just like in nature

Watching the 49ers game today reminded me of something I saw on an old videotape highlighting a 49ers championship season from yesteryear. In that particular year, their opponents in the playoffs were the Vikings and the Rams. Prior to the game as part of their psyching up and preparing for the game, two of the Vikings players slammed the crowns of their helmets together, then afterwards circled their heads around. It's a nice close-up shot taken by the camera person establishing a great mood for the battle ahead.

And yet I couldn't help but imagine how much better it would have been if instead of two Vikings players slamming their helmets together, it had been two of the Rams players. The sound their helmets would have made, the visual of seeing a couple of Rams smashing their heads against each other and then shaking off the effects of such a violent act, it would have been a perfect impression of two actual big-horned rams charging each other and smashing their heads against one another, awesome footage which I have seen on nature shows.

Of course none of the football warm-ups above were scripted but just the thought that one of the playoff opponents that year included the Rams brought this vision of nature to mind.