Dear NFL,

You were doing your part to bring people together and heal the world. That’s really how healing works. We heal by loving each other and leading by example; showing people what is possible when we love each other just as we are and not only recognize our differences but celebrate them and look at how we can use them together to make us jointly better than our separate parts. You were doing your part celebrating each other based on skills, talent and a joint vision without regard to color and religion.

You were doing your part and we were doing ours. We showed up cheering and groaning together to [sic] as one. We talked in the concession lines and commiserated and celebrated our team together. Did it ever occur to you that you and we were already a mix of backgrounds, races and religions? We were already living the dream you want, right in front of you.

Your desire to focus on division and anger has shattered what many people loved most about the sport. Football was really a metaphor for our ideal world –different backgrounds, talents, and histories actually made us one big team with one big goal – to do well, to win, TOGETHER.

You are asking us to abandon what we loved about togetherness and make choices of division. Will we stand with you? Will we stand with our flag? What does it mean? What does it mean if we buy a ticket or NFL gear? What does it mean if we don’t? It is the polar opposite of the easy togetherness we once loved in football.

It was simple – we loved you and you loved us – with all of our races, religions and different backgrounds. Simplicity in a crazy world was pretty awesome.

You dear NFL, have taken that. You have lost me here.

If you ever want to get off your knees and get to work on building bridges, let me know. I have found screaming about the problems in service marriages or even standing in silence in front of them, hasn’t healed even one of them. On the other hand, funding the Chris Kyle Frog Foundation, building a team and rolling up my sleeves to get in the trenches during my “off time” -volunteering there outside of my paying jobs – has proven to make real change.

You have a lot of strong guys, I am sure in the off season a lot of them could build some pretty big bridges if they care enough to do the hard work. That would involve getting off their knees and getting to work though. I can do it while I raise two kids as their only parent and work through the greatest pain of my life, let’s see if they can do it for the issues they say they care so much about.

Go Longhorns and Sic ‘Em …

Sincerely,
Taya

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Call for a National boycott of the NFL for Sunday November 12th, Veterans Day Weekend. Boycott all football telecast, all fans, all ticket holders, stay away from attending any games, let them play to empty stadiums. Pass this post along to all your friends and family. Honor our military, some of whom come home with the American Flag draped over their coffin. Continue with the weekly boycott of televised games.
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Today is the day that Turquoise Trail is having their Capture the Flag event in Albuquerque. Today’s weather is raining with thunder storms happening in the afternoon. So who’s going to this? Me and anyone that is brave enough to meet me @ SFH-D at 10:30. Oh well, I do have a rain suit.

Man, you’d think I have a gambling problem, 2 casinos in less than a week! Well, this is all HOG related business and they’re offering free food and door prizes! (You saw the free food, right?)

Yes, HOG related business. The Apache Nugget Casino is having an open house to promote their event capabilities and as the leader of a mighty motorcycle gang (read that as club, we’re not a gang) I get invited to things like this. This invite was triggered by a ride we’re taking to the Wild Horse Casino in Dulce NM on October 7.  We’re having a BIG ride to the Wild Horse that day and since it’s a fairly unknown casino, they are appreciating my effort.

I hope they don’t mind if I bring 20 of my closest friends with me today. I shot off an email to about 150 people to let them know about the free food. Since I ride with mostly older people, it seems like free food is very important to them. The funny thing is, they’ll spend more on gas to make the trip than it would cost them to eat out near home.

Peace