Getting there first

It’s funny when you talk about great athletes when they have a bad game there always seems to be a reason. We can blame it on the game itself at times.

When Felix throws a clunker like he did Friday night we use the suggestion, “Hey, that’s baseball.”

Or if Russell Wilson throws a couple of picks we might say, “The line didn’t give him enough time to throw or the receivers didn’t get open.”

It’s easy to find excuses for those athletes we admire. But there are a group of people that work hard as a team that don’t often get a chance to have a bad day because too many lives are at stake.

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