Don't put down people as losers! At the end of the day, we're all losers--we all lose to the Grim Reaper.
My problem with sports movies it that after the team gets their act together and comes from behind to pull off a dramatic upset victory, I'm left wondering, "How did the other team feel?" (A critic in The New Yorker wrote, "Only two kinds of people usually enjoy sports movies: children, who like fairy tales, and businessmen, who like motivational lectures.")
Losing can benefit us. Remember the Falklands War in 1982? Argentina actually benefited more from losing the war--they got rid of their dictatorship--then Great Britain did from winning! It's a shame that both countries couldn't have lost.
There's a Gordon Lightfoot song, "If You Could Read My Mind," with the line, "The hero often fails." It seems to me that this is something Canadians understand better than Americans, who are such believers in winning that they think a hero has to win all the time! I guess people like the Russians and the Irish understand it too.
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