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Before the confetti fell, Mike Macdonald was brutally honest about the price of the ring. In a candid moment during the playoff push, he admitted that for most of the season, his time with his son, Jack, was limited to a specific window: 30 minutes on Thursday nights. "I try to get home pretty quick to be with him, maybe a half-hour to an hour before he goes to bed," Macdonald said. "Then I go back to the setup at my house to work on the game plan." For the rest of the week? He was Findlay a way to with the Super Bowl. Film sessions until midnight. The relentless pressure to turn a franchise around. Two years into the job, that "absentee" grind has turned into a Lombardi Trophy. It serves as a stark reminder that rings are built in the quiet, lonely hours of a Tuesday morning, in missed milestones, and in the "Thursday 30" that keeps you going. For Macdonald, the sacrifice was extreme. But so is the reward. Super Bowl Champion in Year 2. But, at the end of the day, as Dominic Toretto has said in several Fast and Furious films, family is the most important thing. Hopefully, coach Macdonald will spend a ton of time this offseason with his son.