Response to Maraniss Essay

What Maraniss is saying is that while winning might be important; it’s not the only thing in football. He makes a couple good points to back this up. He brings up Packers legendary coach Vince Lombardi, who didn’t believe that winning was the only thing. While Maraniss didn’t agree with the Monday night football call, like probably everyone else with a working set of eyes, he knows that nothing can be done to change that. He basically called out Seattle’s head coach Pete Carroll and quarterback Russell Wilson to come out and say that what happened in that Monday night game was a joke and that instead of taking a win that they didn’t earn, they should at least be honest with everyone and with themselves that they shouldn’t have won that game.

                I agree with Maraniss one hundred percent. I watched the Monday night game and how bad the refs were not just at the end of the game but throughout the game as a whole. The replacement refs were terrible for the three weeks before this game, so for Rodger Goodell to let this happen is a disgrace to what the NFL stands for. As for Carroll and Wilson, I think they both knew that it was a terrible call but didn’t want to admit it because they got too caught up in the game and just wanted to win. I think that they should come forward and admit that it was a bad call and that they really shouldn’t have one the game that’s what good sportsmanship is all about.