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My response to "Winning Actually Isn't The Only Thing" By David Maraniss
Before I began reading Maraniss’ article I had a preconceived idea that
it would be just another article belittling the replacement NFL refs. We’ve
heard it all already. I was pleasantly surprised
to see that his article didn’t
even start by talking about the game. It started with an explanation of why his
mood was already sour before the Packers vs. Seahawks game; and honestly, whose
mood isn’t sour when talking about Mitt Romney.
Throughout his
article Maraniss points out that while he is upset over the final touchdown
call of that tragic game he is far more outraged at the response by the
quarterback and head coach of the Seahawks. Both of these professionals acted
and spoke as if the right call was made and that the Seahawks had obviously won
fair and square. As a Packer fan Maraniss is livid that these two men couldn’t
stand up and be the bigger man saying that it was the wrong call and perhaps
they shouldn’t have won the game. Maraniss then tries to look at it from their
side. If it had been the other way around and the Packers had won due to a bad
call, would he be just as upset?
As an avid Packers
fan myself I would like to think that if it were the other way around I would
be the person who stands up and says no, this isn’t right and we didn’t deserve
to win. I enjoyed reading this article and thoroughly agree with Maraniss that
the real tragedy isn’t that the Packers lost but that the Seahawks celebrated
like they actually won something.
I enjoy and agree with your perspective of this article of how the worst part of the game overall is how the Seahawks celebrated a really bad end to the game. While I myself am not a big football fan, I do love my baseball, and I would like to think that if there was a bad call I would be a person to stand up and say no as well.
ReplyDeleteI like how you really emphasize of how the referees and coaches acted as if they won the game fair and square, when in reality it was a bad call. I think that all of us from Wisconsin at least would agree with this reasoning. More importantly you point out the question, how would we react if it was our team that benefited from the call? This is exactly what you made clear, and really gets us thinking as the reader.
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