Champions Eat Together

Don’t be fooled by the extravagance of this article as it divulges details of expensive dinners and rare wines. The point of San Antonio Spurs’ coach Gregg Popovich's legendary meals isn’t debauchery, but community.

This quote sums it up:

"It was important to him that, obviously, we were fed, but also that we had the opportunity to eat together," says Tim Dignan, who played at Pomona under Popovich.

I’ve written before that one of the best activities to build community is eating together. These anecdotes serve as proof. It’s the very pathway that took the Spurs from just a team (group of people with a common goal) to a community (group of people with a common purpose).

As we emerge from COVID-19’s strictest isolation recommendations, and perhaps retreat back into more distancing due to the Delta variant, we must make time and effort to eat together as safely as possible.

We have to eat to live, and not just for the sake of nutrients. For our own mental and psychological health we’ve got to eat alongside one another, not just to ingest calories but to ingest community.