Seize the day. A phrase that is meant to move the listener to take action, capture what’s in their grasp. Words intended to motivate the audience to secure the desired outcome of a given opportunity.
Over the course of history, countless people have squandered those chances, letting windows of time close right before their eyes, leaving them looking painfully through the bars covering what could have been. Countries, politicians, religious figures, athletes, and commoners like you and me, all eventually thinking about where the different road would have taken them had they turned a prospect into a reality.
In sports, it happens nearly every career, every season, every game, every play, every step. This weekend kicker Billy Cundiff of the Baltimore Ravens saw that chance present itself when he was called into kick a 32 yard field goal to send his team into overtime, giving them another chance to see a Super Bowl with eventual Hall of Famers Ray Rice and Ed Reed. Kickers make their career on kicks like this. Adam Vinatieri, famous for his game winning kicks. Cundiff squandered the opportunity and will be infamous.
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January 23, 2012
