Let The Games Begin...

 
For the most part, the NFL Lockout 2011 is over!!  Hallelujah, thank the good Lord that we can get back to work!  I am so happy that everyone came to an agreement now before it got worse.  Training camp opens Thursday up at St. Vincent! I know the players are ready to kick down the doors at training camp and get this started!  I know people want to celebrate and I'm hoping that nothing bad happens between now and training camp!  I'm sure that Mike Tomlin will do damage control immediately with some unfortunate events with our beloved Steelers and keep all other negative publicity at bay.

Everyone needs to focus on moving forward and not backtrack at all.  I'm hoping that this season will be the best season to date because of the fear that was looming over not having a season at all.  I think fans will be bursting through the gates come gameday and will probably be tailgating the night before out of excitement.  After all, people were trying to tailgate for Roethlisberger's wedding this past weekend! 

I've read that some people are concerned with his new marriage status and that it could affect his job.  Maybe it will make him better since he won't have to focus on an extra curricular activities and keep him on track and out of trouble.  But he does seem to do better when the cards are stacked against him.  We shall see....

I wonder if Harrison will be fined or suspended at all in Goodell's first week out of the lockout?  I'm sure there will be some repercussion for what he said in his Men's Health article.  Will Hines Ward have any impending fines or suspensions for his DUI?  Or maybe Goodell will just let Tomlin handle it internally and let the past be the past and move forward...

I'm so happy to ask... ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL??????

The NFL Boredom Epidemic

NFL players got no jobs, getting arrested, James Harrison is bashing the commissioner and teammates, our PETS HEADS ARE FALLING OFF!!!

The common denominator, in my opinion, is simple: these guys are bored and frustrated.

It's completely understandable.  Think about it.  For most of these guys lives, they have been compeltely structured around football.  Eat, breath, sleep football.  They have a routine, coaches, trainers, teammates that all are focused on the same thing, day in and day out.  It's kind of like messing up the schedule of a child.  And NO I'm not calling grown men children, I'm just using a reference.

When a child's life is upset by their family moving, career change, divorce, or any major life changing event, they tend to act out.  They cause drama, get in trouble, whatever it takes to get your attention.  I think, again in my opinion, that the guys are going through the same thing.  They don't have their coaches or normal trainers to go to.  They can't even go "home" (field, practice facilities).  So they have to try to come up with their own routine.  It's not the same as they knew life to be for all the previous years before.  So they are going to mess up when they are frustrated and act out.  After all, who isn't frustrated with the way things are going.  Mommy and Daddy can't come to an agreement and all we want to do is get back to our normal lives!

So we've had our problems with a few players recently...