Icing is really good on a cake or Christmas cookie. It is delicious in the mixing bowl when one has a shot at dipping a finger in. It is not so good when a sheet of it covers a roadway being traveled. It is slick and very dangerous.Brakes are of little use.
Icing can also be a hazard on the football field. It doesn't have to be in Green Bay. It can be dangerous in Dallas. Such has been the case the last two weeks in almost unbelievable losses the Cowboys have experienced. Icing refers to the rather dubious approach in a game to call time-out just as a kicker is going through the motions of a field goal. It happened first by the inadverdent action of the Cowboy's own coach. Sunday night it was the New York Giants coach who "iced" poor rookie kicker, Dan Bailey. This guy has been great. He is now a candidate for a state home somewhere. The kicks made and then missed were not easy ones. We must remember that. Bottom line was that he made the first one that didn't count, and missed the one that did. They refer to it as icing the kicker.
Have you ever been iced? I have terrible remembrances of events where I did great in rehearsal and "blew it" in the performance that counted. I have had it happen in the pulpit more than once, thinking I had a sermon that would electrify the listeners. I ended up the one being shocked.
Icing, Dan Bailey, is just as part of this roadway of life. Spread some salt out there and go on living and kicking, or whatever. Same to you, dear reader. Remember too that "icing you" is something others seek to do at times in life. Don't let it get you off your goal.
