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Winning vs. Losing - the difference
Passing through one time
Machine Status vs. Collision Course?
We are all planning for a long weekend that is much needed, so why wait?
Let's get into some football and life.
Winning vs Losing - the difference
Why do carry our defeats around in a bag and never savor the wins like we should?
If your team wins a high school championship or beats that cross town rival, it better happen every year.
We bask in the glory for 10 or 20 hours and say “We better be in position to win the game or win the championship.". If we lose, we remember every second, every minute. The pain we felt at school, or work, I mean we pack it around for days, weeks and years.
Let me give you an example; Ask any Kentucky Basketball fan what was the worse day in UK basketball history, and it is not the day Rick Pitino left (That was my saddest day). Almost all of them would say it was the day Christian Laettner tickled the twine on a last second shot to beat the CATS back in 1992 when Kentucky played Duke. Click here to re-live that moment in time.
I know the reservation (Riverdale) lost last week, but I would hate to think what it feels like for Blackman. Blackman has not won a game since 2004. Riverdale will remember the win they took last week against McCallie and move forward from that win, they will survive , and so will the fans.
We always remember the loss, and that hurt feeling more than the joy of winning.
Think about it for a minute, it happens in everything, not just football.
Passing through one time
As life continues to change, we must remember we are all just passing through one time.
We will only be 16 years old one time. We will only be in high school one time. We will only see certain parts of the world one time. Certain tragic events will only happen one time.
Kids don’t get that when they are in high school. They get up and go to school. They dread doing homework and taking out the trash. They even dread going to practice some days. They really don’t look at things they way you and I do. When you are fast approaching 40 years old (That’ Me I am 39), it is hard to explain to them that the guys you are playing football with or any sport for that matter, will never be a group again.
The moment on the field only happens once. Anybody that is been around me has heard the 10 games, 40 quarters, 48 minutes 2880 seconds in regular season football. I mean take a look at game 3 tonight for us. When kids play this game on Friday night or when your child participates in any high school sport, please help them understand they only get to do it one time, and then it is over.
When they get older in life, that is when it will become clear that they are just passing through.
Maschine Status vs. Collision
Course?
Are we Machine Status?
Are we on Collision Course for high school championship?
I must say I am having a ball. Everybody that knows me well understands that I am nuts about this Smyrna High School Football team. These guys have been playing football since the DAY-O.
I tell people all the time the story about how my son was asked to play football by the famous Gene Carr “The Godfather of Youth Football”. I have watched, filmed, announced, almost all of this years squad at least once when they played youth football. It has been such a wonderful ride, but it is rolling fast.
The radio announcers for the zone 104.5 The Zone tonight will start discussing who is at Machine Status. The show starts around 9:15 and they web cast so you can listen from all over the world.
I love to hear Murphy Fair run down of all the scores and highlights. Coaches who talk winning and plan to win usually do. If you go back and listen to radio coaches shows of winners they stress winning, they live to win.
One of my favorite coaches is Howard Schnellenberger
Why? He believed he was going to win all the time, here is his bio:
Birth name
Howard Leslie Schnellenberger
Trade mark
His mustache.
Trivia
Football coach.
Assistant coach for the University of Kentucky (1959-60), University of Alabama (1961-65), Los Angeles Rams (1966-69) and Miami Dolphins (1970-72, 1975-78). Head coach for the Baltimore Colts (1973-74), University of Miami (1979-83), University of Louisville (1985-94), University of Oklahoma (1995) and Florida Atlantic University (2001-present). He also is the athletic director of FAU. In addition, Schnellenberger accepted an offer to coach an unnamed Orlando team in the United States Football league but the team folded before playing a game.
Started the football program at Florida Atlantic University.
Assistant coach of the University of Alabama's 1961, 1964 and 1965 national championship teams. Assistant coach of the Miami Dolphins' 1972 Super Bowl championship team - the only undefeated team in the National Football League since that league began using playoffs to determine its champion. Head coach of the University of Miami's national championship team.
Upon accepted the head coaching position at the University of Oklahoma, he boldly predicted that movies would be made and books written about the triumphs ahead. The team's media guide in Schnellenberger debut season at UO - 1995 - was 396 pages long and was mailed in boxes rather than envelopes. But the Sooners finished the season 5-5-1, their worst record in 30 years, and Schnellenberger resigned shortly afterward under intense pressure to do so.
Met his wife, Beverlee Donnelly, when he played for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League and she was a cheerleader for that team.
Personal quotes
"We're on a collision course with the national championship."
(He makes this statement about every school he coaches.)
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/sports/15385932.htm
Even just recently in the link above you will see where Howard once again is referenced he is on a collision course to win the national championship.
In the words of Coach Schnellenberger I want to be the first to say:
“Smyrna is on collision course for the 5A championship”
That's A Wrap
I have bored you enough; we travel to Wilson Central tonight for a 7:30 kick off.
This weekend I am heading to Leitchfield Kentucky, my hometown, for my 20th high school reunion,
Grayson County High School, home of the fighting Cougars. The old orange and blue, high school friends from the past have been emailing all week, it ought to be fun and memorable.
Thanks, and give a shout or a wave if you see me at the game.
Until next week...God Bless and Take Care
From Behind The Lens.
The Stork
“A man who truly delivers”
Football Stars For Tomorrow - www.storkmontgomery.com
Sunday, September 03, 2006
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