3 Lessons My Super Bowl Winning Uncle Taught Me About Success
“It’s not by accident that no one has ever become great by accident” — Uncle Reggie
“All the world’s a stage,” and upon this stage now stands a whopping 7,800,000,000 actors!
Given that all such actors are confined to “making a living” on the same crowded stage, clearly the chances of getting paid a hefty sum for playing a game is, as an old football coach once scoffed, “Basically zero to none!”
Now, when you factor in most NFL pundits call the ’85 Bears the Greatest Team in NFL History, as even Obama delighted in offering commentary in the documentary, the chances that Uncle Reggie — my mother’s blood brother — would score a touchdown in the Super Bowl, while playing on that legendary team, is “basically zero to none.”
My uncle Reggie, however, defied the odds.
Though Uncle Reggie only stands 5 feet, 10 inches off the ground, in my eyes as a child, he just as well had stood 10 feet, 5 inches. After all, as far as I could tell: Uncle Reggie was a giant.
Because success leaves clues, over the years I’ve played the part of the pesky brain surgeon, hoping to pick Uncle Reggie’s brain. Thankfully, for my sake, he’s always been gracious enough to take me under his…
