Boy Will Be Boys

" I really don't think our philosophies could coexist. Your team don't play the way we want to play."

Can't compromise make anything work?

I think this is a classic example of a stuborn person. Just because he does not like that the other team wants to compromise, there is no change, therefor the problem does not get solved. 

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"It's always better to be a leader then an assistant."

Is this really true?

I do not think it is. Because when you are a leader you are suppose to be a good example of what everybody should be like. When you are an assistant you take orders from the leader but you get freedoms that the leader does not. So I do not think this statment is completly true.

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"With all my expertise in coaching, we came close to winning a game."

With all the hard work that was put into the team, was it worth it knowing that they were a lot better then the year before, even though they were still not good at all?

I think this shows that some problems take time to be solved. Even with the best of us. And this team was very, very bad. So even coaching legend Jimmy Johnson couldn't solve all the problems.

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"Now that the way to end a playing career."

If your career is not as great as you want it to be but you end strong should you be happy?

I think that a good career is something that you can keep getting better at. Something challenging. 

And if you get good and end strong, you should be content.

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"The head coah lost his way. It happens to all of us the miles add up, the brain gets a tad fuzzy."

Does this happen to all of us? With everything? 

I think that eventually you loose your talent for everything. No matter how hard you try, it's gonna happen.

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"He had a great run with the Cowboys,  but it was over. It was time for a change and the owner knew that."

How did they know that the changing of a head coach would have been good for the team?

I think he saw that the new head coach they were hiring had great potential. He had to take a risk to make the Cowboys better. I think he understood that if you don't take chances, you wont have any.

Finally got my internet and my book today!

Boys Will Be Boys by Jeff Pearlman

"Thee Cowboys contained football magic. Football aura. Football greatness. Then, one day, it vanished."

What exactly did the Cowboys loose that made them not so great anymore?

Was it just because the old veterans had retired and the young stars were growing old? This shows that you have to savor every moment of the glory because it does not last forever for anyone. Everybody grows old and just can't do stuff that they use to be able to do.

QQC

This week I read Sports Illustrated magazine for my reading journal.

The quote that I found interesting was "Schemes don't win football games, PLAYER WIN football games. What he was basically saying was, it doesen't matter how you'r players are set up or what the game plan is, as long as you have better players the the other team you will win. I do not find this to be true. Most games are won and lost by the better game plan. Take the the dolphins as an example, they had only won one game in the entire 2006 season, then came back and won twelve the next season all because they had a very good scheme.

In-class reading journal

Here is the quote I chose: "although they're (the flowers) brown and flat and brittle, they remind him that even in wretched times, concern, gratitude, love and devotion to others can still live on in the heart of man." My question for the writer is, does he show these when he needs to. "in wretched times." I also want to know how to grow in these so I can be the best person I can be.

I like how he wrote this book, made it interesting, and sent out a message. He ends the book very strongly with this quotation. I think the point of most books is to get messages out. The authors that communicate their message well are the better writers. I think that H.G Wells communicated his point great.

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This book is very interesting. It takes you inside the life of an NFL player. On and off the field. During my reading I have seen the devotion of some players coming early to practice and staying late. I have also seen slacking players who show up late to practice and leave as soon as they can. The person that stays at practice the longest (Which is Michael Irvin) is the best person on the team. This goes to show who ever works the hardest, does the best.

Reading Journal

I ordered a book from the library "Boys Will be Boys" it is about the dallas cowboys football team in the 90's. But it has not arrived yet. So I decided I would read the beginning of it on google, and hopefully the book will arrive before next week. 

The book starts out saying "Michael Irving new he was screwed." I like how he jumps right into the story. Michael Irving was a great football player on the Dallas Cowboys in th 90's. The book begins saying that no one is above the law. Michael Irving stabbed his teamate in the neck because he would not let him skip ahead in the barber shop line. Irving has an explosive attitude and gets frustrated easily. In fact one time he punched a referee at a charity basketball game because he did'nt agree with his call. Anyways I did'nt get to read much but what I did read was great and I can't wait to get this book.

Book I am going to finish reading by 1/6/08

1986, George Orwell

1984

Everything is still a mystery. Winston was asking himself in the cafeteria, "did the food use to taste better". Winston said thatthere is no history. And nothing is promised for the future. Like when Big Brother said the chocolate rasion would not go down, but it did. But they made it sound like the chocolate rasion actually went up. Basically everything that Big Brother has said in the past can change.

1984

This book is very odd. The government has complete control of everything. They can make anything a "fact" and make anything exist or not exist. Like how Winston's friend Withers never existed. Nothing and nobody can be trusted. Everyone is paranoid. At Winston's job, nobody talks to each other. Winston doe not even know everybody name that works in his division. He does not even know what anybody does at his work place. All any body does is there job. They do not ask and do not tell anybody about their jobs. It is weird how "Big Brother" took control of everything.

Power from Trees

Currently a team of MIT researchers are using platinum electrodes and ficus plants to discover the truth of feeble electric currents from trees. They have come up with an answer. They state that the PH difference from between soil and the living tree is the cause of creating electric currents. Now scientists are debating over how to use this power for human benefits.

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Winston is very paranoid, he is afraid that the government is gonna arrest him. He says that the government is watching him all the time. The government own everything. Winston said "Nothing is yours except for the few cubic meters in your skull." The government controls everything, if you do something that they do not like they will kill you. Winston is afraid because he was writing bad things about the government in his diary. So Winston is hoping the government does not kill him.

1984

This part was weird. I did not really understand the two minutes of hate. Winston explained it like it was terrible, everybody was screaming, and just doing crazy things of hate. If it is really bad why do they have it on a scheduled date? That is weird.

That is all that really struck me while I was reading this part of the book, so that is the end of my post.

When Virtue Becomes Redundant

1. My favorite quote.:
"The world owes you nothing and every gift is exactly that, a gift."
I like this quote because it tells you that you have to earn everything and that you should
not expect anything to be given to you, you have to earn it. I believe in that firmly. And you should be thankful if anything at all is given to you, because you do not deserve it.

New Book, 1984 By George Orwell

Well, the book starts out interesting right from the first sentence which says, the clocks were striking thirteen.I think he was going by military time. I wonder if it is just him that goes by military time or everybody if started to. I just thought that was interesting.

In this part of the book it says that London had a war and all the streets and houses were messed up. Well it does not say that specifically but it was talking about the streets being messed up by bombs and some of the windows of houses patched up with cardboard. Winston (The only character in the book so far.) was trying to think of memories of when he was a kid hoping that there would be some of London not being so bad.

So in the book so far Winston is really struggling with lack of food and bad London also with the government watching everybody. I will get more into it later but this is the end of my post.

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Unfortunatly this is gonna be my last post on this book because I can not find a copy. I was reading a preview on google but that ran out so I reserved a book at the library that should come in by thursday. But here is my post on what I was able to read.

This is a good book but what they are trying to do in it is unheard of. The head coach of T.J's team Allen Grey is not giving T.J the money that he deserves. Grey said that he is gonna bench T.J. If I was Chet Palmer I would stop this (Chet Palmer is the general manager who commands above the head coach) you just can not bench an elite player like T.J it could potentially ruin the whole season for them. Grey is not a man that I would trust as a head coach he is doing whatever he can to keep money in his pocket even if that means destroying the offensive coordinator's scheme. He is just a very mean man.

That is all I was able to put together from what I read. Thank you for reading.