Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank will unlikely be confused with a great philosopher or as a person good with creating outside-the-box thinking.
According to Arthur Blank, the Falcons having their Super Bowl rematch with the New England Patriots this week isn't something the team can't use to create closure. Not because he believes his team is bad, but because what is closure anyway … or something.
“No, no closure,” Blank told NFL.com. “There's nothing open. I mean, if there's nothing open, there's nothing to close.”
What?
“Last year is finished,” Blank continued. “I'd say the franchise had a wonderful year, I mean that truly. Both on and off the field. We finished our stadium, the team had a wonderful year, competed at the highest level. It didn't end the way we wanted to, we certainly didn't conclude the way we wanted to. But we've learned from it, grown from it, I think we're better for it.”
So, uh, I am terribly confused. There's no closure around, but the Falcons learned from it because a stadium was built?
“Whenever you play the Super Bowl champs, whether you played in the game or not, you want to have success,” Arthur Blank said. “You play the champions in any sport … you watch a golf tournament, when number one in the world is leading, they all want to win the tournament and beat number one. So, New England is No. 1 and obviously we'd like to go out there and have a successful result.”
OK. I think I got it now.
I lied. I still have no idea what is happening.
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