Pete Carroll called for or allowed a pass instead of a one-yard run that would have won the Super Bowl championship for the second year in a row.

Carroll, a great coach and motivator beloved by his players, took full responsibility for the screw up.

Patriots coach Bill Belichick is arguably the best coach in pro football history but his team wouldn’t have won the game on the one-yard line without Seattle’s timely mistake.

What does this tell us?

That mistakes are made every day even ones that will be enshrined forever in the sports all of shame.

That Pete Carroll doesn’t just know how to win.

He also knows how to lose with grace and dignity which almost guarantees that he will win once again.

There is no embarrassment to winning “just” one Super Bowl as pundits seem to be suggesting of Carroll – ask The Philadelphia Eagles and other teams who have never won even one Super Bowl trophy.

We are entitled to nothing in life – contrary to our apparent values these days.

We win when we learn the lessons of losing.

The more painful it is, the more we find out how badly we want to overcome adversity.

“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up” –Vince Lombardi

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