blog statement...

i will be back on in a few days,after re-setting my blog settings... just have to check if it is being given to my father... may take a few minutes,or days...

a simple great wide receiver....

career numbers for Calvin Johnson:731 receptions;11,619 yards,83 touchdowns(all Lions' franchise records),seven 1,000 yard receiving seasons(in nine seasons)... honestly,if he had single coverage on him,he "owed" you,and even double and triple coverage REALLY did not mean he was not open for a pass... he made a catch last year,against the Minnesota Vikings for a touchdown,and he was covered by three defenders... UNBELIEVABLE!!!!! he changed the NFL with the Calvin Johnson rule "in the process" rule,when as he caught a game winning touchdown pass against DA BEARS,but he spun the football on the ground,after he caught the pass,and the referees thought he dropped the football,even though it was obvious still to me that he caught the football,that day...

correction...

in a blogpost talking about the retirement of a classy Calvin Johnson,i called him Charles... oops,i corrected that post... again,Calvin,have a great life,and personally i will miss watching you catch passes,PERIOD!!!!

Lions,Vikings,and DA BEARS all suck,oh my... (paraphrasing the Wizard of Oz)...

on this day,the NFC North Division just became a two team horse race for the division title,between the Packers and the Minnesota Vikings... i hate to admit,like i said for years with a four time division champion(Packers),now the division goes through Minnesota,for now... with the retirement of the classy Calvin Johnson,now the Lions,Vikings,and DA BEARS all suck,really suck!!!!!!

a classy person says goodbye to the NFL...

a shocking announcement,and a major shock to the Detroit Lions,wide receiver Calvin Johnson announced his retirement after nine seasons in the NFL... a true classy person,and a classic tough guy(i mean battling injury,and saying little about that)... Megatron was probably the best wide receiver the Lions had,in their team history... when he played for the Lions against the Packers,he was option one,one a,one b,and one c,on offense,and i had deep everlasting respect for his play... he holds the all-time NFL single season receiving yardage total with nearly 2,000 yards,breaking a Jerry Rice record,in the process... that says a lot about him... he is a future Hall of Fame member in my book...

anniversary of a classic fight...

forty five years ago today,Muhammad Ali fought Joe Frazier in Madison Square Garden in their first fight of three fights... Frazier knocked down Ali,in fifteenth round,and won an unanimous decision... i saw the fight live at the old Alhambra Theatre,closed-circuit... what a fight!!!!

a time to remember...

i have been thinking about a lot of things,lately,and some of the things i have written about,and i am happy about what i have written,but there are some things that i will not write about,at all... not many things,but just a few things... in my life i have met my share of really bad people... in fact,to survive through it all,i became friends with them...  however,not too many of them... i have tried to be nice to people,but again,i have been stabbed in the back by some people,who after stabbing me in the back,they badmouthed me... those were the people that i simply got even with;by getting so angry with them that i refused to talk to them,again... i told one person that if i EVER saw him,again,he was dogmeat... i said it sternly,softly,and an edge to my voice that he knew that i was deadly serious... at last report,he moved out of state to avoid yours truly... i simply learned a very long time ago not to take any crap from those people... to tell you the absolute truth,i am not a nice guy,and someone not to mess with,because i have been very hurt by people who were supposed to be friends,and i simply became harder than diamonds in my overall attitude... being "on the road" for nearly a decade turned me that way,because i simply had to survive that "personal hell",and yet sometimes i remember that time... a couple of days ago,i saw this fellow traveler "on the road",who i simply walked up to him,gave him a dollar,and started to walk away,but he started to talk about what is happening to him... i stopped,just listened to him,and talked to him in response,then told him that i would be right back,so i went to a store,bought something,and got extra change(a twenty),and simply handed him the money... on the way home,i saw him walk away,gave a simple silent prayer,and i really remember being in the same place that he was,so i helped him... i do not do it often,but i do it without comment,or having him/her know my name... that is what people should do,but unfortunately,people are stuck up on self,or have no time to be nice... to those people,i say simply:how heartless!!!!