The Center Of Anything

I have to chuckle a little about what I have heard today in the media, and especially on social media about the state of the Browns win yesterday.  Yeah, it was ugly but who cares in the NFL. A win is a win. The sentiment is that it wasn't good enough - and that's laughable.

Twitter and Facebook guy and gal, and Sports Radio guy and gal are all up in arms about how the Browns won the game. And as they bloviated aimlessly, I too thought of the reason why the spanking of the Steelers seems like such a long time ago to them. (Only 2 weeks).  That day was emotion, meeting execution.

Then the Browns stumbled the next week and lost to a defeated team. And this week wrestled badly with  team that is still winless thanks to the Browns.  And it all comes down to a simple broken leg.  Alex Mack, - the Browns All-Pro Center -  that never missed a play, or a snap for many years for the Browns is out for the season. And the Browns need to find another way to run, and to move the ball, because the guy who touches the ball on every single play is out.  He is the best center in the NFL - period.   C'mon!! a Center? 

Think about this.  The center of everything is the most important part of anything.  Ever had a blown out lower back?  I have.  Do you know what yo can do? - Nothing.  Go ahead, try to get out of a chair.  When your car has a problem, and it's something deep inside the center of the engine, big problems.  Where are the lug nuts on a tire? Where does the food sit on the table? Where is the front door on your house?  Where are the lines on a highway?  And where do you get your balance?  All from the center.

What would have happened to those Indians teams of the 1990's if shortstop Omar Visquel was out for the year?  Would they have been the same?  Or Lebron with the Cavs?  The people or things in the middle of anything are the most important cogs in any machine. (Guess where the cogs are?)  And when something in the center of anything is lost or damaged a new way must be found to steady yourself, and get you back to center.  Especially when have the best of something, like the Browns do in Mack

Even though those unknown, unnoticed and unheralded pieces in the center of anything are taken for granted, you sure do notice when they are missing, or broken.  That's life though, sometimes things hurt in the middle and we have to find a way to bounce back.  You've had your turn I'm sure a time or two, as have I.  And somehow we are still here, and sometimes better than ever when we solve the center issue.  In life, or on the field.

Now, like you, it's he Browns turn.  They will have to find a way with a bit more imagination, and a continued, and even more fierce heart.  

Oh yeah, guess where that is?