Was it worth it?

A question that I have heard numerous times over the last 2 days. Most likely you have been asked this question or even asked yourself this question (maybe as you are falling in and out of sleep while driving home from a sleepless night). I've worked 14 hours on sundays for about a year now and it really isnt too bad after you get started, it even gives me an extra day off. So I dont mind working all day sunday, but it gets tough if you dont get any sleep the nights before. I wont give out the specefic details, so that I dont get yelled at, but I arrived at broski's house friday and we immediatley took to the tennis court to obliterate some chikas that thought they could handle yours truly. After we had dispossed of the "brats" we took to wingstop then went back to the house to play some pong, which I am amazing at. The night flew by and everyone went home at 4 am. Through all the rain and exploding thunder I was able to sleep like a baby, even though my skinny butt froze. Woke up around 10 and with 6 hours of sleep I accompanied broski to eat and watch some quality college basketball. I wont get on my soapbox about my bracket since I agree with my dad that real experts cant predict "March Madness" but I will say that my champion, West Virginia, and somebody elses champion has already lost, Kansas. lol sorry just had to point that out again. But back to the question of was it worth it, you usually ask this as you are going through a rough next day after doing something the day/night before. I didn't have to drive 8 hours home, which I have decided I would rather work 14 hours than sit in a car for 8 hours through the snow. But knowing before what was going to be ahead the next day I stayed up Saturday night and drove back home at 10 on Sunday. I arrived in Mansfield a little after 11 and went to work at 12. The drive home was a blur since I was drifting in and out of sleep, but the work day was even worse because I had to figure out a way to stay awake and keep my speech from slurring. So I tried to stay awake by texting some of my friends and was asked by some of them, "Was it worth it?" and my answer for all was yes, except broski's his was only Hell YA! And I stand by that and say hell ya it was worth it.

Tim Tebow

I want to take a moment to speak of the football player, college and professional, that is glorified and sometimes referenced in the same breath as Jesus. While some may say that he is the greatest player to ever play in college football and some even say that he will be the greatest player to ever play in professional football, which would make him the greatest player to ever play the game. I have known about Tim Tebow since his senior year in high school, I am not saying that I knew Tebow just that I has known who he was, since he was being recruited by Mike Shula and Alabama. Tebow commited to Alabama initially and then a little before signing day decommitted on a visit at Tuscaloosa, along with Brandon Spikes. That day was a sad day for me, I thought at the time, because Alabama had lost the #1 overall recruit and a quaterback that would have changed the Alabama football team for the next couple of years. But poor Mike Shula didn't land him, rather Tim Tebow committed to Florida. Since then Tim Tebow has gone on to impress anybody that has followed college football, especially those in the media, and has drawn a larger crowd to the sport. For that I thank Tim Tebow, but for those who think that he is a good football player, which I don't have much experience in, I think that you are crazy. I mean I never played football and never went through what he went through to become what he is but all of the "experts" say that he isnt a sound quaterback and wont be a good quaterback in the future. So I will let their research stand here for the arguments sake. But the main part that I wanted to mention is what I saw on December 5, 2009 and have seen in prior incidents that Tim Tebow has played in a game and lost, which has only happened 7times. Now the fact that Tim Tebow has only lost 7games in a span of 4 seasons is pretty remarkable, but being an Alabama fan and apart of the I hate Tim Tebow fan club, I try to look into those loses and see something else. Because I believe that how we deal with adversity is how we define ourselves and find out who we truly are. Tim Tebow has come back and won plenty of games while dealing with adversity, but in three of the seven loses, that I know of, Tim Tebow has broken down and cried. Now after the first loss that he was "shown" crying in I was able to put it behind me and realize that it was the first time and that hopefully it wouldnt happen agian, that he would learn from that hideous showing and never cry again. But silly Tim Tebow did not, he merely did it again, this time in a press conference, after the Ole Miss loss in 2008. But the Tears of Tebow didn't make me realize how pathetic Tim is untill the 2009 SEC championship when heavily favored Florida was dominated and Tim Tebow was silenced by my Alabama Crimson Tide. Tim Tebow was shown not just crying, but bawling on the sideline during the end of the game, then a little teary eyed at the post-game press conference. Tim Tebow has a hard time dealing with defeat, but that isn't what bothers me about him, the fact that it puts his weak self to tears is what bothers me. If you are going to be the leader of a team and considered a great motivator, you can't show weakness by breaking down and crying when something doesn't go according to plan. You have to man up and go with it, learn from what has just happened and make changes accordingly. Something I have learned in my 21 years of being alive is that sitting around and crying has never solved anything, it can even make the situation worsen. Looking at Tim Tebow bawl on the sideline made me hope that their were fathers in America that were showing their sons exactly how not to act when something doesnt go as planned and you get beat. If one day I am blessed with a son that wants to play football I want my son to look at Tim Tebow and realize that you shouldn't sit and sulk about what has just happened, but to see and learn from it. To take it like a man and make yourself better. Not even the great players win every game, they are just able to accept their loss and make themselves better from it, for adversity is only good if you can learn and become better.

P.S. I would much rather have missed on Tim Tebow and gotten Saban and had McElroy throwing Bama's passes in the championship game.
Wing Man Out!

