To go where you’ve never gone before — and do something you’ve never done before — you’ve first got to believe it’s actually possible. And that’s probably the hardest part of the journey: fixing your gaze on the unlikeliest of destinations, drawing a road map, and then getting people to actually go along with you, believing they’re going the right way.
That’s what I thought of Sunday night watching Dan Campbell and the Detroit Lions. A head coach and franchise that lost the NFC title game 344 days ago — victims of their own aggression and mistakes — and somehow, some way, came back and drew an even better map back to a Super Bowl doorstep.