I’m a pretty even keel kind of guy: hard to shock, not prone to overreaction. But as I sit watching the 4th-quarter of the Saints-Seahawks game, my chin is on my chest.
Did you see that run by Marshawn Lynch?! Everyone on the field -- plus everyone in the booth, in the stands, and in the television audience! -- everyone knew that was going to be a running play. And in spite of that, Lynch pulled off one of the most spectacular, determined, unlikely touchdown runs I have ever seen in all my years of watching football.
(Remember when there was speculation that the Packers might trade for Lynch? But, no… our running game is fine.)
The idiom is that “on any given Sunday…” Perhaps it applies to the occasional Saturday, too. So it was that the defending Super Bowl Champion Saints fell to the Seattle Seahawks -- the team that many were dismissing, not only as the poorest team in the field of twelve, but as one of the poorest teams ever to make the playoffs.
But the Saints are going home, and the Seahawks are going on to the Divisional Round of the playoffs.
‘Remember what I wrote at the end of the last post? I’m beginning to feel nervous…!
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