Oooooo! You Done Did It Now!
I'm an athlete. recruited in two sports in college, football and track, and later on I coached some of the top young athletes in the country and internationally. One thing I know, is that you never, ever overlook the heart factor in your opponent. It's the quickest way to an upset. It's similar to unintended consequences or biting off more than you can chew, and it's coming like a freight train right to your front door.
I'll give you an example. At the end of a game, during an interview, an obviously excited athlete makes a statement like, "I knew we were going to win. It was inevitable. We were the better team, and they just couldn't compete with us." It all harmless right? Well I guarantee, the very next day, that article will be cut from the newspaper and plastered on every wall of every corner of the locker room. Clips from that interview will be played over and over and over and over and over (do you get what I'm saying?) and over again in video sessions for the next year. Why? To stir up passion, and resolve and a oneness of purpose in your team. I will also guarantee that the next time these two teams meet, the team that has been slighted will show up with a chip on their shoulders and fire on their backside.
If you've got a savvy coach, you also leak it to the fans. Fans are great. They identify with your team and the hard work they've put in. The team's pain is their pain, your loss their loss, and your victory, their victory. When game time rolls around, you've got tens of thousands of people all with single purpose in mind and in heart, to defeat their foul speaking opponent and to feed you those words back, letter by letter. (Man it's easy to slide back into those football days.)
Still not getting it? Well let me show you what it looks like in non-athletic terms. Some possibly well-meaning but ill-advised people got together and decided that they were going to illegally vote and take away the rights of American citizens by passing a ban on gay marriage and or gay adoption in California, Arizona and Florida. They defeated a younger, less-experienced team, and in their exuberance made statements like, "You're not worthy of Marriage," "Your not worthy of adoption," even a few "God hates fags," were thrown in there.
Well we as a community have figuratively cut that article out of the paper and plastered it on every corner of the locker room. We are replaying it at every film screening and practice. We are pulled together with passion, and resolve, and oneness of purpose. It was this act of bigotry that has done for our community what we had yet to be able to do ourselves: forget about the caste systems, and social divides and move together with one purpose and one heart.
The younger players have learned from this defeat. We are not defeated, but strengthened in our resolve, and we've even got a bit of experience behind us now. Not too mention, our fans have come to our side. Those in the straight community, in religious and faith communities have come together in solidarity, and we've ALL got a chip on our shoulder. Equality, justice and freedom are what this country was founded on, even if it hasn't always played out in the way we conduct ourselves. Regardless of whether it hasn't always been a level playing field, we Americans have at least always had a field of which to play. It's called the Constitution of the United States of America (not to mention the various state constitutions.) I guarantee we will play this game again, as early as March of 2009, and I'm telling you there's a chip on our shoulders and a fire on our backsides.
You want a lil taste of what it's going to be like? well it looks a little something like this:
I'll give you an example. At the end of a game, during an interview, an obviously excited athlete makes a statement like, "I knew we were going to win. It was inevitable. We were the better team, and they just couldn't compete with us." It all harmless right? Well I guarantee, the very next day, that article will be cut from the newspaper and plastered on every wall of every corner of the locker room. Clips from that interview will be played over and over and over and over and over (do you get what I'm saying?) and over again in video sessions for the next year. Why? To stir up passion, and resolve and a oneness of purpose in your team. I will also guarantee that the next time these two teams meet, the team that has been slighted will show up with a chip on their shoulders and fire on their backside.
If you've got a savvy coach, you also leak it to the fans. Fans are great. They identify with your team and the hard work they've put in. The team's pain is their pain, your loss their loss, and your victory, their victory. When game time rolls around, you've got tens of thousands of people all with single purpose in mind and in heart, to defeat their foul speaking opponent and to feed you those words back, letter by letter. (Man it's easy to slide back into those football days.)
Still not getting it? Well let me show you what it looks like in non-athletic terms. Some possibly well-meaning but ill-advised people got together and decided that they were going to illegally vote and take away the rights of American citizens by passing a ban on gay marriage and or gay adoption in California, Arizona and Florida. They defeated a younger, less-experienced team, and in their exuberance made statements like, "You're not worthy of Marriage," "Your not worthy of adoption," even a few "God hates fags," were thrown in there.
Well we as a community have figuratively cut that article out of the paper and plastered it on every corner of the locker room. We are replaying it at every film screening and practice. We are pulled together with passion, and resolve, and oneness of purpose. It was this act of bigotry that has done for our community what we had yet to be able to do ourselves: forget about the caste systems, and social divides and move together with one purpose and one heart.
The younger players have learned from this defeat. We are not defeated, but strengthened in our resolve, and we've even got a bit of experience behind us now. Not too mention, our fans have come to our side. Those in the straight community, in religious and faith communities have come together in solidarity, and we've ALL got a chip on our shoulder. Equality, justice and freedom are what this country was founded on, even if it hasn't always played out in the way we conduct ourselves. Regardless of whether it hasn't always been a level playing field, we Americans have at least always had a field of which to play. It's called the Constitution of the United States of America (not to mention the various state constitutions.) I guarantee we will play this game again, as early as March of 2009, and I'm telling you there's a chip on our shoulders and a fire on our backsides.
You want a lil taste of what it's going to be like? well it looks a little something like this:
and this: Mormon Church Being Probed by California Fair Elections Commission.
and this: Second Florida Judge Rules Against Gay Adoption Ban
and this: Please Cut the Crap!
Oooooooooo. You done did it now! 
Posted by Justice Calo Reign at Friday, December 05, 2008 2:07 AM 
Categories: Equality,Universal Consciousness
Categories: Equality,Universal Consciousness
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