Counseling from Coach Lombardi

As the BC Lions peer into the abyss, it is time to remember the words of Vince Lombardi, the Green Bay legend.  Coach Lombardi said "Winning isn't everything--it's the only thing."

Lombardi claimed never to have lost a game.  If a game ended with the Packers on the short end of the score, he would say "We didn't lose--the time ran out," confident that if the clock had kept running, his team would have triumphed. Memo to Wally Buono:  These words may work in the next post-game media scrum.

P.S.:  When Richard Nixon was US President, he often would telephone the Washington Redskins coach to suggest plays.  The coach would politely thank him, and then throw the plays away. A thought: Is it possible that Stephen Harper is phoning in plays to the Lions--and they're using them?