Conflicting Schedule

Week two of the NFL season has come and gone, and there were quite a few interesting games. One of those games was definitely the Lions vs 49ers game. Ever since the Lions suffered a big loss to the Jets in week one, I was ready and hoping that they would bounce back against San Fransisco. But before I could get too excited for the game, one of the worst things possible happened. I got scheduled for work, during the game. DUN DUN DUN! I knew that there was no way I was gonna be able to focus on working at all without knowing what was going on in the game, so I set up my strategy. I work at McDonald's, but I'm in the back making the food, so costumers don't see if I whip out my phone to check the score. The main part of the plan is hoping that the manager that is working is one of the more "chill" or laid back managers that don't care if you look at you phone as long as you work. I pull into the McDonald's parking lot, ready to go inside. The moment of truth, who is the manager. Turns out it was one of the chill managers, but I still wasn't able to focus on work. Every time I went to do something I thought "What if we just made a huge play that everyone will be talking about and I missed it". This led to me checking my phone an over obnoxious amount of times. One of my coworkers said that he could tell how the game was doing simply on how quickly I worked. If Lions scored I would be bouncing around, quick to do what I was asked. On the other hand, when 49ers were scoring I slowed down. Towards the end of my shift I give one last glance at my phone, Lions losing 13 to 30 in the fourth quarter. That's when I stopped checking. No way they were going to come back from down 17, with only around 10 minutes to play, right.

 But I was wrong, when I got out of worked and looked at my phone, Lions were only trailing by 3 points with the score 27 to 30 and only 3 minutes to play. I decide to stay in the McDonald's parking lot to watch the end of the game on my phone.49ers had the ball, Lions need to play good defence and retain possession of the ball to get any chance to win. 3rd down comes, all we need is a stop and the balls ours. Jimmy Garoppolo, 49ers quarterback throws the ball, and Lions pick it off and run it into field goal range. I begin to celebrate in my car until I notice that there was a flag on the play, holding. just like that, the 49ers have the ball back and a first down. My celebration quickly turns to frustration and I begin to yell at the refs through my phone, or at least till I see an older gentleman give me a weird look. he was probably thinking "working at McDonald's isn't that bad, is it". Lions defence does end up getting a stop, and Lions get the ball but time is too little and the are unable to score, therefore giving us another loss. Next Sunday, Lions play the Patriots at 8:30 on NBC. Also make sure to read next weeks blog to get some of my opinions about Tom Brady and why the Lions should or shouldn't have beat him.