can’t change that, I mean …
even if I wanted to
it is what it is
The Detroit Lions played the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday Night.
The Detroit Lions had a 15 point lead with just over 2 minutes to go in the game.
The Detroit Lions had a 15 point lead with just over 2 minutes to go in the game but the other team had the ball and if there was a Lions fan who hadn’t worked how the Lions were going to give up a quick score, a 2 point conversion, an onside kick, another quick score and another 2 point conversion and lose the game, that person is not a real Lions fan.
Lets be clear.
I am not in any way trying to disparage the Lions.
I am telling you how, after 60 years of following the Lions, Lions fans could feel what was going to happen.
And …
And it didn’t.
Throughout the game, an area of concern was the amount of penalties, 12 by the whole team, 7 on cornerbacks Carlton Davis III and Terrion Arnold.
With that in mind, I really enjoyed Mr. Davis III’s explanation of what was going on during the game.
According to the article in the Detroit Free Press, Detroit Lions CB Carlton Davis III: ‘I felt as if (refs) were just on the Seahawks side’ by Dave Birkett, Mr. Davis III said:
“I lost my cool, I did. But it was rightfully so cause not about to — I just can’t control it. It’s an emotional game, and the stakes are high. They’re driving down the field and these PI’s are keeping them in the game. It’s extending these drives. So that’s where the passion is coming from. Like, come on man, let us play ball and if they can’t get open then it is what it is, you know what I mean?”
“I don’t want to get fined because they are sensitive about this, but honestly bro, I can’t say what I want to say, but honestly it’s just like I felt as if they were just on the Seahawks’ side today. I don’t know what I did. Maybe I should take them to dinner or something, I don’t know. Follow them on Instagram, I don’t know. But today was not my day. They were just calling PIs that’s like not even, I’m not even grabbing. It’s not even like, ‘Oh my gosh.’ It was just like touch-touch, bang-bang stuff, which is football, which is battling. And D.K. is a physical receiver, so that’s going to happen when you get a physical (corner) and a physical receiver, you got to let us play ball.”
“I mean that’s just who I am, bro, I can’t change that (expletive). I mean, even if I wanted to, but what the (expletive)? I’m not about to do that. I’m about to play my game, about to keep playing and it is what it is.”
Is this not fabulous?
I remember back in high school, my sister Lisa had to read the book, “The Caine Mutiny”.
I asked her if she liked it and she said she had some concerns.
She said there was this part where the sailors described what they did aboard a minesweeper and Lisa said she didn’t understand a word of what they said.
She said she read the passage over and over trying understand it all and finally gave up and moved on.
The next sentence in the book was about how one officer looked and another and said, “I didn’t understand a word of what they said.”
Lisa said she felt much better after that.
I can read the words of this interview.
And I understand that the reporter had a voice recorder running and that Mr. Davis III was answering questions just minutes after performing in a very high pressure environment.
But I am not sure I understand what he is saying … but there is that one word there.
Passion.
Again, is this not fabulous?
So that’s where the passion is coming from.
I’m about to play my game.
I’m about to keep playing.
It is what it is.
Go Lions!
Just for fun, click here for another video of a Carlton Davis III interview.
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