The American Greed

In the article, Winning actually isn't the only thing, David Maraniss was pretty much angered exactly what the title states: Winning actually isn't the only thing. This whole notion is of winning is like a plague on our society. We all think that if we don’t win were not doing anything right. He focused his anger on football. Now, Football is a common activity for most American families to pop on their television and watch their home team in a physical battle for bragging rights.  We all have watched at least one game in our lives and we can all say that we can get a little into the whole atmosphere of the match. We feel our week is satisfied if the team wins, but really win or lose there is no point of this weekly endeavor of watching sponsors and high paid athletes battle it out if the game is bad. There is no good in going out to do something just for the sake of winning. Doing things fair and at the best of your abilities is what all of us should strive to do. We should not wake up everyday and go out to win in everything we do. All of us need to set up goals and work at our best abilities and hope something good comes out with all the hard work. He was especially angered by last week’s game and yes the call was very apparently skewed. However, that should not be the focus of all the Packer’s fans. The Packer’s fans should be more upset about the whole 4 quarters before that play. If both teams played bad all game and ends in a controversial call, both teams should really start focusing on their game plans and start to realize that one play should not affect the outcome of the game. If they both played amazing and it ended in a last amazing play then of course there is merit for being angered, but clearly this was not the case.

            The article by David Maraniss was describing American greed and the lust for being on top. The whole phrase “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing,” is completely ridiculous in itself. Think of what this phrase is doing to the youth. Growing up in a society where your value is determined on being on top for everything you do. This is why we get over aggressive people who get fired up watching games and crying when their hometown loses. To an extent I follow this stigma too. I love my bears and cant wait to watch them crush an opponent, but when they do bad and win I am unsatisfied, because the whole reason you watch football is to see a good game not to just see them win. Winning is a plus on top of your hard work. People should strive to be the best person to their abilities, because they want to be. We have to start veering away form this whole notion of win or die and start doing things with quality and for ourselves. I agree with David Maraniss in the sense that we as a culture need to be more relaxed and start focusing on the good of actions we are doing. We should be satisfied when we accomplish solid goals and do things well in life and not just when someone tells us we won. Focus on the real things in life such as personal statisfaction and the fact that you are doing activities to the best of your abilities for yourself.

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