Sportsmanship

[Vitamike]

Sportsmanship is an aspiration that a sport or activity will be enjoyed for its own sake, with proper consideration for fairness, ethics, respect and a sense of fellowship with one's competitors. A sore loser refers to one who does not take defeat well, whereas a good sport means being a "good winner" as well as being a "good loser".

Sportsmanship can be conceptualized as an enduring and relatively stable characteristic or disposition such that individuals differ in the way they are generally expected to behave in sport situations.

In general, sportsmanship refers to virtues such as fairness, self-control, courage, and persistence and has been associated with interpersonal concepts of treating others and being treated fairly, maintaining self-control if dealing with others, and respect for both authority and opponents.

Sportsmanship is also looked at as being the way one reacts to a sport/game/player/coach or owner.

A competitor who exhibits poor sportsmanship after losing a game or contest is often called "a sore loser" (those who show poor sportsmanship after winning are typically called "bad champs").

Sore loser behavior includes blaming others for the loss, not accepting responsibility for personal actions that contributed to the defeat, reacting to the loss in an immature or improper fashion, making excuses for the defeat, and citing unfavorable conditions or other petty issues as reasons for the defeat.

A bad winner acts in a shallow fashion after his or her victory, such as by gloating about his or her win, rubbing the win in the faces, of the opponent's and lowering the opponen' self-esteem by constantly reminding the opponents "poor" performance in comparison.




Frustrations and disappointments, hell I understand, we are all Rams fans!

So we all know.

Being Men about it, is a choice!

So, go ahead and bitch, hell start your own bitch thread if you want, just don't be an Ass in the process!

Cheers!!

 

[jacobarch]

Whaaaat happened ?
When you guys start typing essays for responses I figure you guys are butching to each other about something. Fill me in

 

[Caynine29]

I'm with jacobarch here. Lol. I don't quite follow on this one.

 

[Vitamike]

Whaaaat happened ?
When you guys start typing essays for responses I figure you guys are butching to each other about something. Fill me in

Actually Jacob, I typed very little.

In green, is just a simple cut and paste from Wiki that I dressed up a bit so it was reader friendly. I hope all read it and agree with it for the most part. There is nothing wrong with wanting some good ole fashioned sportsmanship amongst one another.

I'm with jacobarch here. Lol. I don't quite follow on this one.

Of course there are details involved from several posters however that's not the point, it's not about the drama.

It's about those who choose to post on our board. It is our board, so how we treat one another, our team, it's players and this organization should be about discussions and not constant degradation of our team and team individuals.

Challenging all to act with a little decorum & respect so it is palatable for ALL to feel welcome to post here is my hope.

Some of you may recognize this ....

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

I hope that clears it up!