We got to the Big Dance and the slipper fit, but the clock struck 12. To get to the (state) championship game far exceeded anything that we imagined. Even though we came up a little short, we can't be disappointed. We definitely overachieved.

Tonight the slipper fit, and we put it on.

I know now why Franz Schubert Never finished his unfinished symphony He would have written more but the clock struck four, And everything stopped for tea

[Then they promptly blew through all those deadlines, and took the clock down to 32 seconds before they struck a deal with the Ravens.] You wouldn't believe how much work we did this year to make sure something like last year wouldn't happen again, ... We just cut it too close. We didn't leave enough time for a deal to get done. It shouldn't have gotten to that point.

Fit and Finish

There never was an old slipper but there was an old stocking to match it.