Football Is Our Country Passion

5/26/08 – 6/1/08

Whether it’s college or professional, Football is our passion. We love seeing both small and big guys breaking tackles and using their god giving talent, to go around and up a defenders path. We love seeing a coach, making the decision, which is to go for it on forth down. We also love seeing the quarter back, being hit hard and as well as being on the ground.

All of this and more is why football is our passion. It also has become our national sport over time, as a country. Which brings me to my next point; we can’t, and repeat after me, we can not live without football.

This has been so true of lately and as recently as this past National Football League season. In which it will show, that “WE” the people of this country, made the NFL gave up and show the *Patriots * Vs Giants game on all channels and not just on their own. We are also fighting with our local cable companies on a daily bases, to have the NFL network in our area. In college football, we are fighting for a playoff format and maybe on day it will happen. We are also fighting for the truth and the whole truth into the *Patriots* investigation.


So when someone asks you what is this country passion, look them in the eye and say
” football is our passion.”
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The Patriots are now full of asterisks

5/19/08 – 5/25/08


Well it came the day we all new it would as well as wanted to come. Recently Matt Walsh handed over videos to the NFL. The videos show what most of everyone besides their own fans of course, that the patriots did in fact cheat. Not only did they cheat but they cheated as far back as 2000. In 2001 of course that is when they won their first super bowl.

Since then they have won two more. That’s make them 3-5 overall in team history during the super bowls.

So now that we know this, what should we do? Because we all know for a fact that the National Football League, will not do a thing more then they have. Well for now on when you see the word patriots, in future articles you will now see two asterisks. I know it sounds silly, but you can now say, I am doing my part.

That part is not letting go of nor forgetting what the *Patriots* have done to the NFL as a hole, as well as to a country of sports fans.

I know some (*Patriots* fans) will say, does it really matter as well as say that all NFL teams do this. My response to that would be: that you are just trying to justify your team treason like actions and at that point I would just walk away from that fan.

I say treason because the definition seems to fit perfectly as to what they did. Here is the definition: “the betrayal of a trust or confidence; breach of faith; treachery.”

The betrayal of trust and confidence seems right on for the *Patriots*. As they betrayal all fans of the National Football League besides their own of course. By compromising the integrity of this country football and that my friend is why the *patriots* are now full of asterisks.

RJINTAMPAWSA@AOL.COM

A VIKINGS GIFT OF HOPE

5/12//08 – 5/18/08

Most of you don’t know or have heard very little of this so what better way then to bring it to your attention. Kenechi Udeze who was drafted out of USC by the Minnesota Vikings with their first-round pick, 20th overall, in the 2004 NFL draft. As a rookie Udeze started in 15 games.

Although he had a serious knee injury in 2005 and missed 13 games, he came back to play in all 32 games the last two years and Last year he had five sacks. This past February however Kenechi Udeze was diagnosed with leukemia and Two weeks ago Kenechi Udeze revealed that the cancer was in remission, and that his older brother has matching bone marrow, for a pending transplant.

Leukemia is cancer of the blood cells. It starts in the bone marrow, the soft tissue inside most bones. Bone marrow is where blood cells are made. When you have leukemia, the bone marrow starts to make a lot of abnormal white blood cells, called leukemia cells. They don't do the work of normal white blood cells, they grow faster than normal cells, and they don't stop growing when they should. Over time, leukemia cells can crowd out the normal blood cells. This can lead to serious problems such as anemia, bleeding, and infections. Leukemia cells can also spread to the lymph nodes or other organs and cause swelling or pain. So as you can tell this is a very serious form of cancer and over time it can even lead to death.

Here is where the Minnesota Vikings came in to land a helping hand. As well as to send a message that “there are more important things in then football” this past Friday the Minnesota Vikings organization put Udeze on the reserve-non-football-illness list. This means that he will be ineligible to participate during the 2008 NFL season. But it guarantees him his salary for the year, which is $807,500.

This is and was a great move by the Vikings as well as to show, that when times are not going well for there players that they have what it takes. And are willing to help in anyway they can towards giving a gift of hope.

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RJ

Is Big Brown the chosen one?

Incase you haven’t heard by now, Big Brown won the 134th running of the Kentucky Derby. Saturday, Big Brown won by a 4 3/4-length of victory. This is also Big Brown Jockey, Kent Desormeaux third win at the Kentucky Derby.


Now what you don’t know is that it has been 30 years, since a winner of the Kentucky Derby, has been able make the sweep of the next two races. Those races are the Preakness Stakes, in Baltimore, Maryland and the Belmont Stakes, in Elmont, New York. If the Big Brown does win the next two races, he will be known as the champion of The Thoroughbred Racing, which is also known as winning the Triple Crown.


To win the Triple Crown, a horse has to break threw some major tough obstacle. Those obstacles include; three races in a five week span and crowds of over 100,000 plus at all three of the races, these are good reason as to why, their has only been 11 winners of the triple crown since, it started 1919.

Now the question is can Big Brown add to those stats, to make it the 12th time a horse has won the Triple Crown, as well as the first in 30 years. As always time will tell, but his next race will be the Preakness. The race is in two weeks, on the 17th. And in my view by then we will know if big brown is the chosen one or not.


RJ
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