What is the goal of playing football? Well, of course, we would say winning. But there is a clearer point than winning; it is scoring points. We might score six points in a touchdown, three points in a field goal, two points in a safety, or one point in a point after the touchdown. What if I told you of a man that played football 23 years — 15 years in the NFL, four years in college, and four years in high school — and he never scored a touchdown or made a point? This man would have to be a failure, wouldn’t he?
Well, let’s look at this? This man never made a touchdown, but he played in 245 games in his career. Why start a man that can’t score? He made 1,032 tackles — pretty impressive. He blocked 86 passes. He made 19 fumble recoveries, but still no touchdowns. He made three interceptions, but no touchdowns.
While in a football game everything centers on the football and the goal line, but there is more to the game than that. The man’s name is Ed “Too Tall” Jones, and he’s in the Football Hall of Fame, the reason he never made a touchdown was his position — Ed was an All-Pro defensive end, he played 15 years for the Dallas Cowboys. Ed was a team player; he never played to make touchdowns, he played to help his team win. Not everyone that plays football is there to make touchdowns.
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