Sack
Esses dias eu estava lendo a Sports Illustrated - nao podia faltar essa assinatura na casa onde eu moro neh, mas nao eh minha nao eh do Scott - e uma reportagem me chamou a atencao.
Era uma enquete feita entre os quarterbacks da NFL. (American Football 101 - quarterback: eh o jogador responsavel por executar as jogadas, por a bola nas maos dos receivers que sao os carinhas que geralmente marcam os pontos - Touchdowns!) Entao ... a enquete tratava dos sacks, ou seja, quando os quarterbacks sao impedidos de completar uma jogada porque um cara - de no minimo uns 150 quilos - consegue chegar neles antes de que algo aconteca...
Pelo peso da pessoa voce ja pode ter uma ideia de quao agradavel deve ser tomar um sack; ainda tem o detalhe de que depois que um "pega" vem mais uma galera se jogar em cima pra garantir que a bola nao va a lugar nenhum... Nao sei se me fiz entender bem, mas a imagem de um "montinho peso pesado" acho que resume a situacao. So, what the hell is your point?!?
A questao toda da enquete girava em torno de que se o sack eh inevitavel, qual deles seria o "menos pior"? O que eles tem tempo de ver acontecer e podem se preparar ou aqueles que nao se sabe de onde veio e quando se ve ja se esta no chao???
Dentre muitas respostas interessantes duas em particular me fizeram pensar.
Um deles dizia que prefiria o sack que da tempo de "ver" e que assim nao era tao dolorido porque literalmente havia tempo pra se encolher ao maximo, se proteger e nao perder a posse de bola...
Outro dizia que os sacks que voce ve que vao acontecer sao bem mais doloridos, porque vendo o jogador de defesa "crescer" pra cima de voce faz com a tensao acumulada no corpo colabore pra queda ser ainda pior. Resumindo, ele preferia nem ver, tomar na cabeca, cair com tudo e depois da galera "sair de cima" levantar, sacudir a cabeca e tentar continuar jogando.
Independente de ver ou nao de onde vem e de nunca ter jogado football na vida posso afirmar que um sack doi, e que ja assisti jogos em que o cara levanta chamando "urubu de meu loro" ou "Jesus de Genesio" como voce preferir... De novo, qual eh o meu objetivo com isso???
Primeiro que eu adoro football e posso passar horas falando disso ou de qualquer outro esporte so por falar, sem objetivo nenhum... He he he , calma que eu tenho um plano!!!
Segundo que, se a vida fosse um jogo meu amigo, pra te explicar o que aconteceu comigo nas ultimas semanas eu te diria que tomei um sack, um major sack, pai de todos ... e nao tive tempo (ou percepcao) pra ver de onde veio...
Eh por isso que o Magnolia andava meio abandonado, ainda to sacundindo a poeira, recuperando os sentidos, analisando o erro (se eh que existiu um) e trabalhando pra voltar pro jogo...
Interessante como coisas assim quando acontecem com a gente nos fazem duvidar de tudo, duvidar das nossas capacidades, duvidar do futuro, duvidar do presente, duvidar das coisas que ate entao nos pareceram tao certas. E a gente se sente pequeno, pequeno.
Nao estou reclamando nao, so constatando. As vezes eh bom sentar e para pra pensar, rever valores, questionar verdades - e assim, de se sentir pequeno a gente cresce, mas doi ... diz a lenda que vale a pena.
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Trilha sonora de hoje: Ironic by Alanis Morissette - porque a vida as vezes pode ser resumida nesse adjetivo.
An old man turned ninety-eight
He won the lottery and died the next day
It's a black fly in your Chardonnay
It's a death row pardon two minutes too late
Isn't it ironic... don't you think?
It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures
Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
And as the plane crashed down he thought
"Well isn't this nice..."
And isn't it ironic... don't you think?
It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures
Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
When you think everything's okay and everything's going right
And life has a funny way of helping you out when
You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up
In your face
A traffic jam when you're already late
A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
It's meeting the man of my dreams
And then meeting his beautiful wife
And isn't it ironic... don't you think?
A little too ironic... and yeah I really do think...
It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures
Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
Life has a funny, funny way of helping you out
Helping you out
He won the lottery and died the next day
It's a black fly in your Chardonnay
It's a death row pardon two minutes too late
Isn't it ironic... don't you think?
It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures
Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
And as the plane crashed down he thought
"Well isn't this nice..."
And isn't it ironic... don't you think?
It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures
Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
When you think everything's okay and everything's going right
And life has a funny way of helping you out when
You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up
In your face
A traffic jam when you're already late
A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
It's meeting the man of my dreams
And then meeting his beautiful wife
And isn't it ironic... don't you think?
A little too ironic... and yeah I really do think...
It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures
Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
Life has a funny, funny way of helping you out
Helping you out
