As I'm sure you know, Super Bowl Sunday is this coming Sunday. So wives, don't forget to put popcorn, brownies, cookies, buffalo wings, etc. on your grocery lists this week. And have your phone handy to call 911 for when your husband's acid reflux is mistakenly thought of as cardiac arrest.
Ah hem ...
I love football and baseball both. Especially if my son is playing them. But, I enjoy professional also. However, in the last few years, my love for pro football has dwindeled down to just about ... nothing.
Why?
Perhaps because my team (Denver Broncos) are, to put it mildly, having issues. I don't mean lack of physcial ability (although maybe there is some of that). I don't mean lack of funds. I mean attitudes that lack sportsmanship, unselfish behavior, and a team togetherness.
Sticktuitiveness.
I am a firm believer in rooting for and sticking with my team, no matter what the score board says. If my team depicts an attitude of selflessness, team spirit, leadership, and spunk - I'm all there. But when the team is divided, so is my loyalty.
Mike Shanahan did an excellent job the first few years he was head coach. And then ...
He started firing everyone, attempting to "start over", year after year. If he was looking for John Elway leadership, and Terrell Davis sportsmanship, integrity, and humbleness, he never found it. Granted, there have been some quality recruits. But as a whole, the team's struggles are due to high levels of discord in the locker room, lack of integrity, and the need for attitude adjustments. Have we had the best athetic ability there ever was? Probably not. But more than that, our attitude has been in the sewer for quite some time, and its fumes are seemingly emitting through my tv screen.
This is what handy dandy off buttons are for.
So what am I going to do about Super Bowl Sunday?
Well fortunately, for me ... Peyton Manning is playing! :)
Now that boy has integrity. Spirit. Sportsmanship. Leadership.
And in turn, his fellow team members follow, adore, and respect him.
Do they have talent galore? You bet!! But without quality leadership with attitude (the right kind of attitude!), and teammates willing to follow, support, and be a team, winning the game becomes as elusive as a mirage in a 120 degree desert.
It's akin to having a table full of gourmet food, sloppily thrown together to make one casserole. Alone, the food may taste delectable. But put all those delectable dishes together, and it makes for a very unpalatable dish.
If you take a sour grape like Brandon Marshall, and add it to a quiche like Champ Bailey, the grape will sour the quiche, and become the overwhelming focus, distraction, and disgust. Because just as grapes sour the quiche, poor attitudes spoil the talent of a team.
For Sunday's menu, I think Peyton and the Colts are planning on cooking up one of the most delectable, palatable, mouth watering games that a hungry-for-football-little-houswife-on-the-prairie could possibly hope for!
Go Colts!!
~Brenda
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