No. 1 seed goes down ... bad
The title comes from the New York Times Athletic headline this morning; that is, Sunday, January 19th. Last night, as I could not sleep and my head was swimming with thoughts and sentences, I knew I had to write something. Our football team, the Detroit Lions, lost to the Washington Commanders 45-31 while playing at home, in Detroit, and after winning 15 games during their regular NFL football season. I turned the game off in the early minutes of the 4th quarter just after the Lions threw their third interception in the game while trying to run one of the trick plays for which they have become famous. They didn't need to run that trick play. Rather, in my view, they should have got down to their workman-style signature play. Ten yard pick-up pass here, twelve yard pick-up there, an eight yard run ... and so on. They were behind in the score, but they still had time. Washington was playing other worldly football but there was still ...