Every Year

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I seem to approach each Fall with some reservations when it comes to college or even pro football.  I say to myself that the game is just too dangerous.  I never wanted my kids to play football.  I was close to the sport in high school and saw a lot of injuries and taped an awful lot of ankles.  I knew the sport was dangerous back then.  It might be safer now, but still there are a lot of injuries in football on every level.  Just don't get me started on how the college referees show favoritism.  I think the referees in the college championship games actually are paid to throw games.

But this brings me to last night.  ESPN was willing to go back to the game, when it was evident neither team wanted to continue when Damar Hamlin seemed to have suffered a heart attack after he made a tackle that has been made similarly already a dozen times in the first quarter of the Monday Night football game between the Buffalo Bill's and the Bengals.  Many this morning are questioning the legitimacy of football all together.  

I have questioned the legitimacy of football going back to my high school days, but still while I say every year I will give up watching football I get caught up in the hype and still watch it.  And I know a cardiac arrest can happen to most anyone at any given time.  But we just don't expect it to happen to pro athletes while playing their chosen sport.  Last night it did.  And this morning a lot of people are questioning the value of pro football.  But it seems life will go on, but pro football is on hold right now.  Our focus is on Hamlin and his family, as well as the Bill's and pro football.  

I wish him the best and hope he recovers.  His career will come to an end now.  But we pray his life will go on.  I am always evaluating my feelings about football.  I have a perfect love/hate relationship with the sport.  On Saturday my ire was at the refs.  This morning my ire is at the violence of the sport.  Life will go on.  As to whether mine will go on with football remains to be seen.  This morning I am smoking my Willard estate pipe I received as a gift from Patty for Christmas and I have begun my morning with a bowl of Plum Pudding Special Reserve.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave

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