To the unnamed mod who fixed the title of this thread, thank you. I usually make fun of people that use "to" instead of "too" because it bugs me too know end.
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Originally Posted by Cory
Drawing a comparison between the NFL and FIRST is completely irrelevant. Dean doesn't want FIRST to be anything like professional sports, so how can you possibly associate the two?
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Cory, what would you propose we compare this competition to? It still
is a competition right? If you can produce a better parallel, we'll use it. But you must understand it is neccesary to compare FIRST with something that shares similarities with it in order to illuminate certain aspects of it that may be... well, suspect.
No, FIRST is not the NFL. No FIRST teams don't all get a maximum of one award. Was it not clear to you I understood and acknowledged these facts fully before you chimed in? We should take them for what they are: evidence, not proof.
But back to the sporting comparisons, Dean himself said FIRST was supposed to (among other things) curb the systemic pro sports worship in American culture, because frankly, there are more important things. Do you really think it's strange that we are drawing parallels to the NFL? I needn't remind you we're all part of teams that wear uniforms in large stadiums and compete for an ultimate prize. But if that's not enough to convince you, Dean also refered to FIRST in 2003 as something else quite explicitly:
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Originally Posted by Dean Kamen
The Superbowl of Smarts
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You suggest that Dean doesn't want FIRST to be anything like professional sports. As Billfred points out, how do you know that?
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Originally Posted by Anubuss
I say they don't give out enough, but only becasue they currently don't have the funds to hand out as many as they could.
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How do you figure they don't have enough money to cut some more plastic? They already make over a thousand trophies every year. It doesn't cost much more than that.