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You are probably right but I'll take that problem over the selfish look-at-me show that football and basketball have become.  I'm in the old school camp I guess.  I, too, think a team sport should be a team sport.  I think team or individual victories should both be celebrated with and as a team.  I do like celebration and emotion.  But I think outbursts should come about as natural emotional reaction to an event that evokes such a thing.  That's a big part of what I love about team sports, so when I see the strut, exaggerated stride and point and chest thumping for a routine first down early in the game, it turns my stomach.  Save the orchestrated team dances for rain delays.  Carlton Fisk's leaps and urging the ball to stay fair were real emotion.   The Tiger Woods fist pump when he sinks a putt to win a major is real emotion.  Terrell Owens instructing his teammates to stay away so he can pull off his magic marker stunt is not real emotion... and not team sport.

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