Losing just might be very good for you

The New York Giants started the NFL season 0 and 5, up there with the Jacksonville Jaguars who the same week were 0 and 4.  Although the Jags will go 0 for the next millennium, the Giants weren't expected to be bad.  And it's having an effect: a prominent New York City “gentleman's club” has stopped showing Giants' games on their TVs because Giants' fans are get too depressed to spend money. One of the, female entertainers said and I quote (remember this is a quote) “Right after Giants games–the guys are sort of deflated.”  But there’s cause for Optimism because psychologists say losing is good for you.  we know losing builds character, and that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger (or as a friend often reminds us: that which doesn't kill you only postpones the inevitable).  But there's research about winning and losing that can help the Giants (for the record, there's nothing that will help the Jaguars).  the research involves children, but I see no reason why it shouldn't apply to football players.  Carol Dweck, Stanford psychology professor, looked at how kids respond to today's everyone-is-a-winner-and-gets-a-trophy culture. She found if kids “win” all the time, they lose an ability to cope with losing, so 0 and 5 is a good thing in the long run because if the Giants were 5 and 0, any setback would send them into the corner, refusing to take their naps. I guess.

..........and that’s the way the ball bounces.