For those who like to watch what they say
So there are some things in this world that I would never do. In this video you are about to watch this is one of them. I may jump out of an airplane, I may but I would never shoot an arrow across a canyon with a rope attached to it and hope that it would hold me while I jumped off the cliff with the rope attached to me. I can only say one thing, “suicide wish.”
it appears like the NHL will experience another strike. Actually it is a lock out . So we who are fans are again reminded that this is not about sports but it is simply about business.
We are also reminded that we as fans don’t count when it comes to business.
I have found out something, Sports is a lot like life. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. How is that for deep? Yesterday there was a game played that featured the Seattle Seahawks and the Green Bay Packers. It was an amazing game, one might say a spectacle of enormous proportions. The game was won by Seattle on the last play of the game. It was a hail mary pass that was thrown into the end zone with nothing more that a prayer and a hope that it would be caught.
David is an amazing kid when it comes to sports. He is Eleven years old and can name every Q.B. in the N.F.L. and the C.F.L. His predictions are uncanny and besides that he plays Q.B. for the Downtown Giants. He is not a New York Jets fan and is opinionated about Tebow as a quarterback. So tonight he picks New York over Dallas and in the upcoming Pittsburgh game he picks Pittsburgh over Denver. Colts vs. Bears
The Question of the day is, what do you think of the Olympics? Personally I have enjoyed them. I like the personal stories and the drama . In every Olympics there is controversy and in the women’s soccer match between the U.S.A. and Canada it was crazy.
Mike Falcon is an amazing person. I first meet Mike in Kelowna B.C. and Mike was the ultimate sports guy. He did it all and he now lives in Vancouver and now in his fifties he is still doing it all.
Just by accident I meet up with Mike in Cold Harbor. He was hooking up a slack line and was getting ready to work out.
So to my surprise Gas Town held a major Bike race last night. It was called the Gas Town Grand Prix. So I wandered into town and to my shock, 30,000 other people wandered in also. I found out that this was a pro event and had some good prize money. I also found out that the winner takes home $15,000. They travel just over 50 Kilometres and they are moving, with speeds up to 60 miles per hour.
You may or may not know this but I am a big football fan. Recently, I have been thinking about players who impress me and Tim Tebow comes to mind. Here is a quote from Tim,
“Success comes in a lot of ways, but it doesn’t come with money and it doesn’t come with fame. It comes from having a meaning in your life, doing what you love and being passionate about what you do. That’s having a life of success. When you have the ability to do what you love, love what you do and have the ability to impact people. … That’s having a life of success. That’s what having a life of meaning is.”
How can you not like a guy with an attitude like that?
Sometimes you need to be inspired. You need something or someone to say something or do something that causes you to rise up and get back on your feet and finish the task at hand. I have watched this video so many times and I usually end up in tears after watching it.
The Vancouver Canucks start the playoffs. In Vancouver this is bigger than Christmas and Easter rolled into one. For some it transcends sports and almost reaches a religious quality. (All hail the Canucks) The Vancouver team will play some lads from down South. (California boys) The deal is if I lived in California I would rather be on the beach than on the ice. These California boys have a great goalie and they play tight defence and plan on winning low scoring games. It has worked so far.
So the other question is, well there will be riots if the team wins or loses. I think there are enough social rejects in Vancouver to try again. This is the only way some people ever get attention. We do not realize how socially inept a large section of our population is. When you have a Vancouver Justice System (now there is an oxymoron) like the one we put up with it does not deter a lot of socially dysfunctional idiots who live in our land.
This is an amazing movie about a school football team in the poor section of Memphis. It is also about the devotion of a coach to his players. It is a story of inspiration, but more than that it is a story of the reality of what young people are subject to when they come from the inner city schools.
One of the lines in the documentary says, “football does not build character but it does reveal character.” The story is about young men who have the cards stacked against them simply because of what they were born into. The way out is not always easy but it is attainable. The coach of the team was is a father figure to many, a mentor and a lifeline to a better life.
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