O1 NFL SCHEDULE

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Just a few days ago, the 2012 NFL schedule was released. Now I do know that this is a very difficult job and it takes months and months of hard work to put this schedule together. It clearly is a hard task to make the NFL schedule as it can be to make any schedule. I know someone very close to me makes a high school football schedule and the stress he goes through just doing that is ridiculous. He always gets tons of complaints, but that just comes with the job. Now this is just in high school. In the NFL, I really cannot imagine how stressful this job is. After reading this article, I realized some points that I didn’t even think about before. One of which is that every NFL team sends in 70 dates and times that are bad because of events going on in their stadium. Then the NFL has to deal with holidays and what not which also creates a lot of work. Also, they have to make sure the best match ups are at the right time and point in the season. On top of that each team has to end the year with a game against a division opponent so the NFL has to have that in place. Starting this year, each team is guaranteed at least one Thursday night game. So after all this anyone can see this is a very stressful job and people should think twice before complaining. I will be honest, before I read this article I was complaining quite a bit. My big complaint was that the Bills didn’t get more night games. This off season they went out and made these huge moves which will make them compete with the best. They always come ready to play on prime time. And the Buffalo fans always make it an interesting game when it is at night. I think the Bills deserved a Monday night game before the Kansas City Chiefs, my god. But after thinking about the situation more, I should shut up and just understand how hard this is.

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My father is a man that works his hardest for the best opportunity possible for others. He is also the man that never gets the credit he deserves in my life. I would say he probably gets overlooked more than anybody.  I look at who I am as a person today, and I know I wouldn’t be anything near what I am now if it wasn’t for my father. Let me start off by saying how he has raised me.  He has taught me to be a person that is built of toughness, honesty, hard work, respect, and a caring attitude. I think about all the things that I do, and I sometimes wonder what in my life drove me to be like this. Without a doubt, it is my father and my mother for that matter. I credit much of my character and who I am to my father without question. I know if it wasn’t for him I would be half the man I am now, if that. I could go on and on forever for how much both of my parents have had a huge role in developing my character. Switching from character to sports now, I also have so much to say about my father. In football especially, I have always said if you have a father that can teach you the basics to the game you are extremely lucky. With that being said, I’m not sure there is a word to describe how lucky I am to have my father with his football knowledge. Let’s face it, I was taught what a cover 2 defense was in fourth grade. It is little things like that that just make me say wow and realize I am so fortunate. My father was a very successful football coach for a long time and because of how hard he worked to learn the game, I have benefited. That is one area where I know I am at a huge advantage. Once again I could go on and on here about my father in this topic. In baseball, I also can’t even begin to say how much of an impact he has had on me. Last year I went into the slump of all slumps and I had absolutely no reason to believe in myself. I really can’t explain how bad of a slump I was in. It seemed as if any advice anyone gave to me, it just would not work at all. When I finally had a free week end, my father spent a whole day of his of his own time trying to help me. He looked at hitting films from when he was a coach and he put me through a series of drills. Even though I didn’t have much of a reason to believe, he gave me a little hope. Luckily enough for me, only a little hope was all I needed. I broke out of my slump and hit a home run off the best pitcher in Western New York. That was simply because of my father. Even this year I would say I am hitting the ball pretty good. Knock on wood, hopefully this stays that way.  But, I would say a major reason for why I am hitting good is because of my hitting mechanics which is all of my father’s work. I really could go on and on about this blog, but unfortunately it is 10:30 at night and I’m tired. Both of my parents have had an incredible influence on my life, and I wouldn’t want to live for any other parents.

J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS! Way to Go, o3

Really!? I have to say that the Peyton Manning signing was absolutely great for our beloved Buffalo bills. The first reason is because some of the teams that were interested in Mario Williams were wasting their time going after Peyton. This also helped the Bills because Tim Tebow was now on the market. He would go on to end up in the Big Apple. I love every bit of this because it is going to make the Jets worse. People in Buffalo should be thrilled about Tebow becoming a Jet. Now, I am going to take this time to bash Rex Ryan because he deserves it. Here the Jets are as a Superbowl contender every year; they already have a quarterback that may be good enough to win a Championship. Now if they went out and got someone that that is a stud quarterback I would understand, but they went out and got a quarterback that is not capable of winning the big game in the eyes of many. The only thing this does for the Jets is create more drama in their locker room. I love it! This was such a stupid move by Rex Ryan and the Jets organization. Tebow brings along a huge group of obnoxious fans that will make this situation worse. The first bad pass that Mark Sanchez throws; the only thing you will here is the crowd chanting “Tebow!” Believe me when I say there is more bad to come out of this than there is good. Maybe Tebow will bring some qualities to the Jets that will help them, but by no means do I think he will have a drastic impact. He may make a big play here and there, but the Jets made a mistake on this one. And when the Jets come across the Bills, I don’t think Tebow will be doing much of anything when he comes face to face with Mario Williams.