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Page > WORTHIEST HERALD Section B Thursday, Sapttmbr 3,1ft5 Advice Dick Peterson Losing is intolerable for this football fan Winning isn't everything ... Winning isn't everything. For the first time in my life I have to remind myself that winning isn't everything. The problem is, I can't convince myself that winning, indeed, isn't everything. The end justifies the means. To the victors, go the spoils. Winn­ ing, of course, isn't everything. It's the only thing! As fall ap­ proaches, these steinbrennerisms rumble through my mind. God focbid»l've developed a Notre Dame mentality. I should be ashamed of myself, but shame is for losers. A national championship is in the air, and I'm salivating. The adrenaline is pumping, my blood is boiling. The worst of my nightmares has been realized: I'm imitating the creatures who stalk television sets on Sundays and Mondays in search of the Na-' tional Football League. - • I'm from Iowa. And Iowa is going to win the national collegiate footbaflchampionship. 1 just know it will. Anything less than a perfeclJseason will be unacceptable. It's not how they play the game that counts, this year, it's winning that counts. Only winn­ ing. Losing will be intolerable. I'll probably spend my Saturday afternoons this fall in front of the television set, watching the Hawkeyes romp, rip and roust op­ ponent after opponent. I'll swill beer and swallow potato chips whole. The empties will be fired at the set on broken plays, and 1 can only hope I don't catch a Jay's in my^wtfdpipe on missed op­ portunities of gold. Do you see what I mean? Football won't be fun anymore. There was a time when Iowa football could be ranked among the worst played in the country. It was like that for 19 years, a genera­ tion of seasons that went by without a winning record. When Iowa finally awoke from its slumber, when it finally became free of that teenage atoatross, the Hawkeyes found themselves in the Rose Bowl on rafw Year's Day. It was a Horatio Alger season. Of course, the Iowa loss in Pasadena was nothing less than convincing. The Hawkeyes didn't even score. Sure, it was disappointing. But after 19 frustrating years of foot­ ball, being there was enough -- win, lose or lose bad. It was fUn to watch Iowa play football on New Year's Day. Success soured my attitude towardjprofessional football. At one time, I liked pro football. I was a Minnesota Vikings fan, growing up with them during their glory years. The Purple People Eaters went to their first Super Bowl in 1970 and were defeated by Kansas City's Chiefs. It was fun. In the ensuing years, the Vikings went to the Super Bowl three more times. Each time, they were defeated soundly. Success began to take on a different meaning. No longer was advancing to the Super Bowl enough. The Vikings had to win. Success was measured in Winning the last game of the season, now. The entire season had become one game; when your team loses the only game of the season, you become bitter. I no longer watch professional football. I don't enjoy it anymore. The process is repeating itself With Iowa football. And I can't in­ hibit those feelings. I know my expectations are too high. I know I should enjoy each game, win or lose. Losing is a part of life and it has to be accepted with grace. In the greater scheme of things, what difference does ball game .make? So what If Iowa blows its chance tor a nattonal championship by losing to the awful Minnesota Gophers in the 1 final game of the season? •;*» It's not like I'm Chuck Long or even a benchsitter. I'm just a fan tucked away in a corner of Illinois. Wheaties isn't going to ask me to endorse its cereal if Iowa wins the national championship. Like every other football fan, I'm just a spectator, one who would real­ ly enjoy seeing Iowa atop the collegiate football polls in January. The problem is that I'm losing all grip on reality. I know life should be worth living after Iowa gets upset by some podunk school with no right to be on the same field as the Hawkeyes. Something tells me, however, when that happens, life will be meaningles.s, G lve me a sedative; Iowa opens the season in 10 days. DEAR ABBY By Abigai l Van Burer r ' Loser in love longs for blissful ignorance j DEAR ABBY: Who wrote, "'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all"? Speaking for myself, I would, rather not know what I'm missing. I would be interested in knowing how you feel about it. THREE-TIME LOSER DEAR T.T.L. f Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote those words, and I agree with him. v_Thei>pposirifc philosophy, "Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise," was expressed by Thomas Gray. , That is not to say that ignorance is always bliss, for in some cases, what you don't know can hurt you. £ people are shy? QUIET BUTSHY t X DEAR ABBY: Thank you for recently including in your column letters dealing with quiet people. It's time for us quiet ones to be heard. I am one of those