Epitaphs

One can learn his lessons in many ways. Two of the experiential ways are the good example and the bad example. Being a hall 0f famer at the latter I have often shared how not to do things with my boys ending the lesson with the painful truth, "You can always serve as a bad example."

The other day after just such a lesson, son #3 began to laugh and said, "Dad, we're going to put that on your tombstone." It was a lighthearted moment and we all roared!

I had to think of that moment at the end of the Super Bowl when Bill Belichick went out of his way to exemplify "poor sportsmanship" to the entire world. Ladies and gentlemen, if you ever need to point your children to how not to behave amidst the thrill and drama of athletic competition, there it was in spades!