We Won!!!
We won!! App won!! Second round, here we come!!!
So today, we had what I gave up my Thanksgiving Break for. Our first playoff game in quite awhile. Our opponent was Lafayette University out of Pennsylvania, and we were picked to stomp all over them. Going into the game, many fans were joking at how bad we were going to beat them. Boy, were we wrong.
They put up a fight! That team came to win, whereas our team came just not to lose. They wanted it bad, and by the end of the first half the score showed it, with them in the lead. Coach Moore must have given one heck of a chewing out during halftime because the second half belonged to us. However, we didn't really kick things into gear until the end of the third quarter.
In the end we just barely pulled it out with a victory over the LU leopards. After the game, I of course got to thinking, why we had just scraped by defeating a team we were supposed to slaughter.
I eventually came to the conclusion that it was confidence. We came in quite overconfident. Now, mind you, I believe that a certain amount of confidence is needed to succeed in anything, but when that confidence turns into perhaps cockiness...one best watch out. So in a football game, I found a lesson for all of us. Be confident in yourself and your abilities, but never take anyone or anything for granted. Because at the end of the day, a cocky rooster might be crowing in the morning, but he may end up on the dinner table by that evening.
"Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky."
~ Ann Landers
So today, we had what I gave up my Thanksgiving Break for. Our first playoff game in quite awhile. Our opponent was Lafayette University out of Pennsylvania, and we were picked to stomp all over them. Going into the game, many fans were joking at how bad we were going to beat them. Boy, were we wrong.
They put up a fight! That team came to win, whereas our team came just not to lose. They wanted it bad, and by the end of the first half the score showed it, with them in the lead. Coach Moore must have given one heck of a chewing out during halftime because the second half belonged to us. However, we didn't really kick things into gear until the end of the third quarter.
In the end we just barely pulled it out with a victory over the LU leopards. After the game, I of course got to thinking, why we had just scraped by defeating a team we were supposed to slaughter.
I eventually came to the conclusion that it was confidence. We came in quite overconfident. Now, mind you, I believe that a certain amount of confidence is needed to succeed in anything, but when that confidence turns into perhaps cockiness...one best watch out. So in a football game, I found a lesson for all of us. Be confident in yourself and your abilities, but never take anyone or anything for granted. Because at the end of the day, a cocky rooster might be crowing in the morning, but he may end up on the dinner table by that evening.
"Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky."
~ Ann Landers
posted by Jeffrey Lazenby | 9:08 PM
1 Comments:
I agree about being cocky. My high school football team made it to 3rd round playoffs...first time in 30 years! With 3 minutes on the clock, they scored a touchdown putting them ahead. Then they became lack-a-dasical thinking they had it won...well, they forgot that the game isn't over until the clock hits zero. The other team threw a 90 yard rush and won by 4 points the last 30 seconds of the game. Cockiness gets you no where...
~Tiffany
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