Halloween Heart

I am happy for the Rams. I am happy for Coach Vitt. I am happy for Steven Jackson. Things are finally looking up at Rams Park. Sports are so weird sometimes. Games that are so tied to statistics, usually breakdown to something more. Joe Vitt used the movie Gladiator to rally the troops. This may seem silly, but in sports sometimes the smallest things can make the big differences.

I will always love Mike Martz and the excitement he brought to St. Louis every year and every week, but sometimes it was not the good kind of excitement. He is a great X's and O's guy, but he always seemed aloof and unexciteable. He never seemed able to instill the passion for the game needed to win the game. He obviously had it, but he could not communicate it.

As we may be seeing more as this season progresses, it is more about the heart than the head. Which is slightly ironic given that both Martz and Vitt had heart operations this season. But when players and coaches believe in their hearts that they can do something, it can be much more powerful than whatever is running through their minds.

It may be cheesy, but so is Gladiator. That worked.