Archive for the 'Chicago Bears' Category

Frustration Must Not Mask Reality

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

That loss to the Chicago Bears Sunday already has had just about every adjective imaginable attached to it, and it is time that we all agree to move forward.

Whether we want to or not, we have to want to; moving forward is the only course of action in any type of event.

And while the frustration felt by every member of the organization and by every true Broncos fan is real and true, we can’t let our lives be controlled by that frustration. All that does is get in the way of our view of reality, and that is where we all ultimately must place our collective focus.

This has been a disappointing season, but it is not over.

And because it is not over, we all have to agree that we do not know how it is going to end. We know it will end, but we don’t know how.

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Chargers Game a Shock to All

Monday, October 8th, 2007

Sometimes you just can’t say anything at all in the way of an explanation for what we have watched.

The National Football League is structured for parity.  We all know that, and most games reflect scores that show one team that barely won and one that barely lost, with a half-dozen scenarios that could have changed the result, sometimes several times over.

But once in a while we witness a game that just starts off bad, gets worse, and before we know it is not even recognizable as being representative of the way we expect a team to play.

There is no sense in looking back at the Chargers game with any eye toward saying that if this had happened, or that had happened, the results would be different.

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