My brotha

Growing up as a kid i was the youngest of three kids in my family. My brother is seven years older than me and everything he did i wanted to do, everything he got i wanted to get. I was that annoying younger brother. Whether it was for the good or bad, he influenced me to the person i am today more than anything.

At a young age i watched my brother playing all kinds of sports and i watched him excel in them. Although i didnt really have a choice of playing sports, there was nothing i wanted to do more than to be able to play sports like my brother did. Him being seven years older than me, i never really had the chance to participate in anything with him. Therefore, because of that at the age 8 that honestly was my biggest dream.

As i got older it seemed like he influenced me in every way possible. As much as my mom hated it, when he was listening to rap and things that an 8 year old shouldn't be listening to, i only wanted to go onto limewire and download that music. When he got a blow out, even though i was only 12 i wanted to get one.

Everything he did i wanted to do. But as i got older and became my own person i began to learn a lot of important things. I love my brother to death, but no matter what it is important to find out who you are and not let other people influence you completely. I was a young kid and it is common for younger siblings to want to be like their older siblings. I learned a lot from my brother, good and bad, and it is because of him that i am my own person today and i do things that i want to do.

Season Coming To And End

As my fantasy dream team has dominated all season, let all my worst nightmares happen at the end of the season. After starting my season 8 and 0, as any good NFL team has seen, injuries plagued my team. After 13 weeks and the end of the regular season, i ended in SECOND place at 10 and 3 after leading the league all the way up until the last game...

Early in the season i dealt with a big injury of MJD, Maurice Jones Drew, one of my top running backs. I was able to bounce back and i picked up Andre Brown from the Giants. Although he was not the top running back according to depth charts, i had high hopes for him.

So here i am going into the playoffs. Andre Brown is on IR, my replacement for him, Larod Stephens-Howling had bruised ribs, and i am left to try and pick up a last minute Free Agent to save my season. This week luckily i have a bye, but after that in week 15 i will need Drew Brees to have his best game of the season, after throwing 5 picks last game. I need the 49ers to keep rolling and giving the ball to Frank Gore, and most importantly, my Texans D needs to keep playing lights out.

All that together could potentially be the winning recipe that will not only lead to me a nice lump sum of cash.... but also bragging rights against all the Delt boys in my league. After taking all their heat for how shitty my team was during the draft and preseason, i show them who is number one.

The Jets

Any sports fan will be able to take this blog to heart. 

What to do when your favorite team is not good.

The Jets over the past years have not been as successful as any fan has wanted. Going back to when Eirc Mangini was coach, the Jets were a promising team. After taking over the for great Herm Edwards, Mangini led the Jets to a 10-6 start behind chad pennington and clinched a playoff birth by winning the wildward. Although they did not go far, after making the playoffs, there was high hope for the next season. So when the next season came, the jets went 4 and 12. What a disappointment!! after such a great season before that, they straight blew it. The next season had the same expectations and the season before. Although they had a bad season, we loved to believe that this was our year, after starting the season hot at 8 and 3, the jets collapsed and didnt make the playoffs.

The next reign was the big bad Rex Ryan. Rex the big mouth he was gauranteed alot to the fans of the jets. In his first two seasons he led them to the afc championshop game, both times losing just short of the final game of the season. the year that followed that dealt with many injuries and had a bad season, and this season seems to be another repeat. 

Each time the jets hire a new coach, it seems to be the coach of the future, the coach that is supposed to take them to the promise land. But each continue to fall short, and in the same pattern have a bad season till they are fired. 

As a loyal jet fan i am calling to the football gods...... WHEN WILL MY JETS WIN THE SUPERBOWL?!

Thanksgiving sports story

Up until my family and i picked up and moved to new york, we always had a traditional four on four touch football game in the afternoon before dinner. the game consisted of my dad, brother, two uncles, three cousins, and me. Being the youngest out of my siblings and cousins, i was always trying my hardest to stand out while playing with the older guys. Striving to be the fastest and have the ball thrown to me as much as posible so i could get a touchdown was how i played the game.

What was intended to be a friendly game of football, never ended up that way. Almost always i would try to fight my older brother by the end, and usually ended with someone being cut up and some serious grass stains on clothing.

It was the year before we moved, so 2007, when we were playing to 6 and my team had five. my uncle told me to go long and beat my cousin down the sideline, so beat him i did. at the sound of hike, i put my head down and didnt look up until right before the endzone. i looked up and saw the ball, a little out of my immediate reach, i extended fully in the air to make the grab. In the air, i grabbed the ball and prepared myself to hit the ground. As my body made contact with the ground, so did my wrist, except my wrist bend a certain way it shouldnt have. What eventually lead up to a fractured wrist  was a horrible way to end the last touch football game we would play because i dropped the ball that play and we ended up losing.

Thanksgiving memory

In my household, Thanksgiving was always a big deal. My mom, the typical italian she is, loved to cook dish after dish for all of my family members. Each year finding new recipes and hounding us to find out if she should make it next year, whether or not we liked it. My family has been through alot and my dad always emphasized to us kids that no matter what we have, nice or shitty car, little shack or a mansion on the beach, to always be thankful for what you have been given. In my fathers eyes, nothing in this world is guaranteed and you should always be grateful.

When thinking about a thanksigivng in particular, my memory brings me back to one holiday when i was around the age of 12, living in south florida. Severe thunderstorms throuhgout the area consumed most people's attention. News and media coverage was all centered on how devastating the storm was. We had just finished dinner and my grandmother from Peru was in visiting out family. 

We had just finished dinner and were about to have some desert and sit around our table and talk when the power went out. From having light illuminating the entire house, with the echoes of thunder throughout my living room, the kitchen went black. With her thick spanish accent, all my grandma had to say was "fuck".

That is a moment that i will never forget. 

Ad buster

Dwight a hero? Could be far from it. Although he did not demand the media hype and attention when leaving his team in Orlando, he did not handle the situation right. Telling the management that he did not want to play for Van Gundy, he got his coach fired, and then still was an unhappy and did not want to play there. In front of the media, although he tried to play it off as if he did not say that, his sarcasm and demeanor towards Van Gundy publicly made Dwight look like a ungrateful drama queen that cannot be satisfied.

Yes, Lebron handled the situation incorrectly when leaving Cleveland  but people do make mistakes and the greater importance is how they act after the fact and if they learned a lesson. Lebron, after the horrible reaction, well deserved, from the Cleveland fans, at first was all about proving all the "haters" wrong and standing out. He would then lose in the finals in his first season with the Heat giving all the haters what they wanted; to see him fail. In the season after that, Lebron made it known that he changed his outlook on the game. No longer was it about proving people wrong and making a statement, for him it was all about playing as best as he can and trying his hardest to put himself and his team in a position to win. He has said in postgame interviews that whatever happens happens, as long as he gave a 110% he would have zero regrets. A complete turn around from what his outlook on the game was a year ago, Lebron seemed to have matured greatly in just one season.

Potentially, my ad buster can contain something to do with politics because i can allude to how most people of class can play golf. I really am not sure where else to go with this but i am thinking i need to talk about maybe a golf course at camp david the presidential retreat and show how previous presidents have gone on golf outings and played at golfing events.