Saturday, February 26, 2022

Win or Lose...

Limerick Number ? (so who's counting?) 

When television first came to this part of the country in the 1950s, a sportscaster named Bill Weaver reported the scores on WDAY. He’d end every spot with a wink and a line I’ve never forgotten, one that could be used today.


Bill Weaver on sports would exhort

from the piles of scores that he’d sort

Teams and players filled his time

always ending with this line,

“Win or lose, be a good sport.”




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