Monday, October 28, 2013

The trap game

football is one of the hardest games to not fall into the trap or quicksand. Quicksand is when one thing goes wrong and that just causes it to snowball and all it does is tumble downward from there. In the movie Every Given Sunday it is said the best when the pre game speech it occured, it said, "I don't know what to say really. Three minutes to the biggest battle of our professional lives all comes down to today. Either we heal as a team or we are going to crumble. Inch by inch play by play till we're finished. We are in hell right now, gentlemen believe me and we can stay here and get the shit kicked out of us or we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb out of hell. One inch, at a time. Now I can't do it for you. I'm too old. I look around and I see these young faces and I think I mean I made every wrong choice a middle age man could make. I uh.... I pissed away all my money believe it or not. I chased off anyone who has ever loved me. And lately, I can't even stand the face I see in the mirror. You know when you get old in life things get taken from you. That's, that's part of life. But, you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out that life is just a game of inches. So is football. Because in either game life or football the margin for error is so small. I mean one half step too late or to early you don't quite make it. One half second too slow or too fast and you don't quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They are in ever break of the game every minute, every second. On this team, we fight for that inch On this team, we tear ourselves, and everyone around us to pieces for that inch. We CLAW with our finger nails for that inch. Cause we know when we add up all those inches that's going to make the fucking difference between WINNING and LOSING between LIVING and DYING. I'll tell you this in any fight it is the guy who is willing to die who is going to win that inch. And I know if I am going to have any life anymore it is because, I am still willing to fight, and die for that inch because that is what LIVING is. The six inches in front of your face. Now I can't make you do it. You gotta look at the guy next to you. Look into his eyes. Now I think you are going to see a guy who will go that inch with you. You are going to see a guy who will sacrifice himself for this team because he knows when it comes down to it, you are gonna do the same thing for him. That's a team, gentlemen and either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals. That's football guys. That's all it is. Now, whattaya gonna do?" This speech is one of the greatest speeches of all time and i believe that it needed to be said in my blog

Monday, October 21, 2013

physicality

The sport of football is the best sport to watch if you want to watch something with lots of violence anger and aggression this is the sport that you need to be apart of. There is no greater feeling than knocking some guy off the ball against his will. It is a dog eat dog world and its a street fight for sixty minutes. It is one of the funnest things in the world to do and thats to come off the ball and hit someone in the mouth. Feed them the screws and blow them up. Snot bubbles greasy eyes whatever it all has to make you feel good. It is a great sport it is amazing. Ray lewis said it best it is all about effort no matter what happens you can control effort no matter what is happening or going on. Being the most physical people on the field no matter what happens you will need to man up and put people on there back. It will be one of the greatest feats you will ever go through if you are able to put another guy on there back against their will. It will be a great to be able to say that you were able to put another kid on his back or into his bench in front of his hometown and family. It is basically saying hey i am a ton better than you don't question it.

Monday, October 14, 2013

Hard work

When you think of football what word comes to mind? Many I am assuming. Hard work is by far the most important thing a team can do. If you work hard you can overcome many things. Talent is a great thing to have but if you don't have any work ethic then there is really no point in being talented. Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. Some people with the best talent in the world have yet to make it out of high school because they are lazy or its to hard and they don't want to do it. Well guess what those people will and can fail in life. Football is the game of life played out before your eyes. What are you going to do when you are backed up against the wall? you going to crumble or are you going to grow a backbone and do what you are capable of. It doesn't matter what they other person is doing it only matters what you can do to make the teams dream come true. What are you gonna do sit there and get beat up or stand up and fight back its all a choice. You make the choice of what you wanna do? SO are you gonna sit there and do nothing or beat the people in front of you the choice is all yours.

Monday, October 7, 2013

Adversity

There is a quote about adversity that says everyone can be upbeat when things are going good, but what do those people do when the shit is hitting the fan what is going to happen when things are going south how are you going to overcome what is thrown at you. Many people will just give up and crawl up into a hole and pretend like everything is okay and forget about how hard they have worked. All that matters is what you are doing and how you respond because people around you will take you as a leader and do what you do. Sometimes some emotion is better than no emotion sometimes it is better to have a negative reaction then to just sit there and take it. Everything does not always go right sometimes things go terribly wrong and that is when you have to be positive you have to fight back you need to get up and make sure that you are the one who wins the game makes the best block make the best play