Ever wake up screaming in the middle of the night?
A figure of speech, but how else do you describe seeing the same catastrophe every time you open your eyes when you wake up at night, the same thing you see over and over all day long? The same unbelievable thing?
Remember last Summer when Brazil hosted the World Cup, and Germany destroyed them? Millions of Brazilians who saw that woke up screaming in the middle of the night, and some probably still do, and always will.
Remember the Red Sox in the World Series when that ball went unconscionably rolling through Bill Buckner’s legs? The people who woke up screaming in the middle of the night remembering that will still remember that.
When the Packers lost to the Seahawks in the NFC Conference Championship, scenes from that were and are the stuff of nightmares all throughout Wisconsin and the Packers Nation.
An old friend told me about how his teeth were so rotten that once he woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of screaming– his own– because his teeth hurt so bad.
That most ill-advised pass in the last minute of the Super Bowl…. Had the football gods been asleep as Carson Palmer got hurt and the Cardinals lost the division lead, as the Seahawks rallied most improbably against the Packers and the Patriots, not waking up until the last minute of the Super Bowl, and then realized that one of the Seahawks stars had exhibited extremely poor sportsmanship against #24 on the Patriots, and a catch had been made that defied all logic, chance, or reason, and the gods sent a demon into the mind of the offensive coordinator or whoever to call an insane play that never should have been called when the perfect running back for the job was just waiting with three chances to hammer the ball in from a yard out for a winning touchdown, a demon with an ally who caused the golden boy quarterback to throw a pass that never should have been thrown?
Ever sit by yourself all night in a dark room in a rocking chair as your mind tries to wrap itself around the greatest sports catastrophe Seattle has ever seen?
Yes.
Let us never speak of this again.