Ravens take on Broncos today at 1 PM. I don't know much about football, other than being a big fan and supporting my team. I do know alot about life and it seems that the two cannot be easily separated. It seems to me that the one glaring problem with our team is the quarterback position. However, unlike others who are calling for Kyle Bollers immediate removal, and replacement, I disagree. It seems that with any great organization, player or even business, you get the best raw materials you can find and mold them. This is where coaching and expertise both on AND off the field come in. I see great things with Boller. I see potential. This potential thing has become a dirty word in a society centered upon immediate gratification.
To some, potential means nothing more than "not there yet." So we usually give up to find the shinier diamond, the more accessible and flashy button to press, so that we get what we want now. No need to wait in these days and times. But, for those who do wait, the payoff is sometimes tremendous. Would another SuperBowl title be enough? Priobably not, because there is always next year. And the best is never enough.
What is interesting though, and more important to me is how we see the dichotemy between potential and patience and frustration and impulse. It is not a sports-specific phenomenom. It is real life, played out everyday in our cities, our school,s on Capitol Hill and in our bedrooms. I say we sow the seeds of the future, and do what so few of us ever are really able to do:
Watch potential slowly recede into the beautiful facade of present-day results. It takes patience though, and this is not readily found in sports. Then again, when so many so-called experts regale us with their sports as life analogies, isnt it time that one of these lessons proved as valuable off the field as on?
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