During the press conference when his Nobel Prize (chemistry) award was announced in October 1986, the Harvard professor, Dudley Herschbach (Janice’s freshman chemistry professor, with whom Professor Yuan Tseh Lee, 李遠哲, shared the prize) donned a baseball cap and joked about Red Sox.
He was talking about how Red Sox’s come back in the playoffs, “The exciting thing about the Red Sox is the improbability of it all. There must be divine intervention here. That’s the only way to explain it.”
Christina Aguilera (see photo) botched line while singing the national anthem and that should be treated as the bad omen for the Steelers as she is from Pittsburgh area. A drug company representative told me today that, during the game, he kept changing the seats, praying the luck would come if he were to sit in the right place and Steelers kept pulling closer; it is too bad that he must have run out of the seats and Steelers running out of time. Penguins’ loss to Washington Capitals yesterday afternoon before the Super Bowl is also a bad omen if you will.
Like Professor Herschbach said in baseball, it is also divine intervention in football, nothing the players or the fans could do about it. So cheer up.
Thinking about this line I began to feel better, then my office Epson printer wouldn’t print and I noticed the black and yellow (gold) ink cartridges ran out, and cyan (greenish blue) and magenta (purplish red) were still full. I began to feel guilty again; It would have made all the difference had I changed the black and the gold cartridges before the game.
Even though Ben Roethlisberg threw two interception passes, Troy Polamalu and James Harrison were not themselves, Shaun Suisham missed the 52-yard field goal, and Rashard Mendenhall fumbled at the critical moment, we are still very grateful for an exciting season that gave us so much joy and hope—audacious one, indeed. Let me paraphrase Churchill to say that never in the Heinz Field of human entertainment was so much owed by so many to so few. These so few are the chosen ones.
As I previously said I always admire the Green Bay Packers from the distance and it is now more so than ever; my hat is off.
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