The college football season kicked off today. If you are a fan of footbalee, you know today there was wall to wall coverage of games. ESPN started at 9:00 this morning covering every angle of the what they deemed the most important games. They analyzed, scrutinized and predicted the outcome of every game. While watching some of the pregame show this morning, I could not help but think of all the effort that goes into covering a game.
As I watched a game (the Florida Gators, in case you are curious), I listened at halftime to the analysis and the advice the experts gave. They spoke of what the teams needed to do and what they needed to stop doing if they were going to come out the winner today.
Then this thought hit me; there was a lot of time, effort, money and resources spent to cover the games, yet the outcome would be determined by young men who ranged in age of 18-23.
Last night I watched the movie Saving Private Ryan and I thought about what those young men were going through as they stormed the beach at Normandy and I realized once again the outcome of that war was in the hands of young men, most of them between the ages 18-26. Kind of puts things in perspective does it not?
So I have been thinking as the new football season begins, I hope I can keep things in perspective as I watch the games, and remember the fumbles, the turnovers, the victories and the losses are just part of the game. You see I want to be a fan of the game, but there is a danger of following our teams so closely we become fanatical. And there are only a few things in this life worth being a fanatic about; I think you know what they are, But if not sure, let me encourage you to check out this passage.
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