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Re: FIRST as a sport?
Personally I find it humerous when people talk about FIRST and professional sports. Professional athletes are paid to win. They are not paid to be sportsmanlike, role models, or even to be gracious. Therefore their only goal is, and should be, to win. This single mindedness, regardless of other outcomes, is what makes them professional athletes.
If you want to equate FIRST to sports then you should look to groups like Little League, where the players play, and coaches coach, for the love of the game. Where being a good sport is as important as a good athlete.
It is my deepest hope that FIRST never reaches the point of the professional athlete ... and always remains 'Little League'
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"We are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. "- Tennyson, Ulysses
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When you start thinking of FIRST as a robotic building contest you have left the pavement and you are in deep weeds. - KenWittlief [more] 
21-05-2008, 12:23
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