Follow up to my previous thread about education

"Common sense, is not that common"

"Let he who would move the world first move himself" -Socrates

"Not having, is no excuse for not getting" - Sargeant Waters "A Soldier's Story"

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." - PLATO

"Never give advice; A wise man don't need it and a fool won't heed it."

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school"Albert Einstein

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something I can do".-- Edward Everett Hale

Super Bowl CHAMPS!!!!!

So 32 days ago, the SUPER BOWL came and went. The combatants were the UNDEFEATED and UNSTOPPABLE New England Patriots versus my Flawed, Incomprehensible New York Giants

The game for the first three quarters was not the most aesthetically pleasing one, unless you were a Giants fan. With each hurry of Brady, each sack, each incompletion, you began to feel more comfortable that perhaps we WERENT going to go down as the biggest super bowl losers of all time. In 2000, we already had a bad showing. FUCKING RAVENS!!!!

The 4th quarter came along and it began to hit me... MAYBE, JUST MAYBE... we could pull this off... then came the Mosss 4th quarter TD, orchestrated by the Tom Brady of old. My heart broke, no correction. My heart SHATTERED!!! Twas to good to be true it seemed. THEN CAME THE DRIVE...

Officially, anyone that KNOWS football knows that football teams belong to the QB...and in each qb's resume, those who go down in history have a MOMENT where they transcend an offensive play, a defensive scheme, a broken play, an audible. There is just this moment where nothing fazes them, and TWISM* occurs.

*TWISM is a phrase made popular by Shaquille O'Neal, and he received it from the movie SCARFACE. It succinctly stands for The World IS Mine. It comes at a point when the world is your oyster, and all one has to do is smell the aroma and SUCK out the juices.

Eli's escape from a sack that would have thwarted the Giants drive...David Tyree's catch that borders both improbable and impossible, the fade route TD that would eventually be enough to CLINCH the game and the championship. UNBELIEVABLE!!!

I wanted to wait for a while to make this post because I wanted it to sink in. I HONESTLY did not come into this season thinking we would win the super bowl. I came in thinking we would clinch a wild card and MAYBE make it to the divisional round. After the way the season went, that STILL remained my mindset. i KNEW we would beat the BUCS and EXPECTED a good showing against the 'Boys. After that WIN... I thought

-24 degree weather in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Looks like it will be two weeks of Brett Favre versus Tom Brady commentary. Then something happened. In between the tv shots of Tom Coughlins frozen and almost sickening face, and the up and down tempo of the game I started to believe.

Somewhere in between belief and disbelief there IS a certain way that you view things. Where you refuse to let yourself believe the impossible, but also refrain from being too realistic. That;s what this super bowl brought. When the clock ticked 0:00 and the clock read GIANT: 17; NE:14... I knew that not only history was made, but that for 364 days, my team will be the BEST in the world (metaphorically speaking).

I wanted to make sure that it was true... 32 days later Cinderella is STILL at the ball and it hasnt struck midnight... just 0:00