{"id":93776,"date":"2022-01-01T20:31:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T03:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=93776"},"modified":"2022-01-06T23:20:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T06:20:52","slug":"a-very-satisfying-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2022\/01\/a-very-satisfying-defeat.html","title":{"rendered":"A very satisfying defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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It was a heart-breaker.\u00a0 The University of Utah lost in the last twelve seconds of the Rose Bowl game, which was just completed, after having led Ohio State almost all the way.\u00a0 But they can be proud.\u00a0 No embarrassment whatsoever.\u00a0 Not even remotely.\u00a0 They played very well.\u00a0 And, had the game ended just a bit earlier, or perhaps if it had gone just a bit longer, they would have won.\u00a0 They have definitely established themselves as a football program that deserves to be taken seriously.<\/p>\n

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Britain Covey, whom we know and whom we like and admire very much, was under enormous pressure for much of the game, but he still did remarkably well<\/a>.\u00a0 And, at the very end, with only eight or nine seconds to go, he was the last desperate hope.\u00a0 The huge pro-Ute crowd was chanting \u201cCovey! Covey! Covey!\u201d as he prepared to receive the final kick-off.<\/p>\n

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It wasn\u2019t to be, but he and his team have very much of which to be proud, as does my adopted home state of Utah.\u00a0 Congratulations to everybody involved.\u00a0 (And I\u2019ll be enthusiastically pulling for the BYU football team to score a decisive victory over the University of Utah when the two schools next face each other, in 2024.)<\/p>\n

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We had a very quiet New Year\u2019s Eve yesterday, and a similarly quiet and anti-social New Year\u2019s Day today.\u00a0 Although, realistically, I expect that I\u2019ll probably contract the COVID omicron virus eventually despite my being fully Pfizered, I\u2019m in no real hurry to do so.\u00a0 (Pretty soon, as the Babylon Bee<\/em> has predicted, if we continue to allow the virus to multiply and to mutate, the CDC will run out of letters of the Greek alphabet with which to designate the new variants and will begin to name them after the Muppets.)\u00a0 So, like others in my family, I\u2019m being careful.\u00a0 (Nonetheless, one critic who knows me very well \u2014 we saw each other briefly for several years at the annual FAIR conference but haven\u2019t run into each other for probably something on the order of a decade, and he boasts that he won\u2019t lower himself to read any of the drivel that I write \u2014 has recently confided to his audience, by insinuation rather than directly, that I\u2019m an ardent opponent of masks and a fervent anti-vaxxer.)<\/p>\n

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So, last night, we had our annual New Year\u2019s K\u00e4sefondue<\/em> \u2014 a hommage<\/em> to my beloved Switzerland \u2014 and, since I happened to have thought about it yesterday, we watched the wonderful 1983 TV-movie The Scarlet and the Black<\/em><\/a>, with Gregory Peck, Christopher Plummer, and Sir John Gielgud.\u00a0 And I\u2019m happy to report that I woke up this morning completely without a hangover.<\/p>\n

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P.S.\u00a0 Gregory Peck was the narrator for the 1999 PBS documentary on Joseph Smith: American Prophet<\/em> and, amazingly, although he had died in the meantime, his recorded voice was still useable for the substantial 2017 remake of that film that was done by Lee Groberg and Mark Goodman.\u00a0 So, when we decided to do our docudrama on the Book of Mormon Witnesses (which now seems likely, for various reasons, to premiere in February rather than in January), I naturally asked Mark, who had directed Witnesses<\/em><\/a> and was now directing the docudrama, whether we could perhaps get Mr. Peck to narrate it<\/em>.\u00a0 Mark claims, though, to have misplaced Mr. Peck\u2019s phone number.\u00a0 Are you really buying that?<\/p>\n

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