Feb 21 2008
The Agony of Defeat
I was talking with somebody the other day about how excited the kids on my Upward Basketball team get when we start scoring. I called it “the thrill of victory.” Then in my head I immediately hear “and the agony of defeat.” I’m guessing I’m not the only person 30-or-older who would make that association. When I was a kid, I thought ABC’s Wide World of Sports was just about the coolest thing on TV (we didn’t have 1/100th the programming we have now). I don’t remember anything about what they showed on ABC’s Wide World of Sport intro for the “thrill of victory”, but as soon as I thought “the agony of defeat” I immediately pictured that poor idiot crashing at the end of the ski jump ramp. That image is forever burned into my mind as “the agony of defeat.”
Turns out that poor idiot was from the part of the world where I just spent the last 4 years. It all makes sense now.
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see…God does have a sense of humor
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