great movie, terrible ending!

I've loved this movie since I first watched it, but the ending is really sad and disappointing (even if it doesn't look so at first). The members of the Bears team look happy right before the end of the movie, they're jumping, dancing and laughing, but I don't believe they're really happy-happiness is not what they really feel after the final game. Look at the moment when Buttermaker gets a second place trophy-does he look happy? Look at those kids when they face the Yankees team after the game and listen to that speech from the Yankees team member-they look as if they were going to cry. Do you really think this second place is what they dreamt about? After a year of being laughed at, discouraged and humiliated they shouldn't have lost the final game. Everyone but Buttermaker thought they were a team of losers. In the final game they had the only real chance to prove that everyone who thought so was wrong, they had a chance to be the first team to beat the Yankees and they really were able to do it (Turner was really uncertain about the final score and some actions during the game were not too fair for the Bears)! I think the idea was to make an original movie, by which I mean that in all movies of this kind someone who's really weak at the beginning gradually becomes better and better and finally becomes the best and beats everyone else, while here the intention was to make the movie "realistic" and "unexpected" and show that those who are expected to win in the end not always win...but why did it have to be shown in this movie??? I think I've never seen any other movie in which anyone would deserve to win as much as the Bears team did in this one. After all they've gone through (which was almost a miracle as they all wanted to quit after the first game), for all their effort and astonishing progress they made from the first match with silly score 0-26 to the final game, when they were at the same level as the Yankees (or probably even a little better), they deserved a REAL success, which second place was not. Do you remember what that Yankees team member told them after the match? The Yankees apologized and appreciated a good game, but still didn't think the Bears were a good team! Their situation almost didn't change! They weren't losers anymore, but still not a good team either! Some could say second place is a great success anyway, because no one but Buttermaker expected to see the Bears in the final, but I don't think it was enough for them. Come on, it wasn't fair, they deserved that first place and we all know it! Is there anyone else who thinks the final result was very disappointing? Personally I blame the one who was responsible for that terrible ending of "The Bad News Bears", because it's the only weak point of the movie.