2017 Sunday Week 3 Game Ball
Yesterday, was well to
say the least interesting. From what President Trump said about the players of
the NFL, and would continue to say throughout the day when players, coaches,
and owners linked arms and kneeled for the National Anthem. What was also interesting
and seemingly took over the narrative of Week 3 of 2017 was the way that the
players, coaches, owners, and teams as a whole responded to such comments. There are too many great and powerful quotes
to repeat in this column, but the response from the players just kept getting
more and more powerful as the games went along.
Week 3 also served as the
ground breaking for sports and politics being intertwined until at least Donald
Trump exists the office of President of the United States. However, maybe the
best thing of all was not the sound bites about what happened at a rally in
Alabama the Friday before, nor the examples of league wide unity, but the
escapism that this great game can give us. You see, what the President or any
non-sports does not understand when the want fans of the NFL or any sport to
boycott is how the game makes fans feel. What a great game can do for people
going through a tough time, or wanting to escape the harsh reality that we
leave in; including politics, it always you to forget for a while. You don’t
have to think about what is going on in the world for 3+ hours at a time,
instead you worry about how your team will pick up this 3rd down, or
what the play will be coming out of a timeout to get your favorite player open
for the game-winning shot, or how your bullpen will fair against the middle of
the order in a one run game.
You cannot put a value on
that, no amount of money, period. That escapism is something that you cannot
boycott or shy away from. You cannot fire a work force that makes the most
money as a whole franchise in all of sports. If you wanted to attack a sport, don’t
attack football. Sports fans think Roger Goodell is an unstoppable force, try
stopping everyone associated with football.
Getting into the actual
games that were as a collection, the best in recent memory. If President Trump’s
comments didn’t happen and it was just a regular week of football, it would’ve
been a fantastic week of football. From the Lions almost win (that should’ve
been a win), Tom Brady’s first 40-year-old comeback, to “Mr. Free Play” Aaron
Rodgers willing the Packers back into the game in the Heat Bowl in Green Bay,
topped all off with the great performance by Chris Thompson. To me that is a
great football week, it’s going to be tough to beat that week, but I hope it
gets better.
The game that I didn’t
mention was the Giants-Eagles game that was a rough game to watch before the 4th
quarter. The 4th quarter saw Odell Beckham Jr. “act like a dog” and
make one of the best catches of the season. You saw a glimpse of what the
Giants could be when they came back down 14 and scoring 21 un-answered points. The
championship style defense acted like it in the 4th quarter, and the
Eagles put on a show in their home opener. It also showcases my game ball winner
for Sunday Week 3. It goes to the Philly kicker Jake Elliott. Elliott accounted
for 9 of the 27 points that the Eagles scored on Sunday. He was 3 of 3 on extra
points and hit a game-winning 61-yard field goal as time expired. Elliott, the
Eagles, and Philly fans alike went absolutely insane. You also got to see
Elliott’s parents have an emotional moment that is top ten this decade, it also
saw a picture of Elliott being carried off the field in Philadelphia like the
end of Rudy. Great week of football, and
hears to many more.
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