Well, you know I have to write something about the Super Bowl. I had quite a few posts last season since the Broncos WON, and I haven’t been very involved this year once we sort of dropped off the map. (Next year will be different! I know it!)
Anyway, I was a total ANTI TOM BRADY person. I DON’T LIKE HIM AT ALL. So I was sitting there, totally enjoying his discomfiture, for the first three quarters. But I did think,’Hey, it can’t be this easy. The Patriots aren’t pushovers, whatever else I might think of them.’ And I wondered what was going on in Tom Brady’s mind. Much as I DISLIKE him, he is a master strategist and he stays cool. There he was, throwing incomplete passes all over the place and that interception that led to an 80+-yard touchdown by the Falcons, and he just kept it together. (My
friend Karen and I, who were watching the game while the guys were in the dining room playing games of their own—such non-participants!–are totally of the opinion that the winning Patriots’ touchdown was invalid because the guy’s knee hit the ground before he broke the plane, but trying to call that play back would have been like trying to stop Niagara.)
Anyway, I was reminded of two posts I wrote last season: “Football As Metaphor” and “Football as Metaphor Part II.” If you missed those deep philosophical treatises you can go back and read them now. The big takeaway for me, from those posts and from this game, is, once again, the need to be proactive instead of reactive. The game is a-goin’ on! There ain’t no time for lookin’s back. (Okay, I’ll stop with the fake country twang.)
Well, I’m sure that a) the Falcons will be playing in another Super Bowl soon and b) Tom Brady will now finally retire. The Falcons can’t think of themselves as failures (they aren’t), and the Patriots can’t think of themselves as unbeatable (they aren’t).
What aspect of the past do you need to shake off today?
WOA! We in the northeast are BIG Patriots fans! This was Brady’s 6th win! What an outstanding feat for him and his team! He’s very humble when he talks about his team, a great family man and took his “punishment” like a real sport even though Goodell has something against our team. We don’t apologize for the Pats’ outstanding performance.