The David Maraniss article “Winning actually isn't the only
thing” was about the Monday Night Football game where the Seahawks beat the
Packers due to a bad call made by replacement officials. While much of the
article talked about the many people whose mistakes led to his team losing, the
argument he made is that the Seahawk’s coach, Pete Carroll, and the Quarterback,
Russell Wilson, should not have acted as if they had won the game fairly.
According to him, they clearly should have lost and the fact that they
pretended that they had deserved a victory showed bad sportsmanship.
I do
agree with the argument made in the article. I saw the game and it was very
clear that the packers should have won. Like Maraniss, I was disappointed that
members of the Seahawks pretended that they deserved to win. They had to have
known that the call was bad. I know it is probably too much to ask these days for
someone to acknowledge that they should have lost, but it would have been the
right thing for them to do and they know that.
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20120926/SPORTS/709269933/1004
I agree with you completly that I cant believe how the seahawks acted after they clearly lost the game but when referees who cant barely find a job in the lower leagues are reffing the professional athletes is unbelieveable.
ReplyDeleteThink about it this way though, pretty much the whole world new what a bad call the refs made. Heck, I pretty much live under a rock when it comes to sports and I knew that there was a bad call at that game because it was all over my Facebook in peoples angry statuses. So since just about everyone heard about it I think we can all say that the majority of people agree that it was a rediculous call and how the Seahawks reacted to this call is a reflection of them and I think it is possible that a lot more people are looking down on the team because of how they acted.
ReplyDeleteYour description of the game was good and it was very clear what you were trying to say. I liked how you gave Maraniss's opinion first and then your own.
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