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. Personally, I am not sure what I would have
done in the position of Russell Wilson. I know admitting defeat is hard. Still,
I know it would be the right thing, no matter what happened as a result.
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