IN RESPONSE TO AN NFL.COM ARTICLE ABOUT ROBERT GRIFFIN

IN RESPONSE TO AN NFL.COM ARTICLE ABOUT ROBERT GRIFFIN

This was VERY well written, I fully agree with your assessment of the situation.

May I just add that Griffin come to see the absolute necessity to work out his own HERO complex? Its so 2,000 years ago. Its not about one guy anymore. Its about a bunch of guys doing THIS together. Honor and Glory? Such a tired story... This story about a Glass Knee is cloaked in smoke and mirrors, so please understand it continues to develop. The prognosis for his complete return to GLORY is not too promising. The people who care about those things are becoming more and more the minority these days. These days I see others finding the fulfillment of far more fundamental needs to be of much greater valuable than Honor and Glory. Griffin allowed his brain washed obedience to place his talents/gift in harms way. He was the origin of that harm. This was a decision that harmed the chances of success for his fellow teammates. Since when did he begin to value his own importance to the extent that he forgot about his teammates. These guys fight in the trenches. They do his dirty work. They play really hurt all season. They have families, they have children. They also want to be able to experience success for their efforts. Since when has any man who placed his own needs above those of his teammates, been successful? He forgot this, and THE mysterious powers of cause and effect bitch slapped his ass in hopes of waking him up, getting him off the quest for HONOR AND GLORY. Griffin would always be a highly motivated player with great ability but when he places these qualities in care of Honor And Glory, they fade out as fast as they came. His EGO, which convinced him that he is BEST option, even on one leg, can be affected. He can place those very same qualities in the hands of Love and Truth. He could look at himself as a long term commitment to really doing something the world would remember him by, IF HE CHOSE TO. But men trying to cash in quickly can hardly be blamed. THEY KNOW THEY ARE CANNON FODDER. They know they are living a gamble to keep themselves in tact long enough to get that BIG Contract. I would be very interested to see the exact number of men who actually make it to that point. 10%? I don't know. I follow the Cowboys and I have seen lots of guys get drafted, hurt a couple of times and then traded away before they got the Honor and the Glory, or in RING OF HONOR as it is called in Dallas.. Many guys only play a couple of years with a Hero's mentality similar to Griffin's. Is this all they care about? Getting theirs and getting out? There is NOTHING wrong with this this mentality, but just know that this will continue. Men will continue to hurt each other for a chance at Honor and Glory. Can Griffin connect to the Power he is in possesses of and use it to modernize the game of football beyond an archaic barbarianism which takes a heavy toll on the bodies and minds of HIS FELLOW WARRIORS? , Or will he play right into the Kingdom and CHAMPION mentality that KEEPS Griffin a Fools Savior and the rest of us too scared to even try? He can learn from Randall Cunningham as well as Mike Vick. Shoot, even Cam Newton, he learned quick. His was no "Sophomore slump". He saw that he was not Superman and Caught On and saw clearly where he was going to end up. He made a business decision to buy time while more guys like Griffin, Wilson and Luck arrive to so these guys could change the game together. Do something different. He could bring the game into a faster, less violent and more entertaining version which could be more dynamic and balanced. He could do all these things in a big way or he could get hurt before the total regeneration of Modern Day Mans Professional Football culminates. This may take 20 years but the game will trend away from the level of violence which still prevails, albeit a in a different way then 50 years ago. People need to understand that the game has sped up tremendously, while the capacity for sustaining trauma is far less then it was even 50 years ago. These are all collision injuries. Bodies collide. The way the game is right now is not sustainable. As the game speeds up, even greater the damage will be incurred from those collisions. Guys, like cars, will get wiped off the map. Guys are not built to take the beatings they once could endure. Griffin needs to acknowledge this fact in his own way. This is a modern day version of the Ruling Families which Warred against one another for centuries in the name of honor and glory TOO! Their soldiers died on battlefields that began in the minds of These ruling families. They would give their life to die for their KING. This day that fighting instinct plays out in business and professional sports. These Ruling Families did a great job building the games foundation and we can make it even more fulfilling. Every one loves a sacrifice such as would be offered when The Gladiators would take their crash course with mortality in the Roman Colosseum. Those men died too. They sacrificed their life. That's easy. Its much mare challenging to make a sacrifice, to compromise. To stay in the game and work with others. I don't know if Griffin has grown tired of sacrificing his gifts and squandering his OPPORTUNITY to really be used as a vehicle for change. These days the instinct of man has become tamed to the extent that we now sacrifice our bodies more so then our life. The modern day Gladiator We sacrifice our knees or our concussed brain drives us to commit suicide. What a tragedy you may say to yourself. Yes this is a tragedy indeed but not nearly as tragic as a 18 year old private who lost all his limbs fighting in a war over oil. This kid and so many others never had a chance to live life. Seau had 40 years of quality life, and 20 years as a Pro. In the Military he would have been called a lifer. His life's purpose could have been a personal crusade to bring awareness to the effects of trauma on the brain. Perhaps that is why he was so gifted and successful. Perhaps he was doing this all to show guys like Griffin, the gravity of the situation. Perhaps Griffin, in his year off, can see the absolute value of doing everything within his power to work with others such as Seau's family, to UPDATE this sport. Its NOT broken, We have simply outgrown the way it is still being played. Robert, Be aware that this is a path that is available to you if you choose to Drop the Honor and Glory act and start to really create a mastermind of men working together. Do it man. You know where the other path goes. It ends with you traded to The Browns as a second shelf backup with two hobbled knees. We cannot save you from yourself.