{"id":34445,"date":"2017-11-06T01:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T06:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34445"},"modified":"2017-10-26T15:33:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T19:33:02","slug":"qotd-bud-grants-football-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/11\/06\/qotd-bud-grants-football-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Bud Grant&#8217;s football philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230; you have to remember one thing: Football is entertainment; it\u2019s not life or death. Once the game is over, you\u2019re already talking about next year and the draft. It\u2019s just entertainment. It\u2019s like going to a play: When it\u2019s over, you walk out the door and it\u2019s over. There are no residuals to it. You\u2019ve got to start all over again. If winning or losing is going to define your life, you\u2019re on a rough road.<\/p>\n<p>Bud Grant, quoted in <a href=\"http:\/\/mmqb.si.com\/mmqb\/2016\/01\/31\/nfl-mmqb-bud-grant-minnesota-vikings-super-bowl-losses-vince-lombardi-disklike\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;&#8216;If Winning or Losing Is Going to Define You, You&#8217;re on a Rough Road'&#8221;, <em>The MMQB with Peter King<\/em><\/a>, 2016-02-01.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; you have to remember one thing: Football is entertainment; it\u2019s not life or death. Once the game is over, you\u2019re already talking about next year and the draft. It\u2019s just entertainment. It\u2019s like going to a play: When it\u2019s over, you walk out the door and it\u2019s over. There are no residuals to it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,41,18,13],"tags":[126,179,576],"class_list":["post-34445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-quotations","category-sports","category-usa","tag-minnesotavikings","tag-nfl","tag-philosophy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8Xz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34446,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34445\/revisions\/34446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}