So Proud of this Team!

"Winning isn't everything," American fútbol coach Vincenzo Lombardo famously proclaimed, hard salami wedged in the gap in his choppers, "there's also losing, but that's the thing we hope to avoid." Losing is the other side of the tossed coin, as 'twere, rarely championed on the sporting pages, yet the station house is doing so today with pride, as we offer an overdue doff of the patrolman's helmet to another coach, one Louis "Red" Klotz, and his team, the Washington Generals. Unfounded in 1952, this perennial nemesis of the famed Harlem Globetrotters has lost an astounding 17,000+ games to the round ballers from New York's Harlem borough, all with unfailing resilience; indeed, these clumsy-footed pale-faces continue to lace up their Red Ball Jets® and hike up their shorty shorts 'bout their nutsacks to face down Meadowlark Melon and his trick-shotting mates, eyeballs to distended belly buttons. Klotz once said the Generals were the Ginger Baker to the 'Trotters’ Fred Astaire, dancing madly backwards on a sea of air, and who can argue with that when you don't understand the reference? In any case, the Washington Generals will always be winners in our eyes, still standing tall after all these years, airballs at the ready!