I thought about discussing the actual game itself. There are a lot of hot topics right now and it would be easy to go into them. But you know what, I want to talk about football and life in general, because I think there are some extremely important points to make about Super Bowl XL.
We participate in sports, as players and as fans, for fun. But sports is also practice for real life. The lessons we learn, the growth as people, that we derive from sports ultimately get applied to our real lives. Perhaps there is nothing more important in life than the difference between doing what you feel is right, and not doing what is right and instead taking an easy (or less controversial) path.
Right now, the overwhelming majority of NFL fans feel the officiating was absolutely horrible and one-sided in favor of the Steelers. I'm not going to detail the calls here. I'm also not going to say that it was done on purpose. Some might say they have never seen a game where one team more clearly outplayed the other and lost because a horde of bad calls went against them.
The point I want to make is about a life lesson. A character check. Here is what I am getting at. I think it is one thing to believe in your heart that the refs (willingly or unwillingly) did or did not hand the game to the Steelers with all of those bad calls. But I think it is another to believe in your heart one version and then be afraid to say what your heart feels because you don't want to cause a controversy, you don't want to cause a stink, you want to take an easy path. There is NOTHING classy in that - it is the path of a coward.
Its the people that truly believe in their heart that the Seahawks lost this game because of the refs and who never state it publically because they want to take the easy path that are the true losers here. You can bet there are many in the Steeler organzation and in the NFL that feel the refs were to blame for the Seahwks' loss. If not one of them come out and speak what their heart knows, then the NFL has lost a TON of credibility and honor. For the lesson the NFL is teaching is for people to not speak out about injustices their heart believes exist. That is a lesson no-one can agree with, regardless of your belief about the outcome of Super Bowl XL.
Woe to those who take the easy path.
We participate in sports, as players and as fans, for fun. But sports is also practice for real life. The lessons we learn, the growth as people, that we derive from sports ultimately get applied to our real lives. Perhaps there is nothing more important in life than the difference between doing what you feel is right, and not doing what is right and instead taking an easy (or less controversial) path.
Right now, the overwhelming majority of NFL fans feel the officiating was absolutely horrible and one-sided in favor of the Steelers. I'm not going to detail the calls here. I'm also not going to say that it was done on purpose. Some might say they have never seen a game where one team more clearly outplayed the other and lost because a horde of bad calls went against them.
The point I want to make is about a life lesson. A character check. Here is what I am getting at. I think it is one thing to believe in your heart that the refs (willingly or unwillingly) did or did not hand the game to the Steelers with all of those bad calls. But I think it is another to believe in your heart one version and then be afraid to say what your heart feels because you don't want to cause a controversy, you don't want to cause a stink, you want to take an easy path. There is NOTHING classy in that - it is the path of a coward.
Its the people that truly believe in their heart that the Seahawks lost this game because of the refs and who never state it publically because they want to take the easy path that are the true losers here. You can bet there are many in the Steeler organzation and in the NFL that feel the refs were to blame for the Seahwks' loss. If not one of them come out and speak what their heart knows, then the NFL has lost a TON of credibility and honor. For the lesson the NFL is teaching is for people to not speak out about injustices their heart believes exist. That is a lesson no-one can agree with, regardless of your belief about the outcome of Super Bowl XL.
Woe to those who take the easy path.
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