The title of this post comes from the movie "Galaxy Quest" (which, if you haven't seen, you should. It's absolutely hilarious, featuring Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver and Alan "Professor Snape" Rickman). Essentially, the crew in the movie never gave up despite long odds and managed to defeat their enemy.
The same is true in sports. As you know, I'm a strong advocate of never leaving a game early, even if your team is losing badly. A sportswriter I read noted that if your team is down by a lot at halftime, you have just as much time to erase that lead as the other team had to build it.
Such a remarkable turnaround took place in England recently. In a knockout tournament (not the regular English Premier League season) Jordan's favorite team, Arsenal, faced Reading, who had just been promoted to the top flight that season. Arsenal was the obvious favorite, but Reading managed to strike first. And second. And third. And, yes, fourth. All in the 1st half. When they scored to go up 4-0, the TV broadcast showed a couple of fans wearing Arsenal jerseys leaving the game in disgust. Their loss, because they missed one for the ages.
Arsenal managed to get one back to go into halftime down 4-1. In the 2nd haf, they kept chipping away and got another goal to make it 4-2. Then they scored again, making it 4-3. It took until the 5th minute of 2nd half stoppage time, but they got the equalizer to level the match at 4-4. Because this was a knockout tournament, there had to be a winner, so it went to extra time. Arsenal then scored again to make it 5-4, but Reading responded with their own equalizer. Arsenal then got another two goals in the dying moments to win 7-5.
Don't leave early. Never give up. Never surrender.
2 comments:
Wow - Amazing story and that message is a good one too.
Loved reading this Spencer - thanks.
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