The elimination of pro teams, week by week, came down to one from Pennsylvania and another out of the cheese country of Wisconsin. They won, on a very cold day, the privilege to visit Dallas and the incredible stadium there.
It is hard to get excited about rooting for either team. There are memories of defeats that still linger in Cowboy minds. There are also remembrances of great quarterbacks like Terry Bradshaw and Bart Starr. Neither team Sunday played it's best for the entire game.
Football is so much like life. Few of us do our best all the time. We fumble and get intercepted at the worst possible times. We sometimes do our end zone antics as if no one else helped us get there. We get called and penalized when it really wasn't all our fault. We lose our footing and go down hard when we could have scored. We want the game ball instead of throwing it back to the referee. There is always someone better out there to face us in what we do.
The Apostle Paul gave sage advice to all who take the field in the game of life. "Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize.......of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." (Phil. 3:13-14)
There you have it. A winning game plan for Believers.
