jday
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Can anyone tell me the significance of that date? What? No one? Seriously? C'mon people, that's the day I joined...you remember, right? No? Oh...well you should remember. I'm the guy who pop's in and out from time to time to bring a different flavor of perspective. Sometimes I throw out poetry, as I did with Much Ado About Nothing And Everything All At Once (http://cowboyszone.com/threads/much-ado-about-nothing-and-everything-all-at-once.324927/) whereas other times I come at you with my hard-hitting spot-on colorful analysis such as The Cowboys Have Won Nothing Yet (http://cowboyszone.com/threads/the-cowboys-have-won-nothing-yet.325755/). Feel free to peruse through the history of thread's introduced by yours truly; should make for an entertaining half day as you watch me evolve from a guy who knew absolutely nothing about nothing (sure thought I knew alot from my Madden playing day's) to a guy who still knows nothing about nothing, but is now completely aware of it.
That evolution truly is fascinating. You join the site gun's blazing so convinced of your innate and profound understanding of football, only to look back several years later embarrassed by how notoriously wrong you were. There was a time when I actually wondered why football organizations don’t setup kiosk at the local gym to find big men to put in the trenches. Why not? They are big. Strong. Athletic. Shouldn’t too hard to teach them football….I mean, it is just a game, after all. (Sorry for the mess I just made on your monitor when your head exploded)
JUST A GAME?????
Football played in the park is “just a game.” Hell, football played from Pop Warner all the way up to about Junior High is “just a game.” From High School to college, it may still be “just a game” for some, but for the elite few, it is a promise of a better future. For all the kids who still treat football like “just a game” in college, they are the ones who are often described as “just a guy” come draft day whose name doesn’t get read by the commissioner.
It is a microcosm for life, really. Each day you become more and more aware of how very little you really do know. With each new concept you grasp and retain in your brain, you push an old understanding out…or at least you archive it. You know how when you are talking to someone and you happen to veer into a topic that you once knew a lot about, but are so far removed from that time the answer to a question doesn’t come to you until about an hour to half day later? That’s the archive service of your brain at work.
Anywho, I do wonder if any of you (my fellow zoners and Cowboys fanatics) had a belief at one point in your football-watching-career that you look back now on and have to laugh by how unbelievably wrong you were. We’re all friends here…kinda…should make for a fun topic to discuss.
That evolution truly is fascinating. You join the site gun's blazing so convinced of your innate and profound understanding of football, only to look back several years later embarrassed by how notoriously wrong you were. There was a time when I actually wondered why football organizations don’t setup kiosk at the local gym to find big men to put in the trenches. Why not? They are big. Strong. Athletic. Shouldn’t too hard to teach them football….I mean, it is just a game, after all. (Sorry for the mess I just made on your monitor when your head exploded)
JUST A GAME?????
Football played in the park is “just a game.” Hell, football played from Pop Warner all the way up to about Junior High is “just a game.” From High School to college, it may still be “just a game” for some, but for the elite few, it is a promise of a better future. For all the kids who still treat football like “just a game” in college, they are the ones who are often described as “just a guy” come draft day whose name doesn’t get read by the commissioner.
It is a microcosm for life, really. Each day you become more and more aware of how very little you really do know. With each new concept you grasp and retain in your brain, you push an old understanding out…or at least you archive it. You know how when you are talking to someone and you happen to veer into a topic that you once knew a lot about, but are so far removed from that time the answer to a question doesn’t come to you until about an hour to half day later? That’s the archive service of your brain at work.
Anywho, I do wonder if any of you (my fellow zoners and Cowboys fanatics) had a belief at one point in your football-watching-career that you look back now on and have to laugh by how unbelievably wrong you were. We’re all friends here…kinda…should make for a fun topic to discuss.
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