Thoughts on life

I'm sitting in on a coaches meeting with my dad. He's a head coach for a up and coming club team in town. As I'm sitting here, I'm looking at a lot of faces. Most of them my age or younger. Some look tired. Some look like they can go on all night. But these guys all have a story. They're all here to sign up and play football. But looking at them, you can tell some of these guys have been through a lot. One has a kid on his lap. His girlfriend, and his child's mother is in the next room. On of them has tear drops next to his eyes. You get the picture. This isn't the ghetto, really. My dad and his coaches are reaching out to a lot of kids from a lot of areas of town. There's two that live in Seven Oaks. Another drives a BMW. They're all here for a common goal, and that's football. To join together as a band of brothers, and smash the living heck out of each other while trying to get a leather ball down a 100 yards. These guys have a purpose. Even though they come from a wide variety of lifestyles, they're all here, unified.

The great thing about this is that they're looking to better their lives. My dad and his coaches aren't just here to assist with teaching these guys how to play football. They're here to be moral support. They're here to help talk them through a hard time in life. I believe everyone needs something like this in their life. It may not be football. It may be another sport. It may be academic decathlon. With those activities and coaches, they help guide and support young adults to better shape their lives. They lead them. After hearing some stories from the guys he coached last season, They're making an impact. One guy became a Christian. Another gave up drugs and his party club lifestyle. He's still not a Christian, however he's living a better life now than when he was a wreck.

Now the coaches are starting to gear up for the next season, and this is the biggest turnout they've had in the soon to be three years of club operation. 30+ guys showed up tonight. That's another 30+ chances to impact a life. And those lives are going to (literally and mentally/emotionally) impact others over time.

Hi-Ho Silver! To New Mexico!

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Looks like the Lone Ranger is starting to shoot next month. First stages of shooting are going to be in New Mexico. Specifically Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and Shiprock. This film is slated to be out in 2013, with hopefully big box office results. I know the suits are worried about this film after the release of Cowboys and Aliens not doing so well. A lot is...ahem....riding on this film to do well, but with the director leadings of Gore Verbinski, and star power of Depp even not as a lead role, I'm sure that it will do relatively well in the general public's eye. I know I'm already planning on being there opening day for this one. Now we just have to wait for more production photos to release as this film starts rolling...

The Nut's Are Falling From the Family Tree...

I know it's been nearly a month since I've posted anything, but I really haven't had the desire, and nothing really amazing has happened to post about. However there IS something that happened over last night and today that was rather interesting. I got into an argument with a family member over football.

Now here's the deal, I try not to worry TOO much about other people's opinions on sports teams, because after all, there ARE 32 teams in the NFL, 30 in the MLB, 30 in the NHL, 30 in the NBA and countless golfers and race car drivers. With that said, my uncle from the east coast decides to start a little facebook fire with how the Denver/Pittsburg game was a fluke, and how Denver truly showed up yesterday against the Patriots. I kindly reminded him that Denver is still a quite young franchise, especially with a quarterback that had a lot of ground to cover after Orton was wrongly handling the team.

But instead of a play by play of me typing it out...here's a few screenshots of the convo.

Overall, it's relatively laughable that Rich and Tom got worked up over this. I complimented both teams, and yet they couldn't wrap their foamtarded little heads around the fact that Denver has done a lot of positives this year too, despite some shaky negatives. The funny part of this? About an hour ago Rich unfriended me on facebook. There was more to this conversation that I unfortunately didn't get to screenshot, but it got a bit more personal on his side, calling my dad out and such. My dad is  6'1, and pretty stinking muscular for his age. These guys are in their late 20's, stacked with beer guts and don't get out much on the athletic side. Yet Rich said he was the better athlete in the family...when he never stepped foot on a football field competitively. Whereas my dad has, and on top of that coached multiple football teams to championships. Huh. 

All in all, family is crazy sometimes. These two prove that. I know some might question my motives for calling out family as such on my blog, especially given the way news and links spread over the globe with a click of a button. However I feel that a lot of my life's stories are relatable to at least someone else out there, and for that, I post. 

Now I gotta stick to my branch in this family tree. Don't want to fall any more than these two have...