Tag: rewarding failure

Did Owner Pay Coach to Lose Games?

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To bribe a public official, how much money does it really take?

As a child, were you ever told, or did you ever read, that “sports build character”?

Surely they jest.

The former head coach of pro football’s Miami Dolphins, currently suing the league for racial discrimination, has also said that the owner of the Dolphins, a big real estate muck-a-muck, offered him $100,000 for every game he lost (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-02/dolphins-owner-dangled-100-000-per-tanked-game-ex-coach-says).

Why would the boss want his team to lose? Ah! The NFL rewards failure. The team with the worst record gets first choice of the up-and-coming college players.

The coach says he was fired for not purposely losing games.

What if the charge is not true? Well, then you’ve got this career athlete smearing his employer and telling a tale that could undermine the credibility of the whole sport. That’s not good character. But if it is true–hey, how dumb do you feel now, for having bet on games that weren’t on the level?

As for the racial discrimination (“They won’t hire me because I’m black!”) suit–this guy at the time was the only black head coach in a league of 32 teams in which most of the players (57.5%) are black.

If I owned a team, I don’t think I’d want to hire a guy who says his last owner tried to pay him to lose games.

The Blessings of Failure

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Columnist Bethany Mandel thinks “Rewarding Failure Has Become an American Epidemic,” and has the real-life examples to prove it (http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/06/04/new-york-post-columnist-rewarding-failure-has-become-american-epidemic).

For instance: After a girl failed to make the cheerleading team at Hanover Park High School, NJ, her parents complained and the school decided to allow everyone to make the team: just show up, and you’re in. The New York City Fire Dept. gave an $81,000-a-year desk job to a woman who failed the physical exams at the fire-fighting academy. And the New York State Board of Regents has thrown out the literacy requirement for teachers: you don’t have to be able to read and write anymore, to teach in New York’s public schools.

Gee, is this fair to the people who worked hard to meet those requirements? [Eight-minute laugh break ensues.] You wouldn’t ask that if you truly understood liberalism and Social Justice! In fact, you should be beaten up for asking it! Hater! Biggit! Ableist! [Head turns 360 degrees, body levitates off bed.]

Question: What about the poor sad sacks who fail at being failures? What of those who pursue failure, but cannot catch it? Who seek failure, but never find it?

More thought must be devoted to this!