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*'At the end of the day, you're all gonna die' -Wh - .simo - 04-30-2020 A little bit back we had a Rams Patriots Super Bowl. This game did not really go the way the Rams wanted and in the end lost after a disastrous performance in front of the god and man. After the match Andrew Whitworth, the left tackle for the Rams, had a quote (headline) that makes the Super Bowl, and indeed all sport, feel just a little unimportant and I've been thinking on this ever since and has me pondering a question. How do you reconcile the essential meaninglessness of sport? I have been thinking through this for a little bit now. In the end nothing really matters does it. Wining a championship won't bring world peace, it won't end hunger it won't even solve any problems at the city that wins it. Success feels amazing and winning is great at the time but a lot more of sport is losing than winning. Only one team wins every year and that could be out of 8, 12 or 36 teams. I think sport has to be more than about W's and L's. I think we need to cherish the moments sport gives us and the friends we make along the way. Individual moments making memories you will have and cherish forever. Your team scoring a walk off touchdown. Even in a week 5 game in some pouring rain just above freezing with 5 people watching, that is still a fair dinkum moment to be apart of and one you would hold forever. You have some reserve grade bloody zamboni driver filling in at goalie and saving you a win. Damn that would have been a fun team to be apart of and make that memory together. Those are the moments we should hold on to. Some of these moments can also come in a loss, winning doesn't have a monopoly on good memories. When I was back in Australia and playing Aussie Rules Football at a local level there was an away game we had. Travelled a few hours on a but and got absolutely toweled up by them. In this game though we had a young kid play his first game of A grade and kicked his first goal. It was such an awesome moment to get around him then even though we ended up losing 163-17. That's a moment he will have forever. The real magic isn't winning a championship. It's the friends and memories we make along the way. *'At the end of the day, you're all gonna die' -Wh - morsy - 05-01-2020 As a very smart dog once said: