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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One day that 14 year old - and the other "sports at all cost" 14 year olds will get married - and guess what - I bet nobody will think twice about blowing off their wedding(s). Because there's a great big difference between the all-me-all- the- time people and people that genuinely love and care about their family and friends.  And I know this is true because everybody blew off one of my sisters 3 kids weddings because he grew up to be an entitled pompous ass and so was his wife.  It was a packed house for the other two.  End of story.[/quote]

My guess is that he will have a huge wedding because he spend years fostering relationships with teammates. Long weekends in crappy hotels, trying to stay entertained between tournament games, sharing their Gatorade when their teammate forgot theirs. 
He will have a hard time picking the best man since he has so many close friends. 
They will all toast their friend who got cancer in high school and talk about the time the whole soccer team raised money for his recovery. They will dedicate a toast to him and his wife and 3 kids. At the wedding will be a coach or two that were mentors to him and helped him get his first job.
He will go onto to coach multiple sports teams and mentor many kids in his future... just for the love of it.

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Lol this must be what nutty parents think will happen to justify the nuttiness.  I played sports my entire life and through college at a D1 school and it was great, but this is quite the romanticized version of it.  I was also in a sorority, travelled abroad, etc., and all of that was great too and I am sure contributed to who I am.  So did my dad's sarcastic sense of humor and my ingrained family ethos that we show up for each other.  Sports can be a piece of a puzzle, but it's not the whole puzzle.  And, a lot of people have shitty sports experiences and would be better off having just foregone it.  Or sports just weren't that influential (e.g., they sat the bench, didn't get too much joy from it, and never really played again post-high school).  I have friends like this.[/quote]

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