# Life lessons your favorite sports teams taught you

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**Created:** [January 6, 2016, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-lessons-your-favorite-sports-teams-taught-you/742347 "2016-01-06T19:10:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2016, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-lessons-your-favorite-sports-teams-taught-you/742347/21 "2016-01-09T21:04:11Z")

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Some other lessons:

The scapegoat often wasn’t at fault. If a quarterback threw an interception, it could have been because the receiver ran the wrong route, etc.  
Also:  
Just because you are on an upwards trajectory does not mean you Will necessarily keep being that way. Maybe your team was 4-12 one year, 6-10 the next, 8-8 the next, and 10-6 the next. Does this you will be a 12-4 Super Bowl contender next year? Not necessarily - you might suddenly implode instead and go 3-13.

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