I am not really a fan of US football. But I do follow the local team sometimes out of habit. Some teams have good years and bad ones. The Washington team is "sort of" mine and they have had bad years recently.
And some teams have established rivalries over the years.
The Dallas Cowboys and the Washington team (formerly Redskins, now Commanders) have that sort of rivalry. In the last regular season game yesterday, they matched up. The Commanders had nothing to lose and the Cowboys had everything to gain by winning and the game seemed pointless for the Commanders.
I expected a massive loss for the Washington team. But you sometimes forget pride as a motivator. It is sometimes easy to think of athletes as just "paid professionals" just earning (ridiculous) salaries. But they get where they are mostly by drive and willpower and competitiveness.
And as much as some get traded around from team to team, they do seem to bond among each other wherever they are. Teams that are a group succeed. Those that are just a collection of individuals don't. And that applies the men's teams and women's teams (I love women's college basketball).
So, yesterday, with nothing to gain, the Washington Commanders beat the crap out of the Dallas Cowboys.
Hurray! 😂😅😆😊
