> On Mar 13, 1:00 pm, shawn
gmail.com> wrote:>> On 13 Mar 2007 08:38:03 -0700, "Ken McElhaney"
hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>>>>On Mar 13, 10:04 am, Invid Fan
localnet.com> wrote:>>
>>>> McElhaney
hotmail.com> wrote:>>>>> I was particularly surprised that Rob or Amber didn't write down
>>>>> each
>>>>> location from the map, then double check their spelling on the
>>>>> signs.
>>>>> But I think by that time, both of them had pretty much let their
>>>>> game
>>>>> slide. There are a lot of factors involved, but I got the feeling
>>>>> that the old "been there, done that, why are we here?" crept in.
>>
>>>> It's sometimes said in sports that it's good for a team to lose at
>>>> least once, to remind them to keep playing hard and that they won't
>>>> ALWAYS luck into a win.
>>
>>>Perhaps, although I remember John Madden saying that "Losing is never
>>>a good thing, period."
>>
>> But in TAR, on all but the last leg, it's fine to come in second. So
>> long as you don't come in last you are always safe (except for that
>> last leg.) Think of as more of an endurance race than a single game
>> which is what John Madden was thinking of.
>
> Well, that's not the context in which John Madden was talking about.
> He made that comment during a game featuring a team that was
> undefeated (Indianapolis, the season before they won the Super Bowl)
> and was asked if it would be better if Indy lost during the season so
> the pressure would be reduced going into the playoffs. His answer was
> the one I used.
>
>>>> By winning the first three legs, Romber just
>>>> starting thinking they'd always win.
>>
>>>Perhaps so. At first, they seemed eager to do the "sign" Detour and
>>>even knew to start at Seville. But when they didn't get it the first
>>>time, they didn't go through their usual pattern of stopping, re-
>>>reading the clue, and systematically going through what they did to
>>>correct the mistake. They seemed almost resigned to their fate,
>>>despite the fact that they were still in it until the post office.
>>
>> Well Rob said that not being at the front of the pack the entire race
>> put them off their game. Maybe they were being affected by the lack of
>> sleep more than usual?
>>
>>>During TAR7 they made a couple of mistakes (the FF for one) and got
>>>fired up and went faster, really trying to stay in the race. They
>>>lacked that "fire" this time.
>>
>> Well, they still could have saved themselves if they had just found
>> their letter. It just seemed like Rob had been so frustrated by the
>> problems with the sign post task that he couldn't focus on the letters
>> and move through them quickly enough. So he let a team that was at
>> least five minutes behind them (and maybe more) pass them which led to
>> their being eliminated.
>
> He just didn't seem all that motivated.
>
He stopped being movitated the moment that he found out he was on the second
flight out. Amber made him admit he was not happy about it. Rob got use to
being up front and he said too many times he was going to win this race.
Remember when he told Phil on the 3rd leg that it didn't matter if they
didn't come in first any more, as long as they came in first on the last
leg..... Well guess what it mattered.
>> We've seen it happen over and over again. Teams that look great make
>> one small mistake and it can lead to their being eliminated. Even if
>> they had brought back only the winners this season we would still see
>> teams get eliminated by making small mistakes that build and end up
>> causing them to get eliminated
>
> I'm just sayin' that the attitude of Romber in S7 was different than
> this season. Last time, they fought back hard after falling behind,
> not this time.
>
He never counted himself out until the very end. I think he expected to
beat Charla and Mirna in a foot race....
