Last week my beloved Flyers came roaring back from a 3-0 deficit in the Eastern Conference Semifinals, to defeat the Bruins. They even went so far as to fall behind 3-0 in the final game before scoring 4 unanswered goals. Now they march on to Montreal and hopefully to the Cup finals.
Once again, Philadelphia sports teaches us a valuable lesson about life.
This team had lost two goalies and it's two biggest stars by the time the playoffs began. We went to war with Brian Boucher, whom we had drafted initially and whom Bob Clarke ran out of town because Boosh was a critic of Bill Barber and Clarke has never managed to find a way to separate his personal feelings from his ability to do what is best for the team. If he had, Eric Lindros would have retired a Flyer with a couple of Cup rings. But I digress.
But our boys battled back from life support to win the series. How did they do it? What was the secret? Simple...they won it the only way they could have. They won game 4. Then they won game 5. Then they won game 6 and it was level ground again. They they fell behind early in game 7, but having the strength of those 3 previous miracle wins to draw from, they stayed calm, scored 4 more goals and sent the Bruins golfing.
That's how you do it in life too. You can't come all the way back from devastation in one fell swoop. You get up each day, do what you can for as long as you can and then you do it again tomorrow. You refuse to admit defeat and you never quit.
One day you wake up and you realize what you just did, how much you just overcame, how much of a hero you really are. After passing a test like that, there is no mountain you can't climb...or at least you won't try climbing.
"Everything is possible...with High Hopes!"
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