My soon to be Oregon Duck Daughter made a good point about Dame. How many of you could totally concentrate on your normal everyday responsibilities once your baby was born? Were you super focused on the task at hand, or did your mind wonder through the day? Dame was an assassin the day his girlfriend went into labor, and took off for PDX immediately after the game. But I didn't see the same fire through the rest of the remaining games. He wasn't bad, he was very workmanlike, but that's not Dame. He amps his game up on emotion. Even in his exit interview, he mentioned Family, life in retrospect. Now that's not to say he will never get that edge back, but right now, his mind is elsewhere. Just is. Once he gets away, listens to the national hate coming his way, and believe me, it's out there in heavy doses, I think that fire will get started again, and Dame will comeback more driven then ever. I'm not saying it's the baby's birth fault, cause it's not, but the situation puts a whole new realism to life, and not everyone adjust overnight, and goes back to the way it was.
The only thing about this amazingly well written post that stuck with me is the fact that one of you actually procreated!
What an absolutely ridiculous thread.....you couldn't find a better leader...this post should have the decency to get it's own reality check in my view
