I've come to enjoy sharing some perspective on Sunday mornings and today is no different. I'm borrowing the subject line of an email I get because it seems really appropriate this weekend.
I'm mad today because on what is supposed to be a day filled with fun and tailgating it was instead overshadowed by a horrible incident in Stillwater where three people and a two-year old toddler were killed due to a woman driving under the influence. I simply cannot imagine the scene there and those who are hurting this morning from losing loved ones in the blink of an eye and those who will live with the scenes of what happened for a very long time. Let's all be prayerful for them today as they try to work through this tragedy.
I'm sad that the season is half way over but even more sad that Rawleigh got hurt. As a parent, the last thing we want is for a child to get hurt, let alone hurt badly. I really hope it isn't much. If it is, I'll be sharing in those parents frustrations and aches as their child gets better. It seems we've had so, so many get hurt this year that it's made things hard for us as a team to find our stride. That makes me sad too since that keeps us from having what could have been an even better year, perhaps.
I'm glad that I got to read tweets after the game from the presser with Gus where they ended with the following:
"Give Arkansas credit"
I'm even more glad that while I was in the final throws of a wonderful fall day with my family as we drove to go pick apples (a tradition for us here in VA) that my wife found the game online and we listened to the ending. I stayed in the car and listened to the very end as they needed to get some apples but when it was done and we had won, I got out of the car and let out a "Wooo Pig" with some odd looks and unsure city folks who likely thought I just got there from the hills. Oh, little do they know.
I'm even more glad I got to listen, and later see, Brandon Allen pull the team to a victory that we all wanted, many hoped he would do, and even some knew he could. He laced a rope to Sprinkle to get our have to have 2-point conversion and then, with the grit of Drew Morgan, put us ahead for good.
My gladness didn't stop there as Liddell and team held Auburn and dug down deep when we all thought this game was going to go all Ole Miss and be a 7-OT or more wacky game.
The video I posted was the icing on the gladness cake as a dad and son got to celebrate the big win, maybe THE win of BA's career, on the field after the game. When some parents earlier in the day were likely trying to get their breath as they watch their son be loaded on to a stretcher with a neck brace, this was a much better scene that we all want them to have at the end of a game like that.
One game does not a season make but it will make this season memorable in a way we will all enjoy. One game may be a turning point for us and for others but hopefully in ways that don't result in life long impairments (RWIII) but rather result in great playmaking and confidence (BA and the rest of the team).
Only time will tell. But overall, it was a good day.
I'm mad today because on what is supposed to be a day filled with fun and tailgating it was instead overshadowed by a horrible incident in Stillwater where three people and a two-year old toddler were killed due to a woman driving under the influence. I simply cannot imagine the scene there and those who are hurting this morning from losing loved ones in the blink of an eye and those who will live with the scenes of what happened for a very long time. Let's all be prayerful for them today as they try to work through this tragedy.
I'm sad that the season is half way over but even more sad that Rawleigh got hurt. As a parent, the last thing we want is for a child to get hurt, let alone hurt badly. I really hope it isn't much. If it is, I'll be sharing in those parents frustrations and aches as their child gets better. It seems we've had so, so many get hurt this year that it's made things hard for us as a team to find our stride. That makes me sad too since that keeps us from having what could have been an even better year, perhaps.
I'm glad that I got to read tweets after the game from the presser with Gus where they ended with the following:
"Give Arkansas credit"
I'm even more glad that while I was in the final throws of a wonderful fall day with my family as we drove to go pick apples (a tradition for us here in VA) that my wife found the game online and we listened to the ending. I stayed in the car and listened to the very end as they needed to get some apples but when it was done and we had won, I got out of the car and let out a "Wooo Pig" with some odd looks and unsure city folks who likely thought I just got there from the hills. Oh, little do they know.
I'm even more glad I got to listen, and later see, Brandon Allen pull the team to a victory that we all wanted, many hoped he would do, and even some knew he could. He laced a rope to Sprinkle to get our have to have 2-point conversion and then, with the grit of Drew Morgan, put us ahead for good.
My gladness didn't stop there as Liddell and team held Auburn and dug down deep when we all thought this game was going to go all Ole Miss and be a 7-OT or more wacky game.
The video I posted was the icing on the gladness cake as a dad and son got to celebrate the big win, maybe THE win of BA's career, on the field after the game. When some parents earlier in the day were likely trying to get their breath as they watch their son be loaded on to a stretcher with a neck brace, this was a much better scene that we all want them to have at the end of a game like that.
One game does not a season make but it will make this season memorable in a way we will all enjoy. One game may be a turning point for us and for others but hopefully in ways that don't result in life long impairments (RWIII) but rather result in great playmaking and confidence (BA and the rest of the team).
Only time will tell. But overall, it was a good day.
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