Well, Kansas just won the NCAA ‘ship. They were down by a ton at the half and managed to storm back and overcome the largest deficit in NCAA championship history. Nice. Maybe not the cinderella story we looked for, but we got a story. Sports is always about the story. The story is often as important and at time more important than the skill of the players involved. That is why some expert players aren’t focused on nearly as much as others. We live in story. We believe in story. In story we conceptualize who we could be if the situation were just a little different–if we got to shoot our shot. Part of the story being told here was about Roy Williams having been the HC of both the teams playing tonight. The Roy Williams bowl. Nice, but for our household the story was about Remy Martin finally getting his moment to win the tournament–the moment he risked (and likely missed) his career for. He was a top 10 prospect when he was a sophomore and here he is, a 5th year player and a bench player on the Jayhawks and still the guy who carried them forward at the end. Only, nobody seems to be telling that story. Sometimes stories have their moment and then the moment fades, no matter how more interesting they get.
Some Thoughts:
- I am, for lack of a better term, addicted to story. I just have been spending tons more time listening to and playing through stories than I have been telling my own. As the years flutter by I need to be thinking about telling more of my stories while I still can.
- One of the stories I still feel I need to constantly tell is the sports stories of my kids. I guess it makes me feel involved.