Joe The Coach; My View Of Sports

Once again I really don't know where to start; the high schools in the area are done with football and are gearing up now for basketball,wrestling and volleyball, along with swimming, so there is not much to write about in high school at the moment. I am sure that students are working hard to get ready for the competition ahead -- the Parma area has hard-working kids.

Let's start with the NBA: does anybody care? Once again, we have millionaires trying to come to terms with contracts and the splitting of money. I guess this is a prime example of greed. Those going back and forth have no idea what to do with their millions. Don't you wish you had that problem? Most of us have trouble making ends meet in our Parma mansions. I personally don't care if the pros play any games this year. If they settle they will make more money, causing the owners to make more, causing seat prices to go up for us, the average fans. I wouldn't pay it last year and I won't pay it this year. According to this morning's PD, LeBron and Wade and some of the others want to form a team and play games against our area universities; if I were those schools, I would tell them to go play in Siberia. I am perfectly content to watch Cleveland State, Akron U., and Kent State, where the kids are playing for nothing but their school and their hearts. I will try to watch as many college games as possible. When the NBA doesn't play, it opens the stations for more collegiate games.

Now let's go on to pro football. I think our new coach is trying to turn things around here in Cleveland, but it will take time. I wish he was more strict than what he seems to be when he is interviewed. Let's face it, we need an offensive line or a remake, because McCoy doesn't get time to throw. The few backs we have had a hard time running in the holes because they are not there. I am really upset with Hillis; I thought he was really going to be tough, but it doesn't look like it. I played every down in Division 1, on defensive middle linebacker, and on offensive guard or fullback. Heck, we didn't know what a pulled muscle was, or a cut; we were stitched on the field. As for concussions, I think they are nothing to fool with. I am sure that I had many playing football and wrestling. I told my wife that I want my brain to go to science so they can study what happens and what is left years later. Her patent answer is that I never had a brain, so what can they find? [LOL] Sometimes we must play with some pain, but I don't want anyone permanently injured and be in a walker like me. But yes, moms, I wouldn't change a thing and I would do it all again.

Let's change the subject to Penn State; shame on them for ever letting this occur in the first place!

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