Welcome into Outkick the Show. I am your fearless leader Clay Travis and I hope all of you are having a fantastic Tuesday.

Wherever you may be across this great country or this great land, we have got a lot of different ridiculous stories to dive into.

But we begin with what I think is the most ridiculous story I've seen in sports in a long time.

Earlier this morning, overseas in the Olympics, Simone Biles, the best Olympian on the U.S. Women's Gymnastics team, pulled herself out of competition because she said she didn't feel right mentally.

Her team went on to lose to Russia and get the silver medal.

Since this happened, somehow Blue Check Twitter has decided that Simone Biles is heroic and courageous and praiseworthy for quitting on her team.

And I know there are all sorts of wild opinions in Blue Check Brigade Twitter that end up being the consensus opinion. But I gotta be honest with you, this is one of the craziest I've ever seen as it pertains to the world of sports.

So let's leave aside Simone Biles for a moment. Just talk about some past sports stories that many of us are familiar with.

In 1994, Scotty Pippin refused to take the floor to play for the Chicago Bulls against the Nix. That was nearly 30 years ago.

Pippin refused to take the floor because the final shot play design had been designed for Tony Kukoucch and not him. He went and set on the bench and left his team out there on the court.

By the way, Tony Kukoucch hit the shot and the Bulls went on to win that game. Scotty Pippin nearly 30 years later is still apologizing for that decision.

And the decision came from a Mitz competitive drive. He felt he was the leader of the team and that he should get the final shot in that situation.

And when he wasn't given the final shot in that situation, he refused to play. He's been justifiably crushed for nearly three decades for that decision.

But again, at its root, this was about competition. Can you imagine what the reaction would be if Michael Jordan or LeBron James set out of game seven of the NBA finals after starting being completely healthy and saying I just didn't feel mentally right, I couldn't handle the pressure.

Can you imagine what we would say about them quitting on their team?

Can you imagine if Tom Brady, when the New England Patriots had gotten down 28 to three, had decided to wave out and had not continued to play in the Super Bowl?

Think about how much we would crush Tom Brady. Think about how much we crushed Jay Cutler in the NFC championship game for having a significant knee injury and standing on the sideline and not playing Ladinian Tom Linson, not playing.

How about Cam Newton just not trying to dive on the football late in his game against the Denver Broncos?

We crush male athletes. Any time we see them giving anything less than 100% effort in team sports. We destroy them.

We hold them to a high standard as not only individual athletes extraordinaire, but also as teammates.

The reason that most of us put our kids in sports is not because we think they are going to grow up and become pro athletes.

It's to teach the values that are instilled by athletic competition.

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