Rocky Balboa & F.F.B.S.

Rocky doesn't like F.F.P.S.

Every suburban American parent suffers the moment when we believe the secret to parenting is in getting our kid in competitive sports; right behind fishing or piano. Soccer, of course, seems the most innocuous; so, despite the fact that most people can’t name one professional American soccer team, we enroll our kids in soccer at or around age 7.

A few years back, a new program erupted on the angst-ridden parenting scene, and it was greeted with great fanfare and excitement as a Revolutionary new program called Fun Fair Positive Soccer or F.F.P.S.

Ever since, F.F.P.S. has been All-The-Rage!! Basically, it has no score, n0 winners, no losers; everyone gets a trophy, and everyone gets a cool-ass jersey… even that kid that picked his nose the entire game.

So what Gene: ‘Why is it wrong that everyone gets a trophy?’ Read more