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saras Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-11 09:39 PM
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10. WEIRD definition of team
"A team is a primarily a vehicle for personal sacrifice."
No, that's a cult. The purpose of a team is to get something done.

"Individual concerns are set aside."
No they're not. One chooses a team that supports them. To work for a team that is opposing your interests is foolish or worse.

"Personal will is curbed."
Who, on a football team, is going to actually contact an opponent without an enormous amount of personal will manifested in that exact moment?

"resolve themselves to accepting things they don't like"
There's a difference between 'things you don't like' and 'things that betray the team's purpose'.

Following the link in the Kos article, I though this poster made a good point...
"Why waste time blasting him for college religous BS and not for recent comments about businesses being within their rights to post "no blacks allowed" on their windows?!!­?"
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  - That was a good laugh  judesedit   Dec-10-10 09:41 AM   #6 
  - Yeah, but you aren't the one laughing.  Ken Murray   Mar-13-11 10:32 PM   #13 
  - Republicans...  jebenn23   Jan-01-11 11:18 PM   #7 
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  - Starting offensive and defensive tackle on my varsity football team  Suji to Seoul   Jan-09-11 03:40 AM   #8 
  - By the sounds of it, you are/were a sucker punching, dirty pool-playing locker room bully...not a  judesedit   Jan-13-11 09:05 AM   #9 
  - By the sounds of it,  Ken Murray   Mar-13-11 10:43 PM   #15 
  - WEIRD definition of team  saras   Jan-14-11 09:39 PM   #10 
  - Weird?  Ken Murray   Mar-13-11 10:55 PM   #16 
  - selfish, big mouth, grandstanding Democrats?  3rd_Speaker   Feb-10-11 11:50 AM   #12 
  - democrats?  Ken Murray   Mar-13-11 11:00 PM   #17 
  - Amen  center_left   Apr-10-11 12:46 PM   #18 
  - let me explain why the GOP are idiots  tigereon   Apr-11-11 12:14 PM   #19 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Nov-09-11 08:50 PM   #20 
 

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