Let me begin with an analogy that a pastor once gave. He likened life with God to being in a 4 X 4 truck. God is driving, and we are in the passenger seat; He had already announced, “We’re going to have some fun, but make sure you put your seatbelt on. Things are going to get bumpy.” I can deeply resonate with that analogy! There is a lot going on in my life right now, and I have not been able to blog as regularly as I would like to. So here’s what I’ve decided to do: last time, I mentioned that I was going to give my thoughts on Super Bowl 59 – which I will be doing today. And in the next blog, another loose end I plan on tying up is some Valentine’s Day thoughts, which was this past Friday already. So that’s where we are going, at least as far as my plans go, but we’ll see what plans God has.
Not too long ago, I came across a you tube channel by a guy named Tom Grossi. He gives humorous reactions to NFL developments from the perspective of an NFL fanbase; he is sitting on a couch, wearing the corresponding NFL jerseys to do this. His recent video titled “Every NFL fan's reaction to Super Bowl 59” has several very funny moments. A link can be found here if interested. It begins, for example, with the Eagles reaction: “You may not like it, but we’re the good guys in this scenario. First, we beat the Patriots, and then the Chiefs. We are Luke Skywalker!” The Chiefs reaction was simply, “I don’t want to talk about it.”
What caught my attention was what he offered as the Seattle Seahawks reaction: “A bird team blowing out a team from the West in the Super Bowl; memories!” Broncos: “No, we are not bringing that up! This is a happy day.” This is a reference to Super Bowl 48, and a 43-8 drubbing. I couldn’t help but think of this game. In the days leading up to that game, everyone seemed to be having trouble predicting a winner. The Broncos were coming in with a high flying offense (still the best in NFL history, by the way, even all these years later!). After the dismantling of the Broncos, some NFL pundit responded, “Defense wins championships. How could I forget?” Yet it seems to easily be forgotten.
As I was watching the Philadelphia
Eagles steamroll the Kansas City Chiefs, I couldn’t help but think of other
various dominant defenses in the Super Bowl in my lifetime. I was too young to remember the ‘85 Chicago
Bears, but I’ve seen clips of how amazing a defense they were; they demolished
the Patriots 46-10 in Super Bowl 20. I thought
of the great defense of the 2000 Baltimore Ravens that beat up on the New York
Giants 34-7. I thought about how the
Denver Broncos rebounded from Super Bowl 48’s debacle by coming into Super Bowl
50 with a stellar defense and stunning the Carolina Panthers, and their potent
offense, defeating them 24-10. Tom Brady’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and a very good defense,
smothered Patrick Mahomes Chiefs in Super Bowl 55, by a score of 31-9. What is my point? Defense wins championships. We’ve seen it time and time again.
Kevin
No comments:
Post a Comment