Road Trip

I want to talk about Road Trips. Merriam-Webster defines a Road Trip as being an extended trip in a motor vehicle. I want to specifically focus on those taken in cars. While you may think that driving will limit your choices and options on the vast number of places that you can travel to, I see it as more of a challenge to be able to get to those places with a car. I am not saying that you should try to cross the Pacific Ocean in your 2001 Ford Taurus, even though that would be kind of interesting, but be creative. While trekking across the world would be fun and all, I really just want to focus on staying in this continent, mainly this country. I have been telling the legendary story of the recent Road Trip that Bro and I went on to almost anybody with capable hearing skills, and some people that don’t, and have found that nobody travels by car for long durations anymore, they would rather just fly. I answer back to those people that it is definitely more convenient, but then I ask, “Is convenient what you want?” If so then you are probably not taking a real Road Trip. You see a Road Trip involves good friends, a steady vehicle, and not knowing exactly what is going to happen when you get there. I have been on car rides with my family for the past 21 years and have realized that the more you know beforehand, the less fun you have when you actually arrive. I mean sure, I would like to know that there is somewhere for me to stay, how the weather will be, and maybe one big event that we will be attending, like the LSU vs. Arkansas game (which was awesome!). But even those aren’t necessary for the Road Trip. My vision of a Road Trip is something that is just spontaneous and you go on by the seat of your pants and make the decisions as they come (you may want to bring extra cash). But that is what makes a Road Trip, you and you friend(s) going across this great country and deciding on what to do on your way to wherever you are going. So I challenge you, my followers, to grab some friends, get together in a car and just go somewhere new. I mean sure it may cause a lot of traffic and fill a lot of hotel vacancies, but wouldn’t that help out this country a little bit? Anyways it beats the alternative, work.

Wing Man Out!

Thanksgiving Weekend '09

21 years and Thanksgiving remains my favorite holiday. Don't get me wrong, I like Christmas, 4th of July, and even Halloween. But Thanksgiving has to be the best. If you think about it and know what I like to do, I get the whole day off of work, get to watch football all day, may even play a little football, and stuff my face with some good 'ol home cooking. The thing about this years Thanksgiving had nothing, well maybe a little something, to do with the actually Thursday the 26th of November. But the day after when my bro and I set off on one of our awesome road trips. We decided to go and give our sympathy to our poor friend. Well she may not like me enough to refer to me as a friend, so lets call her Mike. You see Mike is with the enemy of the greatest football program of all time, ever! She thinks that we stole her coach, when in reality he decided to ditch the murky water's of LSU and Roll with the Tide (if you know what I mean). But differences aside, she is really nice (whether or not it is just southern hospitality) and puts up with my constant always being right. (If you follow this blog then you know that 9 times out of 8, I am always right). So she allows my bro and I to partake in this festival that occurs once a year, known as the battle of the boot. It is a football game between the LSU Tigers and the Arkansas Razorbacks. The game in itself seems a little down this year, with both teams having already lost 3 games a piece, but don't tell them that. These two teams have been waiting for this game for a whole year, well 2 for LSU who have been beaten by Arkansas the past 2 seasons. So we get to the game, after having already been to the LSU vs. Tulane game, which was still pretty awesome, but no where near as awesome as the Battle of the Golden Boot. Keep in mind that this was on Thanksgiving weekend and "some" students were still with their families enjoying the game from the warm comfort of their homes while trying to digest all the great food that they had munched down. But every time you step into Tiger Stadium, A.K.A. Death Valley, you get this adrenaline rush that just runs through you and lets you know that this game is going to be awesome! That each of these teams hate each other and they are going to hit each other hard, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC9QVZ6rW9s, and that in the end everyone will be exhausted because in rivalry games even the fans hit hard (oooo-eeee-oooo YOU SUCK!). Just imagine 92,000 Tiger fans screaming for 60 minutes. It gets a little tiring after all is done, but you don't regret any part of it. I have never spent a Thanksgiving Weekend driving 4 hours to a bar, to watch the Iron Bowl in which Alabama only needed 1:24 to beat silly Auburn, then complete the trek with another 4 hour ride through the dark into the heart of Tiger Country, were there was a competitive game of Apples to Apples, in which Badonka Donk cheated in, followed by an interesting night for all of the members of the story (my back is still stiff). Congrats were in order however the next morning for more than just OU, if you know what I mean. If you don't then you should know that Bro and I were challenged to finish off a little something that we totally took to the dumps! (Literally, but really Bro knows what I am talking about, congrats). Then we proceeded into the game where as before mentioned Bro and I experienced the greatest spectacle of any sport that we had ever been to. Then of course we took off the next morning bright and early for my followers missed and desperately needed me to return to my spot and fill their stomachs. All I can say is that it was the best Thanksgiving Weekend that I had ever had, maybe even best weekend ever. But don't just take it from me, let my Bro tell you how it was,

"I have driven 1024 miles the past three days and it was worth every single one.
great game, great friends, great weekend."

Just trust me when I say that and LSU football game, especially the one against Arkansas, is something that you must partake in and have some fun with, it is one of those once in a lifetime things. At least I hope not.

P.S.
For those who attended the game with us, got us the tickets with ID's, gave us somewhere to stay, and showed us another awesome time in Louisiana; that what Happens in Baton Rouge, stays in Baton Rouge. And Thank You abunch!


Wing Man Out!