Last night I sat down and watched the NFL Network show “Worth the Wait” about the 2015 Super Bowl Champion Denver Broncos. I am a bit of a sucker for the year in review type of show, and I think this is a good version of that type of program. Featured among the show’s content were interviews with several members of the Broncos’ coaching staff, as well as Broncos GM John Elway. The show reminded viewers that many members of this particular coaching staff had been fired by the Houston Texans after a disappointing 2013 campaign, low-lighted by Head Coach Gary Kubiak’s stroke on the sideline.

I thought it was a good reminder of the way that teams in the NFL are brought together by happenstance. At one point during the telecast the offensive line coach, Clancy Barone was discussing how the offensive line evolved throughout the course of the season. One lineman was “changing diapers” at one point. It was a euphemism for the player being unemployed by an NFL team at the time when he was signed. The player was effective enough to contribute to a Super Bowl winning team. That’s an astonishing fact. There is a very thin line between success and failure in the NFL even for teams that succeed at the highest level.

Each coach that was interviewed for the show was offered the opportunity to state how long he had been working in the league, and show off his Super Bowl ring. I found it to be a nice piece of humanity. Oftentimes we as fans see the players as robots and the coaches as either geniuses or morons, depending on whether or not our team won that week. These brief interludes from a serious dissection of the 2015 Broncos season added a bit of levity, and a reminder that these are people, working a job for which many of them have been fired and rehired, and fired and rehired again.

I enjoyed this program because at the beginning of the season, fans are typically awash in speculation. People are so certain who is going to be a star, take the next step, or compete for a championship. The show was about the little things that have to go right for a team to have the ultimate success: filling holes in the offensive line with a player working from home, or counting on coaches that have been toiling for decades to achieve their dream.

As a Vikings fan, I have my team finishing above .500, and making it to the playoffs. The reality is that there are few certainties about any season in the NFL. Teddy Bridgewater can’t get injured again, and the Vikes could sign some kid off of the Saints practice squad that catches the game winning pass in the Super Bowl. The season is about the ride. I’m going to try and enjoy my team’s ride.