Why is it so hard for a losing team to accept defeat?

Question

They were out smarted out coached and out played and cry foul because their team lost the game.

Are they poor sports and sore loses? Or
Is it because they know the better team won and refuse to accept it? Please explain your answer

Wow! So far some excellent answers!

Answer 1

It's not always hard, but sometimes, when a team plays its tails off and loses, it's quite a bummer because they were trying so hard to win. At least the teams the gripes about losing cares about trying to win.

Sportsmanship is great, but you don't want to have an apathetic team out there. True, some teams may believe they're entitled to winning every year because of tradition/past success, and those teams need occasional lessons in humility. But the losing team is not always such a team - maybe they just care too much sometimes.

Answer 2

"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi.

When a team is fairly outplayed, yes, that result is accepted, but if a team accepts too many losses, they never become winners. When Tom Seaver joined the Mets, he rejected the team's image of "loveable losers" and fought fiercely for each game. It paid off two years later with 100 wins and the World Series. And Seaver had one out of every four of those wins. Being a fierce competitor did not diminish the perception of Seaver as a nice guy, either.

Answer 3

I think once you're on a losing organization it becomes easier to accept defeat because winning is not expected. Therefore players become complacent when they win a few, then lose 5 in a row. The Detroit Tigers were complacent in their losing ways, there was a losing mentality here, but they changed up almost everyone, got a new manager who won't allow such a mentality to overtake his team.

Answer 4

First congrats to the India cricket team.properly they were a close knit team and each and absolutely everyone contributed to the communities fulfillment.The team has to save the momentum going.properly with the quantity of fewer checks being performed all round it is going to likely be fairly interesting to make certain how lengthy the team will be on the summit.reported and executed a properly contested series,prevailing and dropping are 2 aspects of a similar coin,with the only dayers arising the Lankans can placed the attempt defeat in the back of and concentrate on notching the ODI series.thanks for both the communities for shelling out some enteraining cricket.

Answer 5

Noone likes losing and losing doesnt always mean you werre outcoached or even outplayed for the matter. Sometimes shear luck or the way the ball bounces can determine the outcome of a game. Also, there are lots of players on every team and there is bound to be at leat one who wont accept it and is more outspoken then the teammates

Answer 6

A team doesn't go into competition with the mentality that it will lose. A team who is complacent with losing can accept defeat. A team who feels destined to win, innately thinks it still can.

Answer 7

You never lost so you probably would not know this... Oh wait you did lose... Why are you asking?

Whats the use in taking defeat like a man if you can be a baby about it?

Answer 8

Loosing sucks especially when teams work hard and do anything to win, and remember because someboby is sad they lost it doesn't mean they don't accept defeat.

Answer 9

Because it's against Human Nature to admit you're not good enough.

Answer 10

no one likes to lose especially winners who have an off night