Is there life after losing?
Feb 2, 2015, 6:11 AM | Updated: 9:51 am
Stunned Seattle Seahawks fans watching NFL football's Super Bowl XLIX Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015, on outdoor TV screens in Seattle react during the final minutes of the fourth quarter as the New England Patriots beat the Seahawks 28-24. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
This is Dave Ross… from Seattle, where things are even gloomier than they usually are in February.
I have never seen a game of any kind turn so quickly.
I have never seen a team slip on a banana peel that close to the altar.
I wanted to grab the remote, press the 30-second backup button and just leave it there in freeze-frame – but it wasn’t my house. And they’d already switched to the Travel Channel. We watched some guy get a beer bath in Austria.
So now America wonders, ‘What becomes of Seattle? What’s left for those poor people but to drape the needle in black and go back to being a muddy logging town.’
Except, you know – I’m pretty sure the sun will come up today.
You can’t always tell, but it will.
I’m pretty sure we still have Boeing, and Microsoft, and Amazon, and Starbucks! And at least four world class billionaires to go with them!
And yes, a few loggers.
But most important, we are the wiser for what happened.
Life is like that game. Sometimes you are just within reach of that dream promotion, or the love of your life, or that IPO – and suddenly – it’s yanked away.
Do you just roll over and weep?
yes …
No!
Because we all saw that car commercial with all the old people who still feel young enough to drive a Dodge if they could just pass the eye test! We all saw the puppy make it back home because the Clydesdales were NOT going to let him die! And we all saw Katy Perry fly through the air on the NBC “The More You Know” Star.
Baby, you’re a firework, and one day, Seattle fans – if you just believe enough – you will wake up in a land where it’s OK to run the ball on second and goal.
Plus, as the Seattle Police Department tweeted:
And now we all know what it's like to be a @Broncos fan.
— Seattle Police Dept. (@SeattlePD) February 2, 2015
