My 2-Minute Drill Rant. #NFL



As the world is in a tizzy today over the interception that never was to be, I ask you, what happened to the other 58 minutes of the game, and why isn’t anyone discussing what brought the Chargers, or Green Bay for that matter, to that moment?  Why is it okay to have a 2-minute drill and a Hail-Mary pass decide, and not always correctly, the end of a game?

My job is Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.  What would happen if I decided that every day I was going to come to work at 4:58 and work as hard and diligent and structured and on target as I can for two minutes – how would that work for my boss, my peers, and my family (fans)?  What if, on Friday, I waited until 4:59:55 and threw all of my ideas in at once and hoped that someone was around to pick up on it?  Sounds silly, right?

But that’s what we’re talking about today.  And by “we,” I mean everyone who’s ever heard of the concept of football.  We’re all talking about a flash of a moment in time that won a game for a team, lost a game for a team, changed the life of every gambler who had money on the game, and turned a replacement referee trying to do his best in a crazy situation that he’s obviously not ready for into a household name said in vain in one state and praised in another. Ask yourself this though, how did the teams get there in the first place and why is that okay?

I say it’s time that these teams played the full 60 minutes we’re paying them to play instead of a mere 2-minutes.

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