Sometimes it comes down to talent, sometimes it comes down to skill, sometimes it comes down to momentum, coaching, pregame speeches, fights.
And sometimes it comes down to a bounce.
Here was Tomas Sandstrom, in overtime, simply looking to clear the puck, and on the move he flicked it high into the air.
Here were Slava Kozlov and Igor Larionov, skating down center ice, watching Sandtrom’s offering come out of the lights.
Oh, Curt. You sad, misguided soul. How can you pick the Green Bay Packers to win this Super Bowl when everyone knows the Patriots are a lock?
(Ed. note: Mitch Albom is lying through his teeth. He does not believe the Patriots will win.)
The Patriots are the superior team, Curt. They have a better running game and a coach who can win the Big One. What’s the matter? Can’t your 114-year-old eyes see that?
(Ed. note: Never mind the age jokes. Only a fool would believe what Albom is saying.)
NEW ORLEANS — Drew Bledsoe is not ready to win a Super Bowl. That is just my opinion, and I could be wrong, but after watching him here all week, my lasting impression is that of deer being dragged by a chain. He seems overwhelmed, itchy, at times almost frightened.
NEW ORLEANS — He pinches a wad of tobacco into his mouth, looks at the crowd from behind blue sunglasses, then spits carefully over the edge of a paper cup, the brown drool falling as slowly and deliberately as his act, which has always been angry. Jim McMahon coughs and reaches around to scratch the back of his gray T-shirt, and he looks as if he might belch when someone asks him for the umpteenth time to compare this Super Bowl with his other one.
“They’re about the same,” he drones in a sort of Southernish accent, ”
‘cept this time I’m not starting.”
You wouldn’t say “My family is sick and dying, but my life is good.”
You wouldn’t say “Everyone at work is in danger, but my life is swell.”
So I’m confused by the latest nationwide poll in which most Americans say they are happy with their lives, even though the country is in trouble.
Hello? This is like saying “My car is about to go off that cliff, but no worries, I’m wearing my seat belt.”
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