Gators or Dead Fish?

Going into the 2 most important games of the Florida Gators season, it inspires no confidence when the head coach compares them to dead fish,  Jeezum crow, Jim, you got hired to inspire not despair.]

[Against FAU, McElwain sensed a self-defeating attitude from some players.

"When you guys go to like a sea food market or if you go to the grocery store, you see all those dead fish on ice?" he said. "That's the energy they're playing with right now. Stop by Winn-Dixie, go to the dead fish aisle and look at the fish's eyes.

"That's what bothers me."]  Emphasis added because it bothers the hell out of me too.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/florida-gators/os-gators-football-1123-20151122-story.html

Another Miracle: Gators win!

Gators make miraculous last second comeback, winning 28-27!
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Gators Win!

(Lord giveth; He taketh away, giving the state of FL 3 losses on Sunday, with a particularly rancid game. Seems He taketh A great deal but must work little gifts Given.)

Go Gators!

Have to stick w/ my team.

New Mexico St 13 - Florida 61

Sure, UF scheduled a cupcake but still great to have offensive firepower after the Muschump era ended.

My Niece Graduates!

My eldest niece Helen--and others but mostly Helen--graduating from the University of Florida, off to Austin, TX for grad school as a Longhorn.

You go, girl, a female engineer.

Fight Pediatric Cancer!

Fight pediatric cancer by entering drawing for 4 championship club box seats to watch a Florida Gator game.  Can't hardly get better than that!

Iffen y'all ain't Gator fans, enter anyway and give me the tix if y'all win.

Don't let the link less website throw you off.  It sez, "Cancer is the #1 disease killer of children in the U.S.," and looked like a link but 'tweren't.  So, goog'ed on your behalf and found that statement stated at American Childhood Cancer Institute.

So come on ever'body, writing a check easier than ice bucket challenge.  Plus, this contest at least gives us poor folk a chance to watch Gators in luxury.

 God bless y'all.

Sports of Sorts

No one knows why God in her infinite wisdom made sports and handed them down to humankind and yet theories abound.

First, sports helps people to get in and stay in shape.  Like Rule # 1 from Zombieland, cardio.  Good cardio health helps people outrun those zombie bastards and help us live longer even in normal times.  Of course, don't go overboard with it; exercise can kill you.

Next after solo sport like jogging or skiing, we have team sports.  These allow us to escape our mundane lives and identify with a concept greater than ourselves, often a college or university or perhaps pro sports

Of course, people often take things too far like Raiders fans.

'Nuff said.

Or we scream and yell in our living rooms as if that will influence outcomes of games 1000 miles away.  It also seems silly for us to wear all our game gear, putting in the aggregate millions of dollars into the maw of greedy schools supposedly concerned with student athletes and horrible graduation rates and billionaire owners of pro teams.

Nevertheless, in my time of stress--dialysis, paralysis, physiatrists and physical rehab--it helps me to root for my home team, the Florida Gators.  Sheesh, good thing life taught me to deal with soul crushing defeat before this season.

At least I have my Miami Dolphins.

What, a bullying scandal and team turmoil?  Can't a brother catch a break?

Well, at least I have my Chicago Cubs to root for for eternity.

Go Cubbies!