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Embrace Greatness

Unfortunately for us Brett Favre fans we don’t get to see Favre add to his legacy by having a chance at beating the only team ever to reach 18 consecutive wins in a single season. In my opinion, the Packers/Patriots playing in Super Bowl XLII would be a better match-up, but one that we will never see.

We’ve seen some great team and individual performance this season; rookies breaking single-game records, veterans adding to their legacies, franchises and individual season performances dominating the stat sheets, and history about to be made. With this Super Bowl match-up between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots, I feel somewhat cheated this season. Does it have to end in a blowout like the one that’s about to happen on February 3, 2008?

Don’t get me wrong the Giants are playing fantastic football and have for the past several weeks, however, this is a no-contest as Belichick and his record-setting Patriots gear up for their 19th consecutive win and their fourth Lombardi trophy in the last seven years. Could you ask for a better storyline? History in the making!

New England fans and fans in general should be excited as we all have the opportunity to witness a perfect season and an unprecedented 19 wins. Why the resistance? We should all embrace change and never be too quick to reject greatness. Our parents were fortunate enough to witness greatness with the ‘72′ Dolphins and their perfect season, Hank Aaron break Babe Ruth’s Home Run record, and Wilt Chamberlain score 100 points in a single game. So why the resistance this day and age when athletes show greatness and franchises from top to bottom show dominance? Has the media and their negative press corrupted sports so much so that it continues to give games and franchises a black eye? We may never again have the opportunity in our lifetime to enjoy, appreciate, and embrace the soon to be perfect season of the 2007-2008 New England Patriots. Enjoy it!