Grit, Guts, & Glorious Winners

Hello, readers from the future.

As we sit here, we hear of many problems. There’s war, poverty, depression, and the ever lurking menace of communism staring our world in the face every single second of every single day.  However, those topics stand within the realm of other men; philosophers, perhaps. We are not here to speak exclusively on those topics.

No, we are here to talk about sports.

We will talk of the great ball diamond, of the hulking men whom battle over the pigskin, of the glorious contest for the ever elusive basket.  We might talk about other things that interest us, at times, but sport is our raison d’être here.

However, we may go about things in a manner that curves and winds differently.

Others might mention grit and guts while describing the players of the games, they will speak of the intangibles. That is very well. We may slide into that area. We apologize in advance. However, our writing will probably feature numbers more prominently than descriptions of character.

We do not lean this way because we consider ourselves experts of any sort. No, we are simple fans of this game. Like many others, we watch the games on our televisions, celebrate the success and victory of teams we love, and cringe at season ending blows. We are fans, indeed; fans who enjoy, in addition to the subjective qualities, the objective side of the game.

As such, we pledge that we will resist, so much as we can, the usage of the term “has so much fun playing out there.” We, instead, will endeavor towards the usage of statistics in our writing.

It will be a battle, as we intend to talk about Brett Favre tomorrow.