Ten Takeaways from Washington Football victory over California

Slow start narrative has run it’s course

In their games so far, the Washington Football team reminds me of the final scene in an early 80’s movie “Flashdance”. The star, Jennifer Beals, enters an audition for a dance scholarship and hesitates as she sees the cast of evaluators lined up to grade her. That leads to a slow start to her dance routine which she apologizes for and asks to start again. Then, she blows the lid off the room and wins her scholarship with flying colors.

The Washington team resembles that type of opening, and that type of finish. But this is not the Olympics, is it? It’s not the style, or the artistic expression. It’s not even the drama of struggling all game with turnovers only to pull out the game by last minute heroics.

This team simply keeps coming. Somewhere near halftime, the opponent collapses.  Then, the Washington Football team takes over. No, it may not be overly dramatic for television melodrama. But it wins games in a convincing way.  It’s the final score, and not the halftime score, which decides the winner.