Team that wasn't blog assignment...

In relation to our group's presentation, sports teams seem to be some of the best examples for teams that weren't, although everyone has an opinion when discussing whether or not said team was really a "team that wasn't".
I remember when I played little league baseball there was a team that WAS, but at that age I had no idea how to formulate my thought process to be able to identify what was really going on. I knew 95% of the guys on that team and had played with about 50% of them only a few years earlier. Before being able to identify that this team was one of all the bests, I thought they were the richest and the luckiest, but keep in mind, it wasn't the all star team that always came in the post season. This team had it all: last names printed on the back of their uniforms (cool), everyone had a team batting bag, helmet, HOME & AWAY uniforms!, basically all the gear and sponsorship that hardly ANY of the other teams had! Was it fair?...i don't know.

One thing I did know was that they were good. While we played our first game of the season against this team that was, our uniforms had arrived late. I remember in between about the 3rd inning one of the parents racing the box of uniforms to the game and when it was our turn to bat, our team went from matching hats and dirty pants to matching hats, clean pants, socks, AND jerseys! Those guys on the TEAM must have got a good laugh out of this low sponsored bunch a kids who changed clothes mid game.

I remember my mother pointing out early that it wasn't fair of the parents in that circle to stand their kids out so much against the lower sponsored teams, I understood her argument and agree with most of it simply because there were so many underlying psychological factors that were born that season amongst the minds of the kids on our team and the kids on the TEAM.

I find it interesting that it misses more than it hits when professional teams do this, were the 2007 Patriots a team that kind of wasn't? The 03-04 Lakers, the Yanks??