman Bobby Grich pours beer
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