Which make us embarrassed.
And just this past weekend, this happened in the NFL!
Did you hear or see the footage of the two coaches' post game hand-shake that went awry? The Detroit Lions' head coach Jim Schwartz took offense at the over exuberance of Jim Harbaugh, whose San Francisco 49ers had handed the Lions their first loss of the season.
A fired-up Harbaugh shook Schwartz's hand, then gave him a hard back-slap, after which Schwartz sprinted after Harbaugh and jawed the coach.
Even a former NFL coach used the word "embarrassing:" Dan Reeves stated, "It's certainly something if you asked those guys now, they both I would hope be embarrassed by what happened."
Even Texas Tech coach said, "It's really embarrassing to see something like that happen in our sport."
This is the PERFECT example of what I was trying to say before. Sometimes after a match we do; something we regret; we react because of the moment; we do something "stupid" that we normally wouldn't do.
It's a reaction to the moment type-of-thing. A rare occurrence (that as I said in my previous blog post) that we should cut people (pro or amateur) some slack.
Ahhh.... real-life examples. Thank you, Coaches!
Here's the vid, in case you didn't see the "altercation."
I don't know if it was about the exuberance with which he shook his hand or more about the fact that it seemed he did it in a hurry almost brushing him off.. like ya.. we beat you.. now move out of my way so we can celebrate...
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