Duh, Winning...

My football coach, Dick Agee quoted the great Vince Lombardi at a practice one afternoon when he said, “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing!” Now I’m not sure if Lombardi actually said those exact words but it didn’t matter because Coach Agee said it and meant it.

Most people might think that Agee was a win-in-any-way-possible type of coach. I can honestly say that the two most difficult practices I ever participated in followed Friday night victories that Agee felt lacked the kind of effort he was accustomed to seeing his team produce. We had a few losses during those years but sinc...