Before a lot of permanent decay, the subject matter has one sweet day when circumstances conspire to stop the decay, bring back the smiles and one great match, game, performance to remember what made the that person great at one point. For those blissful hours, it feels like the good old days before the decay began to rot. Occasionally, those days help rekindle the "he/she still has it" Usually, they fail to stop the inevitable.
today was just one of those days