Super Bowl Monday!

One of the things I love about living on the other side of the world is that events like the Super Bowl are on real time which happens to be Monday morning for us. This morning my husband and I sat to watch the Super Bowl game between the New England Patriots and the Atlanta Falcons.   Unfortunately, the Falcons lost in overtime tonight, but the game was fantastic and a ton of fun to watch.  

 I couldn’t help but think of how cool the dynamic is at a Football game.  There is something incredibly energizing about having an entire stadium of people cheering for their team to win.  There is a passion and energy amongst the crowd that you cannot help but get caught up in. The music and dancing just adds to the fun. Having so many people focused on a common goal of winning is incredibly exciting.  And I love that everyone is cheering each other on.  Total strangers become friends for the period of the game, high-fiving the people around them that they have never even met before.  Everyone is united.   

 I also think there is so much excitement in watching these incredibly talented players who have truly honed their skills to the point that it is genuinely a thing of beautiful to watch them play.    They inspire everyone watching to want to grow in their own talents and abilities.  It is just awesome. One great lesson that I took away from tonight’s game:  The Patriots and Falcons were tied and the game went into overtime.  The Patriots pulled ahead in the last minute of the game and it looked impossible for the Falcons to catch up.  What really impressed me is that even though everyone knew that the chances of the Falcons of winning were almost nil with just a few seconds on the clock, the Falcons players still gave it 100%. Earlier in the game it was the other way around. The Falcons were winning by 25 points! The score was 3 to 28 and I thought there was no way they could pull it off but they did! 

It took the Falcons by surprised. They ran out of gas. I could see that they were exhausted and worn out and somewhat discouraged in that last minute, but nonetheless they kept going and they didn’t let up for even a second.  Even though they didn’t win the game tonight, it was truly inspiring to me to see that they continued to give full effort right up till the final whistle rang.  It would have been so easy to slack off and just let the clock run out, but they didn’t do that, and win or lose they could walk away tonight knowing they gave it their all and ultimately that is what matters in life, for all of us.  It isn’t whether we win or lose in life that counts, it’s that we give it 100% and we keep trying all the way until our final bell rings, walking away knowing we left it all on the court.  That is winning.  For all of us.  Thanks Falcons for reminding me of that tonight and thanks Patriots for doing the impossible scoring so many points in the last 18 minutes to win this game. The score board in the end was 34 to 28. Amazing!