Before you give up on football, you need to go to your local community center and watch all ages and all sizes play to win on Saturdays.  They learn to play as a team and winning as a team is a great motivator of performance. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.  Thank you, Vince Lombardi. 

You understand when you attend.  Dedication, focus, discipline, respect, passion, contribution and collaboration are in action all around you from the water carrier to the linemen to the coach and team players.  And thanks to my very dear friends, I was able to watch their son and his team experience one more “mercy rule”.  The families, cheerleaders and fans make it a better experience than a college or NFL match.  My eye is on No.16.  

 Chandler Holroyd, No. 16 , Jupiter Mustang, in white.  You rock!

Jupiter Mustangs play the Fort Pierce Greyhounds (Saturday, October 9, 2010)

The mercy rule, also well known by the slightly less polite term slaughter rule (or, less commonly, knockout rule and skunk rule), brings a sports event to an early end when one team has a very large and presumably insurmountable lead over the other team. It is called the mercy rule because it spares the losing team the humiliation of suffering a more formal loss, and denies the winning team the satisfaction thereof.

Way to go, Jupiter Mustangs!