quiet types, but contrary to what you and others may think, I am not quiet because I am shy. I am quiet because I am secure; I don't have to sell myself or prove anything. Abby, why do you assume that all quiet DfiAR QUIET: I do not assume that all quiet people are shy; I believe that most quiet people are shy because my mail tells me so. But then, all generalizations are dangerous, including this one. DEAR ABBY: This is for "Embarrassed Mother," who took it upon herself to send written apologies plus thankf*for all her daughter's wedding gifts because six months had passed and the gifts had not been acknowledged. That mother had her nerve for butting in. When I was married, I was three months' pregnant and fueling lousy. I had all I could do to drag myself out of bed every morning to go to work, but I had to, because my husband was laid off and we needed the money, I managed to write about half my thank-you notes, but I was too embarrassed to send them because so much time had already gone by, so I didn't send any. Whenever I ran into people who asked if I got their wedding gift I would explain wj happened and thank them for the gift. Mj people were very understanding and s^id, "That's OK. I just1wondered if you got it." * MY SIDE OF^IT f DEAR MY SIDE: I still say, better late t9an never. Read on for a letter from another embarrassed mother, and how she handled i DEAR ABBY: My daughter-in-law vas another one who took forever to get her.tha nk- you notes off after the wedding. Six or seven months later, if someone as! ted me if my daughter-in-law had ever received their wedding present, I'd say, "I'll give ; ou her telephone number; why don't you call fi)d ask her?" Of course I was embarrassed, but I refu ted to let someone lay a guilt trip on me. NOT MY FAULT (Getting rfiarried? Send for Abby's ntw, updated, expanded booklet, "How to Have a Lovely Weddl ifl." Send your name and address clearly printed With a c leek or money order for $2.50 and a long, stamped (39 c< nts) self-addressed envelope to: Dear Abby, Wed ling Booklet, P.O. Box 38923, Hollywood, Calif. 90038.) More than 'all-out AIDS' Mild cases of AIDS cause mental anguish Health Watch ByDonKlrkman Scripps Howard News Service People infected with a mild ver­ sion of AIDS have more mental problems than those who have a killer version of the virus, according to a New York psychiatrist. Victims of mild AIDS - which doctors call ARC (for AIDS Related Complex) -- live with a sense of impending doom because they know they may come down with all-out AIDS, psychiatrist Jimmie Holland says. The mental turmoil of knowing there's a one-in-six chance of ARC turning into AIDS is excruciating, Holland said. A study of 50 ARC victims showed frequent mental upsets: -bouta^f de­ pression, grief, anger, suicidal tUOughts, lowered self-esteem and sadness. > In contrast, most people who know they have AIDS are calmer and re­ signed to their fate, he said. Both illnesses are caused by a virus that destroys the body's ability to defeat infections and cancers. There are two csfees of ARC for cer of the lymphatic system called Hodgkin's disease: Though most people are called cancer-free if they show no sign of disease for five years, a small num­ ber of Hodgkin's patients won't get their clean bill of health for 12 years. Hie problem, the National Cancer Institute's Dr. Dan Longo says, is that 7 percent of Hodgkin's patients are coming down wij&second can­ cers, mostly leukemia; years after their treatments. Researchers have known about the problem since the mid-1970s but have recently found the second can­ cer risk disappears after 12 years. S E M are every case of AIDS. * * • Bad news for a small number of people who are recovering from can- Alumni donate restaurant to university TIFFIN, Ohio (UPI) - Some grateful university graduates donate libraries. Four Tiffin University al- muni have decided to give a restau­ rant to their alma mater. . * It's no small gift. The 10-year-old Pioneer Mills restaurant -- which Includes a 4.75 acre site along the Sandusky River, the restaurant's in­ ventories and accounts receivable -- is worth more than $1 million. The restaurant was owned by six people, four of whom are almuni of Tiffin, a small business college with fewer than 1,000 students. "The owners are all getting up in years and they don't want anything to do with it," said Doyle Ballreich, one of the owners. The owners made no attempt to sell the business but decided to do­ nate if three months ago after re­ viewing several options, Ballreich said. "Once we decided to make this gift, we chose Tiffin University as the recipient because it is clearly an institution which is on the move and which is making significant contri­ butions to this community and this state," he said Tuesday. - "The university will cxtfumue to operate the Pioneer Mill as * fine restaurant," said George Kida Jr., university president. "We really see no major changes." 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