literally good
at nothing but for winning
it’s ridiculous
Adapted from the line, “They’re literally good at nothing, other than winning the game,” Dan Graziano, an NFL insider, said on ESPN. “It’s ridiculous.” in the story, 17 years, zero losing seasons: Mike Tomlin’s coaching genius rumbles on by Dave Caldwell in the Guardian.
I am reminded of the baseball player/manager, Eddie Stanky about whom Leo Durocher once said:
Can’t hit.
Can’t run.
Can’t field.
He just knows how to win.
Legend has it that a Coach once said to Michael Jordan that there was no “I” in team.
Mr. Jordan replied, ‘There is in win.“
Winning.
Winning.
Winning.
Coach Lombardi is supposed to have said that ‘Winning isn’t everything … it’s the only thing.‘
Sports, politics, life itself.
Winning.
Winning.
Winning.
But off in the wings in Mr. Shakespeare.
As Big Bill put it when he has Banquo (Macbeth Act 1, Scene 3) say:
But ’tis strange.
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s
In deepest consequence.
Big Bill back in 1606 and he describes the American political theater of 2023.
‘Tis strange … and most ridiculous.
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