My Soft Side.

I usually don't get caught up with emotion much. There is usually a time and place to catch a man getting a lil' choked up. After reading this upbeat story, I couldn't help myself.

Even though this is a scenario set up among two teams, the reward outweighs that immensely. It takes you a step back from the competition and superficial life, and it puts events like having a fine young person who happens to have Down's Syndrome score a touchdown into a great perspective. It is moments like these the define everyone involved from the players, coaches, and parents. I applaud the fine men and women who took a simple gesture that meant the world to this young lad.

Football, Sportsmanship, and Hope

The Gift of Hope

A very inspirational story. A football team elects to play a correctional facility football team in Texas. The teams fans were motivated by the coach to cheer for the youth on the other side who many do not have parents or never had many fans in the stands for them.

I love stories like this. It goes to show that a little bit of hope and faith go along way to helping even those in the most dire situations. This is very fitting on the Eve of Christmas. What can you do to make someone who is in the pit of despair feel just a little uplift in life?