"Run, and you'll live...at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days, from this day to that, for one chance – just one chance – to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives but they'll never take our FRRREEEEDDOM !"
Les took his chance. And it cost him his playing career (and the Bears a good player). But it also gave him the ability to say he returned a kickoff in a Superbowl (not to mention helped win in a dominating fashion that will live as long as the NFL is still around).
Or to paraphrase Frank Drebin: "Sure, you take chance crossing the street, or sticking your face in fan....."
Maybe I'm old enough to have lived long enough (or maybe to know better) but I see too much "bubble wrap" happening to folks. We are turning into "Bubble People"