Even if you are not a sports fan, keep reading, because this might speak to you
With baseball now in full swing (well, in partial swing) and football considering a kickoff in a few weeks, here is a sports-grounded change of pace for all the pandemic-saturated readers of this column. Even if you are not a sports fan, keep reading, because this might speak to you.
There were only 15 minutes left in the game, and the Atlanta Falcons football team held a commanding 19-point lead over their hated rivals from Boston, the powerful, unbeatable Patriots. Atlanta was only minutes away from the pinnacle of the football world, a Super Bowl victory. And then football lightning struck: 15 minutes later, the Patriots had defeated the Falcons, 34 to 28.
No one can explain what happened. To this day there are postmortems and what-ifs and might-have-beens and finger-pointing at the coaches and players. Just last month an Atlanta Journal column reopened the entire painful episode.
To this day, yes. But the loss happened three years ago, in 2017, surely enough time to get over it. Granted, they lost an important game, but it was only a game. Even for the loss of a human being, mourning has a limit. Life must go on.
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