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Old October 2, 2002, 11:55 AM
John Palma
 
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Default Criticism...And A Lesson From Football

On another discussion board, there has been a few posts with regards to criticism, and a life lesson my 2 boys and I experienced a couple of years ago came to mind. I thought I might also share it with you folks.

2 years ago...it was football season, and we had the NFL Sunday ticket, so I was in heaven by having more football games available than any human being could ever watch at one time.

My 2 sons, ages 17 and 20 at the time, after a few games, began to criticize different players, and for some reason really homed in on the kickers that couldn't come through at the last minute to "win the game".

After a few weeks of this, one afternoon when a game had ended with another "idiot that should be traded" comment, I had had it.

I went out to the garage, got a football, and went back in the house and got my two football kicking experts off the couch, and said we had a little project for the afternoon.

We drove to the local high school football field, got out of the car and headed for the 25 yard line. I made a 100 dollar bet with them that they couldn't kick a field goal from there, much less from the forty yard line or beyond.

Now I was taking a chance. I had never tried to kick a field goal in my life, and neither had they. I didn't really know if it was hard or easy, but I was fed up with the criticism.

So the "game" began. They both tried to kick multiple times from all over the field. I would guess that they must have tried to kick about 25 or 30 times each...from different locations. They never made 1 field goal.

As we sat there laughing about it, I explained to them how difficult it must be in a real game.

Picture that the kicker is live in front of his teammates, with a crowd of 60,000 "armchair" kickers in the stands, on national TV, with wind and snow blowing in his face, and 250 pound freaks of humanity running at him to try and stop the ball from being kicked.

Well, it worked. We laughed and talked about the whole experience, and then I took the lesson into other life situations.

It is so easy to criticize, yet for most, the criticism is from "armchair field goal kickers".

I have now been able to enjoy the football games...and my boys now have a different perspective.

After it was all over, it dawned on me...I would have created a monster if they had kicked field goals with ease. Then I would have really never had a moments peace during a game. Fortunately...things worked out as I had hoped. We all learned a valuable lesson about life, and criticizing others.

Many times those that can't do much more than rain on the parade give advice, yet have never done much of anything outside of their own little world.

I hope I don't come across to anyone as wanting to rain on anybodies parade.

I am struggling to "get it all together" as many folks are in this information publishing arena, so when I seem critical, I just want you all to know that it's just an opinion.




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