According to the inspirational tearaway calendar available at the checkout counter of your local CVS, the “little things” in your life matter. It is the accumulation of these “little things” that form the tapestry of what you may consider a life. If we show up for all the little things as if they were the very few big things, then everything achieves this pleasant gravity, this purposeful heft. Less, then, of what we do goes on a dreaded autopilot.
These are admittedly heavy thoughts and considerations for someone to make while watching Commanders kicker Joey Slye kick a game-winning field goal in front of a sparse crowd seated inside a crumbling stadium on an August Monday night a couple of weeks away from the beginning of football season. But Slye’s opponent, the Ravens, had not lost a preseason game since Barack Obama was president back in 2015. And earlier this week, a member of his own team, Sam Cosmi, called that a “stupid” record. Cosmi added, while talking to reporters: “Who gives a s---?”
Well, clearly, I do. The Commanders did when they celebrated walking off the field. And I think you should, too. This was, perhaps, the greatest preseason game in NFL history. More than that, it was a lesson in the little things.
