[Football1]

I love the game. I hate the game.
- Love it when it is the glue that binds community to young men who work hard to achieve their best results.
- Hate it when the center attraction becomes the violence and scoreboard - both necessary but neither serve the greater purpose.
- Love seeing a Senior take cocky freshmen under his wing to teach him humility and concern for team.
- Hate seeing Leadership become the excuse for picking on people and making their lives worse instead of better.
- Love a great comeback. Down 3 TD's or a knee injury - football is the perfect canvass to see perseverance and determination lived out.
- Hate the constant criticism of players and coaches by whomever for whatever with no regard for how it impacts.

The NFL is the highest rated source of TV revenue on the planet. The game has an almost mystical draw to it when it is done well. But when it becomes what it was last Friday - it is a cesspool that reinforces only the negative we all detest. Bell scored more points but nobody really won anything. When a game becomes an event that strains and even destroys relationships, puts communities at odds, and teaches young men the very things we are trying to eliminate - it ceases to have value and should not be repeated.