Its the first 5 minutes of the Superbowl. The Second Ranked Red Team just recovered a First Ranked Blue Team Fumble and scored a touchdown.
The Blue Players huddled and with 55 minutes to go in the game, 4 offensive players decided they couldn't win and walked off the field downtrodden and sad! 8 Percent of the Blue Team's Fans headed for the exits, also. The commentators in the TV Booth decided that it's all over folks. There's no way the Blue Team can win. And some Blue Team Supporters watching on TV changed channels to CNN.
The coach called a time out and the players to the sideline to explain that there was a lot of time left and remember, we have the best quarterback, running backs and wide receivers in the game and have a winning game plan. Also, our offensive line is just starting to get it together.
And the Blue Team's All Star Defensive Players were fired up ready for action.
The refs blew the whistle and contrary to many Blue Fans who stopped watching, the game continued.
By the way, some of those who walked off decided to return because they figured they might be replaced with ones off the bench.
I'll leave you with this parable:
From Astronomer George Gamow:
“I once heard of a race of ephemeral insects that lived but one hour. On a mushroom near a rock one of the older insects who had lived well beyond his time was addressing a group of the younger who were watching a setting sun.
The elder told the crowd that there was a time in his youth that not only was the sun higher in the sky but that the sun rose and shone in the east not in the west as it does now. And that could only mean that the sun will sink beyond the western horizon and be lost forever thus dooming their race.
I never learned what happened to that race of insects, but I have heard that the sun rose again the next morning.”