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		<title>Elation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 04:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you dear god. A million times, thank you. I can&#8217;t begin to express the jubilation I&#8217;m feeling after the New York Giants have pulled off what&#8217;s arguably the biggest upset in sports history. Nobody gave the Giants a chance to win this game. Luckily for me, thats the sort of thing that legends are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you dear god. A million times, thank you.</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t begin to express the jubilation I&#8217;m feeling after the New York Giants have pulled off what&#8217;s arguably the biggest upset in sports history. Nobody gave the Giants a chance to win this game. Luckily for me, thats the sort of thing that legends are made upon. I was <a title="Patriots vs Giants (part 1)" href="../blogs/crc5779/2007/12/29/horror">horrified</a> the last time the Giants played the Patriots. Tonight, I&#8217;m ecstatic</p>
<p>The entertainment news media has been in a hussey about Tom Brady the last couple of months. It&#8217;s disgusting to watch the boy-band like start treatment that&#8217;s been given to him. I can&#8217;t really say too many bad things about Tom Brady, since he&#8217;s usually not one to talk a lot of trash. However, it&#8217;s nice to see him humbled a bit after a season that&#8217;s given him and his team no reason to be humble.</p>
<p>Eli Manning&#8230;</p>
<p>Eli isn&#8217;t the greatest quarterback of all time. Eli is however, someone who under tremedous pressure, found a way to beat the Goliath of the NFL. Payton got his ring last year, and Eli get&#8217;s his this year. After everything Archie went through with the Saints, it must be amazing to watch two of his sons become Super Bowl MVPs.</p>
<p>This game was bigger than the NFL. This game was a classic example of an underdog doing the impossible. Everyone loves a Rocky tale, and February 3, 2008 will go down in history as one of the greatest stories the NFL will ever have.</p>
<p>Most importantly, my beloved Dolphins remain the only team in history to go undefeated in a season (yes the Super Bowl counts). Hats off to the Giants for doing the impossible, and giving all of the rest of us something to believe in.</p>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Never Watching Football Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 19:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know what I was thinking. I&#8217;ve voluntarily kept myself away from football for over a decade now. Actually, make that closer to 15 years. Somehow I let myself &#8216;get back in the game&#8217;. That was a big mistake for me. When I was 14, I was at my mom&#8217;s house for thanksgiving, watching [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t know what I was thinking. I&#8217;ve voluntarily kept myself away from football for over a decade now. Actually, make that closer to 15 years. Somehow I let myself &#8216;get back in the game&#8217;. That was a big mistake for me.</p>
<p>When I was 14, I was at my mom&#8217;s house for thanksgiving, watching a football game, I had hyped up for months prior. In short, my team lost, in an embarrassingly close game.</p>
<p>When I freaked out afterward (what I had done countless times prior) my mother told me to calm down. That only turned my relentless anger towards her. I have to apologize to her even to this day, for the hurtful, terrible things I said to her that day.</p>
<p>Fast forward to today. A few friends of mine over at <a href="http://nfistudios.com/">NFi</a> got me interested in <a href="http://ucf.edu/">UCF</a> football again. I kept interest, especially after we nearly toppled Texas in our opening game for our new stadium. For a while it was a welcome interest. That while was short lived.</p>
<p>The last few weeks have proved to be more than I can bear. With back to back heart breaking losses for UCF, and Florida, I&#8217;ve had to hold back that same overflow of emotion that caused me to hurt my own mother years ago.</p>
<p>No more.</p>
<p>Some folks are addicted to beer, drugs, sex, gambling. Not me, I&#8217;m addicted to winning football. When I don&#8217;t win, I&#8217;m a dangerous guy. It would probably be less of an issue if I was a smaller guy. However, I&#8217;m 270lbs, and I routinely bench-press better than 315lbs, and dead-lift well over 405lbs. So when I lose control of my temper, the consequences can be severe.</p>
<p>It sucks to know that something is just too much for me to handle, but football really just is a far too dangerous temptation for me. I&#8217;ll leave the commentary up to <a href="http://alexrudloff.com/">Alex.</a> He&#8217;s really good at it.</p>
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