The Bag tackles Beethoven, Joni Mitchell, loss, home-improvement stores, Michigan Football, and assorted other stuff.
Joni Mitchell1 once sang, "You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone." But, then, she also sang, "I deal in dreamers and telephone screamers." Point being, there were a lot of drugs being done in the late 60s and early 70s. But my other point being, as clichéd as that line from "Big Yellow Taxi" sounds, it’s also true.2
It is especially true in the world of the NFL where, when your team is good – or even when one aspect of your team is good – it is easy to fall into the mindset that "good" is the new normal.