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Jeerleading

Building mental toughness: it's meanness with a purpose!
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Is all that extra pep at school sporting events getting to be just too much after a while? Perhaps it's time to change things up a bit?

Introducing the latest innovation in school sports...jeerleading!--where specially-trained squads of "jeerleaders" perform clever routines at school sporting events for the sole purpose of taunting, mocking, and generally discouraging teams and their individual players. You see, these special jeerleading squads would perform a crucial supporting role for school sports teams: to instill mental toughness in their players.

While coaching, skill-building and other positive means of boosting morale are an absolutely necessary ingredient of a team's success and--I would argue--should most definitely stay in place, jeerleading would add balance to the team experience by ensuring that only those teams and players which can withstand criticism and insults to their morale would prevail.

Learning to withstand the sneers, jeers, and leers of others would endow players with an unshakable confidence in their own abilities in the face of those who attempt to tear them down, creating a team with rock-solid perseverance and resolve.

So, jeerleading would allow those with natural talents for cleverness, creativity and discouraging others (often seen as an unfavorable combination of traits) to channel their creative gifts for an entirely constructive purpose: to help build a team that will thrive against all odds and ensure survival of the fittest. Plus, face it--this novel form of sanctioned jeering would certainly make for quite the entertaining spectator sport! So everybody wins! (Unless of course you're the opposing team that elects not to employ jeerleaders, in which case clearly you lose.)

Plankton, Feb 12 2015

Cheerleading and chess http://www.nbc.com/...ssics/video/1176536
[normzone, Feb 12 2015]

Sad Trombone http://www.sadtrombone.com/
[Voice, Feb 16 2015]

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       Psychology doesn't work like that.
Voice, Feb 12 2015
  

       Except in the military. Then they give them weapons...
RayfordSteele, Feb 12 2015
  

       So, an Adam Sandler movie?   

       Welcome to the Halfbakery, [Plankton].   

       Will you please hit ENTER a couple of times periodically and give us some paragraph breaks? It makes it much easier to read. Thanks...
normzone, Feb 12 2015
  

       Indeed, welcome to the Inventory, [Plankton].   

       I think that reliable methods to stress out players would be useful in overcoming nerves in things like golf or bowling, or in sports.
MaxwellBuchanan, Feb 12 2015
  

       Give 'em the axe, the axe, the axe! Give 'em the axe, the axe, the axe! Give 'em the axe, give 'em the axe, Give 'em the axe, where?   

       Right in the neck, in the neck, in the neck! Right in the neck, in the neck, in the neck! Right in the neck, right in the neck, Right in the neck! There!
popbottle, Feb 12 2015
  

       I'm reminded of the SNL skit where the cheerleading team is at the chess tournament ;-)
normzone, Feb 12 2015
  

       I have wondered why the marching bands do not play derogatory songs. Maybe because so few songs can be recognized as derogatory from music alone. I think a band could really do well with a full length orchestrated version of "Nyah-nyah na boo-boo".
bungston, Feb 13 2015
  

       PLANKTON PLANKTON PLANKTON +
vfrackis, Feb 16 2015
  

       Promise you will continue to ignore line spacing punctuation spelling and the grammar police on this site.
vfrackis, Feb 16 2015
  

       We have grammar police? I thought it was all grammar cheer leading.
normzone, Feb 16 2015
  

       I don't like this. baaad memories.
dentworth, Feb 16 2015
  

       To think that I normally take on the role of grammar police in most situations, yet here I am forgetting to put line spaces between paragraphs.   

       I must have secretly been wishing to become a jeerleading target...
Plankton, Feb 17 2015
  

       Well done, Lad! [+]
Grogster, Feb 21 2015
  
      
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