Not sure, but maybe awards were also dispensed for Cleanest Uniform, Waterboy/Girl with Quickest Dispensing Time and Most Compassionate Player.
Except at the most rudimentary level, it's winning that counts in sports. League officials who award kids at season's end for mere participation are partly to blame. But parents bear culpability, too. If a child isn't consistently, for a protracted period of time, athletically ahead of his/her peers, Mom (and especially Dad) must cease to push little Timmy or Julie each week so they can one day share vicariously in being the laurel-crowned objects of opponents' ire, cheering crowds and homecoming festivities.
So, to the 99.98% of parents whose kids will not make the pros, face the relative fact: you kid sucks. Get over it. Do your job as a responsible parent & steer him/her to an appropriate academic venue. If not academically inclined, a trade school might be appropriate. But for the sake of their future don't continue to coddle them into thinking there's a chance when in reality there's none.
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