“The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.”
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Was this morning’s wake up call a bit early for anyone else out there? Yet, here I am, sharing our very pretty sunrise this morning with persistence 😉 I love the little halo cloud above the sunbeams …
I was up late, enjoying an outstanding Superbowl game, and my congrats go out to the Seattle Seahawks ! Well done !!!
I only wish we could have caught more of the game, as our beloved Water & Power Authority had a melt down, and for the 3rd year in a row now, power to the entire island went out just as the opening coin toss was being thrown. It would take WAPA until midway through the 3rd quarter to fix their problem. I’d sure hate to be in their customer relations department this morning.
What I did see of the game exemplified everything Napoleon Hill says about success. Even towards the end, up 45 to 8, the Seahawks defense and offense was charging with avengence. They did not sit back on their laurels until that final horn sounded.
The story of the Seahawk’s quarterback, Russell Wilson, is a beautiful one …
The New York Time’s writes:
He came into the game as the other quarterback — the undersize and underestimated foil to the record-setting, commercial-pitching Denver Broncosstar Peyton Manning.
It took only one half of Seattle’s 43-8 win in Super Bowl XLVIII, however, for Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson to upstage Manning on the game’s biggest stage, dialing up a cooler, better-orchestrated performance.
He used his underdog status as fuel, as he has done in his football career, whether related to his size (5 feet 11 inches), his career choice (deemed better fit for baseball), his draft status (sixth quarterback selected in 2012) or his marketability (tucked away in the Pacific Northwest).
“My dad used to always tell me, ‘Russ, why not you?’ ” Wilson said. “And what that meant was believe in yourself, believe in the talent God has given you even though you are 5 foot 11, and you can go a long way.”
“I had so many people telling me I couldn’t do it,” Wilson said. “I wanted to go against the odds.”
His teammate Percy Harvin said. “I haven’t seen anybody prepare the way he prepares. There were three minutes on the clock, still ticking, and he’s still in our face telling us, ‘Stay ready.’ And we’re like, ‘Man, the game’s pretty much over.’ He just wants to be great that much.”
“I’m very competitive,” Wilson said. “I believe I could be picked before all those guys, but it wasn’t going to affect me either way. I knew that the Seattle Seahawks were going to pick me. I was going to make the 31 other teams regret it.”
“I remember my dad asking me one time, and it’s something that has always stuck with me:
“‘Why not you, Russ?’ You know, why not me”
“Why not me in the Super Bowl? And what that meant was believe in yourself, believe in the talent God has given you even though you are 5 foot 11, and you can go a long way.” So in speaking to our football team earlier in the year, I said, ‘Why not us? Why can’t we be there?'”
Wilson did not earn Super Bowl most valuable player recognition, but he outplayed the league’s M.V.P., Manning, finishing with a sparkling line: 206 yards, 2 touchdowns, 18 of 25 passing, including 11 completions in a row in the second half. Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll considered it “a perfect football game.”
This is how winners are made.
Tomorrow, we’ll continue on with Napoleon Hill’s 16 other reasons why most of fail and don’t become champions in our given field.
Wilson’s story shows that with passion, hard work, dedication and teamwork, we can overcome our obstacles and achieve miracles …
So why not you? Why not me?
