Sometimes being the best is not good enough

After watching the Miami Heat win game one against the Dallas Mavericks 92-84. The hype about one team being better than the other is just that... Lets face it, their can only be one champion and no matter how close the margin, someone is going to loose and someone is going to win...  If you look back at sports over the past 30 years, you would see exactly what I am talking about.

When they induct you into the Hall Of Fame do they ask if you were a winner, or a looser? The truth is, they ask the same question about each player every time, did he impact the game, and if the answer is yes, then you are inducted in! Even, if you did 'nt win a Championship!

I can never forget 4 consecutive years in a row that I watch the Buffalo Bills go to the Super Bowl and loose  1 Super Bowl games because the kicker missed a field goal. They were the best in their conference but regardless of how good they were they could not win a Super Bowl. That Buffalo Bills will always be great, but not in the way that the teams that beat them were, they won the Super Bowl!

Then came the Utah Jazz and the New Jersey Nets, both teams played consecutive years in the NBA Finals but could not win the title! Several members from both teams will automatically be inducted in to the Hall Of Fame because of the stamp that they left on the game. They were winners but they lost the ultimate prize, the Championship! They were compensated for their efforts, but lets look at it from this prospective do you think that if they would have won, that they would have been more deserving of the prizes that they received?

Unfortunately being the best is not good enough, being the greatest is what makes a Champion a Winner on any level of sports! Michael Jordan is the greatest to ever play the game, but Karl Malone scored over 30,000 point making him the second leading scorer of all time behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar... Why isn't Malone mention as being great? If he would have won a Championship, would he have been great then?

1997	Utah Jazz	2–4	Chicago Bulls	[65]
1998	Utah Jazz	2–4	Chicago Bulls

2002	Los Angeles Lakers	4–0	New Jersey Nets	[70]
2003	San Antonio Spurs	4–2	New Jersey Nets	[71

Football

XXVIII	1994	Dallas Cowboys	Buffalo Bills	30-13	Atlanta, GA
XXVII	1993	Dallas Cowboys	Buffalo Bills	52-17	Pasadena, CA
XXVI	1992	Washington Redskins	Buffalo Bills	37-24	Minneapolis, MN
XXV	1991	New York Giants	Buffalo Bills	20-19	Tampa, FL

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