Game on…

So, my day started yesterday with a picture memory of me at my most fit…let’s just say it ignited something in me …so I thought.

Monday Night Football…my Jets were playing. It’s crazy hot and humid…I stood looking at a closet filled with Jets apparel and most of my hot weather options would have had me looking like a Premio sausage. 🤣  Luckily I had a Revis shirt that fit comfortably.

Got a few minutes of cuddling and giggles from my grand babies before my son and I headed to the Jets game.

My expectations were contained. I was hopeful, but not overconfident, that this could be an amazing year for us, filled with potential. 

The skies opened up as we were driving to the stadium and there was torrential rain, lightning and thunder.  Things were looking very ominous. When we arrived, it was a light drizzle and then this amazing rainbow appeared…I took it as a good sign.

Got to the tailgate and ate some mac n cheese and a brownie even though I wasn’t hungry. I had eaten dinner before I went to the game. Not hungry, but I ate it anyway…there’s the “so I thought”.

Got inside the stadium and it was electric…literally and figuratively.  They gave us all these LED bracelets that lit up to the music 🎶.  It was spectacular.

The Star Bangled Banner being sung by the whole crowd, first responders on the field, poignant but beautiful.

Then it was game time…and off we go. A new real QB, some amazing young talent, and veteran players who want to play here. 

This was going to be awesome. And it was for almost 4 minutes. And then the stadium went silent, our hopes dashed as Aaron Rodgers is helped off the field, then later the cart comes out UGH…vacillating between it’s over and just maybe. I found myself consuming cookies to combat the stress rising through my body…

All eyes on Zach…is he the same or has he grown? I find myself talking to him as if he could hear me. Don’t do anything crazy, take your time, have patience. Little by little, one play,  one drive at a time and somehow, my Jets, the little engine that sometimes could, did it. In spectacular fashion I might add. In overtime, after holding the Bills, a punt return for a touchdown by an undrafted rookie – are you kidding me? I lost my mind along with everyone else in the joint.

Yesterday morning when I looked at the picture of myself my mind went to I want to get back there fast…but the truth is, it will take time to reach that place. I must be patient, persistent and consistent.

When it comes to health, a trick play doesn’t work, an explosive play doesn’t work and a Hail Mary certainly does not work. You must chip away at the clock and move methodically towards the end result. The whistle just blew, the game starts now…