Winning Actually Isn't the Only Thing

Winning Actually Isn't the Only Thing
By: David Maraniss

In the short writing, “Winning Actually Isn’t the Only Thing” by David Maraniss, I feel that David Maraniss’s argument is that the Seattle Seahawks didn’t handle themselves with class after Monday night’s Packer game and that winning shouldn’t be everything. He argues that winning shouldn’t be everything because he feels that being honest and respectable as a man is more important as a human being. He argues his point by explaining how the Seahawks know the call on the field was wrong and that they shouldn’t be happy because they didn’t actually win the game and they should be real men and realize they didn’t instead of act like children and run around the field like they had just won the Super Bowl.

I one hundred percent agree with David Maraniss. After I saw the one referee with zero experience besides 4 years of high school football make the call of a touchdown and seeing all of the Seahawks running on the field with their helmets off like they have just won the Super Bowl, especially coach Pete Carroll, I lost all respect for them as men. I know it was a big moment of the game, but I would think mature men like the players in the National Football League are would react a little more professional than the Seahawks did. Winning should not be everything if it comes down to acting like the Seahawks did. I feel the Packers should have received more recognition for how professionally they reacted after they just had a game literally stolen from them by the referees. It just shows that to the Packers winning is not everything, but that playing with class is.

 

A picture from last Monday's Packers vs. Seahawks game from Google Images