One Comedian’s Arguments Against What We Were Taught to Believe.

“There is no ‘I’ in team.” — Anonymous (but probably some sports asshole)

My earliest sports-related memory is from when I was five or six years old and I joined my school’s intramural soccer team. My second sports-related memory is that I was terrible at soccer. My third sports-related memory is of the elation I felt when I quit soccer. No more after-school practices, watching the sunlight and my precious out-of-school hours slowly fade away. No more numb toes and fingers from the wickedly damp Pennsylvania wind. And best of all, no more teammates. I could fly solo now and do my own thing. Their goals — literal or figurative — no longer mattered.

Thus came my first... Read More