--- "John D. Giorgis" wrote:
> Dan Minette wrote:
[I think John wrote:]
> >> Silly me for thinking that they were still
> playing a game out there, and
> >> deciding whether or not to respect certain
> participants in that game based
> >> on the way they played the game.
> >
> >I thought of another thing. As an employee, isn't
> a coach honor bound to
> >maximize the profit of the owners by whatever means
> he can?
>
> Uhhhhh......... No.
<snippage>
>
> And then, of course, there is the "boy who cried
> wolf effect" of using the
> League rules regarding injuries for a competitive
> advantage. Quite frankly, its disgusting......
I can't speak to the football or basketball arenas (or
really any professional sports area, since I just
don't participate/watch, although when I was at LSU I
did attend many home games), but I haven't gone to any
horse shows of the "park" or "performance horse"
variety (Saddlebreds, Morgans, Tennessee Walkers)
since ~ 1987; I witnessed an animal being badly
whipped not for dangerous behavior (deliberate
kicking, biting, bucking), but just to get it "hyped
up" before entering the show ring. [Incidentally, it
took first place.] Inexcusable.
Race horses are also frequently abused: drugs
(although high-profile races like the Triple Crown
require drug testing, IIRC), ping-pong ball up one
nostril (slows the breathing), mis-shoeing a foot to
create lameness, or "nerving" a leg that is genuinely
lame and which would cause the animal not to run
("nerving" is cutting the sensory nerve to that leg to
prevent the animal from feeling the pain of a chipped
bone or strained tendon; eventually of course that
bone will shatter, or the tendon rupture, requiring
the animal to be killed) -- all for profit. I don't
watch them anymore.
And not that long ago, the hunter-jumper world was
"shocked" to learn of owners hiring 'specialists' to
kill horses so that they could collect the insurance
money. Butchers.
VFP Profiteer
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