Monday, January 23, 2012

The Thread of a Pigskin

A Football.

Four identical hide pieces of leather.

Ironically, a football is made out of cowhide; of the shoulders and spine.
Moo.
Sewn together with lace-of course.
One of the toughest compounds of lace there is.
Polyvinyl Chloride - Leather Lace
Which is clearly better if not just as good as a Fleet wood Mac love song.


It's a weapon and objective tool in a sport that requires the ultimate test of a human being.
Physical Endurance
Geometrical Creativity
Attitude of Defeat in the most positive sense of the word
All while living in the brotherhood that is part of the backbone of America.

This is a game that is specifically focused on Sunday as it's Game-day.

Myself, having knowledge of religion and history, find it to be no co-incidence that Sunday is the Lords Day.
And being able to have a family football game or watch one with your loved ones is a blessing.
Giving us reason to be lazy and relax, cook, crack open a cold one, and overall enjoy each other.
It's so simple yet so extravagant.

Unfortunately, the simple things in life are what get taken for granted.




Something masterfully crafted and used on a daily basis.
It's not often a football get's thrown out.
If anything, it's one of the cheapest and most valuable family heirlooms there ever was.
Making memories with one, holding onto the essence of a loved one by keeping it, or even remembering lessons taught, all with the surrounding thought that it is just, a football.




America, these days, is becoming lofty, she's not protecting herself from bad decisions.
Or allowing herself to make good ones.

In a world where people would rather watch those who look pretty and buy fancy things, than do something in their own life to make this world a better place.
We aren't thinking anymore about ourselves.
for our future's.
We aren't looking at a game plan.
We're looking at a million separate selfish wants.
And No Game get's won this way.
None.





I feel like we as a country are in an intermission.
We're sucking so bad....but you know we have the strength to pull back up.
We just need to take a look and absorb our foundation.
Look at the tools we were given, and stop ignoring them.
Listen to the calls that were made by players before us.
When they held victories and losses.



But when is enough enough?
When does a coach do his job well?
Is he focusing on strategy? Talent? Motivation?
Does he or she believe in the team and work with them the way a parent would?
Wouldn't that be the way the country would run well?




Essentially our president is the coach.
The people in the cabinets are in-fact the players.
Coach makes a call- Players get their ass on a bench.
So when a linebacker starts doing the quarterbacks job -- isn't it time for that linebacker to be spoken to?



That's why the coach needs to be a person who can identify someone's strengths and weaknesses while knowing wrong from right. Someone who has heart, and faith.
Who understands that underneath a superhuman ego.
People are just that. People.


The reason for me spouting all this today, is for the soul fact that I've had enough.
I know I'm not the only one.
Last week we almost got our freedom of speech, press, creativity and contact taken from us through an organization created by our government to basically Ground the social public.


America - You have been benched.


Don't you get it?
We don't have morals anymore.
You might say that you do....you might get irritated with people who look at things from a deeper perspective.
But you can look at things from a deeper perspective without being obnoxious.
It's possible.
Just recognize the beauty in things around you, stop verbally justifying crap.
Shut up.
Do something.




Instead of watching Jersey Shore.
I said it.

But if there is anyone out there who understands and appreciates something as simple as a football, a music note, or knowledge and the ability to be creative, Or the majesty of science.

With love and respect for it.



Than seriously
Seriously
SERIOUSLY
SERIOUSLY
Re-consider the way you do things.
Insanity is repeating the same thing over and over.
If we keep going down the same road we're on.
This country will be a few hand-basket's short of a pick nick even more than it already is.


So this year when it comes down to it.
Remember the core values and nothing else that this country was founded on.
Remember that there were people willing to take risks.


Abraham Lincoln once stated: "
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

They didn't call him Honest Abe for nothing, asshole.


 
Have faith in the fact that there are people out there who don't want bad things to happen to us from within.


And if we can recognize that, then obviously there is a CHANCE for us to take the next step as a people and find out what we have to do, working together as communities.





It's time for us to pick the right coach.
Who knows how to hold us and shape us as a country the right way.

Because America is tough, she is weathered.
Eventually, even a thread that strong can break if mistreated enough.