Hey, bloocrab!
Thanks for the compliments, and i have landed some nice feesh on wood, although i do prefer bait. interestingly, my persuasive abilities have been documented with awards and sales records in various industries my whole life. just am not a fan of the dishonesty behind "most" sales positions........................
However, i will respectfully disagree with your MikeP and Raider Ronnie analogies being applied to my situation. since i never reely had a home team, being raised in SOONER Country. i know that it is difficult to understand, if ya have'nt lived it. it is true that i chose the redskins at an early age and that they were the team of my childhood. so, in that case you have a point and i will concede to some degree of disloyalty for switching to YOUR Patriots, but when is enuff ~~ENOUGH!??!
Simply, i couldn't take it anymore!
Knowing what i know about The Game, being inundated season after season with the GREATNESS that is taking place at Foxboro, and seeing the deplorable dysfunction that has become the DEADskins it was becoming increasingly impossible for me to validate the insanity of Snyder and his dismantling of my "childhood" team. joined them in '66, so i lived thru the '72 Dolphins, the Cowboys of the '90's, and Snyder ~the early years.......................
And, NO! i will not be changing teams again, no matter where this life and my career interests take me. after all, i WAS with the Skins for 41 years, win or lose.
soooo, do ya think that the entirity of Red Sox Nation was born and bred in Boston? it is possible for one to see a team they like, root for them, and not be from that city, bloo? how else do the BRUINS become my team, since my youth. Betcha didn't know that one! and yes, i haven't been able to KNOW them like you know them ~only worshipped them from afar. that is until i moved here in '99. i am HOPEFUL that this mngmt and coach will put it all together. hated the Thorton trade.
Thanks for the spot on the proverbial bus and i was only quoting you when i referred to "my driving the bus" to SB XLIII and beyond. i am more than happy to find a seat in the rear, *stuffed in the overhead compartment, or clinging to the rooftop luggage rack!* *makes no nevermind to me, just happy to be aboard, Boss bloo...................*
As to your reference to my peerceived wanting to fit with some sort of clique, nothing could be further from the truth, although i respect your right to judge me and my posts.
if anything, i've alienated many and would be considered by most to be the least desirable to fish with. that is until you actually take the plunge and get to know me, in the surf......................
i do have a core group of guys that i surfcast with, and have met many people "out there" along the Striper Coast and have enjoyed each aquaintance immensely and am pretty sure that the experience was reciprocal, at least for the time that it was. i am an over-the-top/all or nothing sort of character and, for the most part of my life it has served me well, hurt me on far less occasions, and it is inescapable as that is what makes me who i yam and who i'll always be. with age i've mellowed, man you should've seen me in me twenties, thirties even!!!!
Thanks be to God that by His Grace, His Spirit has set me free from some of my earlier negative addictions and extremes. Thanks be to Him, as well for His Provision of our majestic shores and His Bounty that is our beloved prey!! i would be far less acceptable without Him and much more insane without this sport that we ALL require to keep us intune with God, nature, and self. HALELLUJAH, Abba Father, HALELLUJAH, Amen!!
Hope to have the opportunity to meet ya at RISAA,
i'll be the one they're pointing at while i'm talking with me hands
prolly relating some inane story about "the one that got away", or
espousing my opinion about the coming 162 games for our Hometown 9, or the Green 5, or the Black and Gold's misery, or
the possible free agents and draft picks for the Red, White, Pewter, and Blue's championship drive..............
