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Gosh!! It's taken me a couple days to recover from the "Big Game" on Sunday. I'm a Colt's fan unless they're playing the Cowboys...gotta have an AFC and an NFC team. As the game played out, a few things stuck out:
- "Always" and "Never" are really bad words in any context.
- Every time the announcers quoted a statistic, one of the people I was watching the game with would say "There's another useless statistic." She was right. What counts is what's happening today.
- "Peyton can't win the big game." reminds me of Benjamin Graham's analogy of Mr. Market. Mr. Market is completely irrational. In sports, he'd be what you'd call a bandwagon fan. Ask Peyton. He's already looking forward to the first game of the next preseason. If you know the underlying value of what you have, it makes it much easier to ride out the bumps in the road.
- Hindsight is overrated: It'd be easy to look back on the game and narrow the outcome down to 3 key plays: Reggie Wayne's dropped pass, Peyton's interception, or the Saints' onside kick to start the second half. Every fan goes through this when their team loses. If only a few key plays had gone the other way!...but they didn't. This is like looking at the market in the rear view mirror...coulda', shoulda', woulda'. What counts is what you do next.
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