TEAM SPORTS, EH.

SO, A FEW PEOPLE AT WORK HAVE ASKED ME IF I WATCH FOOTBALL.  I'VE GOTTEN THIS QUESTION, MORE THAN ONCE, AND IT SEEMS TO SHOCK PEOPLE IN A WAY.  NOT LIKE, SHOCK SHOCK, WHERE PEOPLE GASP AND SCREAM, BUT, SURPRISE.  YEAH SURPRISE IS PROBABLY A BETTER WORD.  I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS, BECAUSE I'M A GUY, BECAUSE I'M FROM TEXAS, BECAUSE I'M FROM DALLAS, BECAUSE I'M HISPANIC?  WHATEVER IT IS, PEOPLE ASSUME I'M INTO FOOTBALL, BUT, I'M NOT.  I WAS, WHEN I WAS YOUNGER.  I ACTUALLY PLAYED FOOTBALL IN HIGH SCHOOL, AND AT THE TIME, THE DALLAS COWBOYS WERE DOMINATING THE SPORT.  SO, YEAH, I LIKED FOOTBALL AT ONE POINT IN MY LIFE.  AFTER HIGH SCHOOL, CAME ART SCHOOL....AND DRUGS, WHICH KINDA SHIFTED MY FOCUS AWAY FROM ANYTHING SPORT RELATED.  AFTER ART SCHOOL, I WENT TO CALI FOR A BIT, AND WHEN I CAME BACK, I NEVER REALLY GOT BACK INTO IT AGAIN.  I GUESS MOSTLY BECAUSE, OF SOME OF THE THINGS GOING ON IN MY LIFE THEN, SORT OF, SILENCED ANY INTERESTS OUTSIDE OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING AT THAT PARTICULAR TIME.  THEN I REDISCOVERED THE U....F....C.  WHEN I WAS YOUNGER, ME AND MY DAD USED TO WATCH THE UFC VIDEOTAPES.  HE WOULD RENT THEM FROM A LOCAL HOLE IN THE WALL PLACE AND WE WOULD WATCH THEM AT HOME.  SO, FAST FORWARD TO THAT TIME, AND IT WAS LIKE OH HEEEYYYY, I REMEMBER THIS.  I WAS HOOKED.  I WAS A RELIGIOUS WATCHER, EVERY FIGHT, EVERY WEEKEND, AND IT WAS SOMETHING I LOVED WATCHING.  I TRIED GETTING INTO BASKETBALL FOR A BIT, AND I DID, HOWEVER, I WORKED TOO DAMN MUCH AT THE TIME TO KEEP UP WITH THE GAMES, SO, I STOPPED WATCHING. 

THE UFC, SORT OF BECAME AN ANTHEM FOR ME.  I WAS WORKING 2 JOBS, ON MY OWN A LOT AND I FELT LIKE A FIGHTER OF SORTS, IN MY OWN LIFE.  I GRAVITATED TOWARD THE UFC, BECAUSE IT'S JUST ONE PERSON IN THAT CAGE FIGHTING, FOR WHATEVER PURPOSE, AND IT WAS UP THAT FIGHTER TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.  THEN, THE WRESTLERS CAME IN, AND THE UFC BECAME BORING TO ME.  I LOVE JIU-JITSU.  I DID SOME TRAINING FOR A LITTLE WHILE, AND LEMME TELL YOU, IT'S FUN.  HOWEVER, WRESTLING, LAYING AND PRAYING AS THEY CALLED IT, WAS NOT ENTERTAINING TO ME IN THE LEAST.  SO, I GOT BACK INTO BOXING.  I ALWAYS LIKED BOXING, BUT, THE UFC WAS MORE ENTERTAINING BECAUSE OF THE NATURE OF THE FIGHTS.  THE FIGHT CONTINUED NO MATTER WHERE THE FIGHT ENDED UP.  SO, WHEN WRESTLING BECAME MORE PREVALENT IN THE SPORT, I STOPPED WATCHING SO MUCH.  NOW, IT IS A MIXTURE OF BOTH BOXING, AND MMA.  IT'S STILL ABOUT THE FIGHTING SPORTS THESE DAYS, BECAUSE I GUESS, I STILL HAVE THE FIGHTERS SPIRIT INSIDE OF ME.  I FEEL LIKE I'M FIGHTING EVERYDAY TO MOVE UP IN THE WORLD.  YES, I KNOW, IT'S STILL SORT OF A TEAM, BUT, ONCE THESE FIGHTERS ENTER THE RING/CAGE, THEY ARE ON THEIR OWN, AND EVEN IF THE CORNER SHOUTS IN BETWEEN ROUNDS OR FROM OUTSIDE THE RING/CAGE, IT IS UP TO THE FIGHTER TO IMPLEMENT IT OR NOT.

I'M NOT MUCH FOR TEAM SPORTS, I GUESS BECAUSE I DON'T LIKE THAT THE FATE OF AN ENTIRE TEAM, CAN REST IN THE HANDS OF A CERTAIN PLAYER, OR GROUP OF PLAYERS.  IT JUST SUCKS, BECAUSE, THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE, GIVING 110% AND THE OTHERS ARE JUST KINDA EH.  LIKE BEING AT WORK, AND YOU'RE BUSTING ASS, BUT YOUR CO-WORKERS AREN'T PULLING THEIR WEIGHT.  WHICH, IS PROBABLY ANOTHER BIG REASON, WHY I DON'T LIKE TEAM SPORTS.  TEAMWORK IS A FUCKIN MYTH SOMETIMES.      -  925