The Final Battle

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It was calm for a Championship Saturday with nervous anticipation all around. The cold cracked a little harder before the sun warm-up of the day. The field was set, lines were extra white waiting to be tore up amongst the boys wanting to play the game. The Sheboygan Badgers Vs. the Sheboygan Steelers was a battle of wills, both setting the bar high at 6-1 records coming into the game. The Steelers using a high powered offense balancing between run and pass was hard to stop, the Badgers using a run controlled offense blasting holes in the line for large gains but the last meeting between the two ended in a 8-6 win for the Badgers and only the best play will allow that to happen on this Saturday in October.

The coaches new that a early score would put control in the badgers hand and that plan was executed early with a QB keeper around the end for a 40 yard touchdown. The teams played even football the rest of the half. Pads were hitting, loud crunches with boys grunting with all their energy for the tackle.

The Badgers came out the second half and controlled it from the start, Marching down the field with power and grace looking at their opponent in the eyes and taking them head on. With the ball on the 1 yard line the question of what the badgers were going to run was answered with a power run right up the gut into the swarm of tacklers and coming out victoriously on the other side of the goal line,resulting in a 12-0 lead that the defense held onto for the rest of the game. As the boys jumped up and down with their league championship I was a little depressed that it was all over, boy what a team.

This season the Sheboygan badgers allowed only 30 points while putting up 104. 4 out of their last 5 games were shut outs and even had a game that allowed the opponents one first down the entire game.

Congrats Sheboygan Badgers, you sure were a team of winners.
Remember that winning isn't a right but rather a consequence of all the hard work put in.

Caught In a World of Nothing

I have been pretty quite about my lack of employment lately due to the fact that if I talk about it, It consumes me. I didn't like who I was becoming with all the stress.

A couple of years back I changed careers due to completing my degree in Organizational Administration. I found a job out of school that paid less than when I didn't have a diploma, a step back, yes but I had that piece of paper that would allow me to find something better. Something better came along but I got caught in a world of office politics and what was suppose to be my long term job turned into a 6 month "lets fuck over Paul" fuck fest.

So over the the last 8 months I have made a lot of good impressions but no progress in getting a job. That last fuck fest brings up the standard question, "but Paul it looks like you job hop"....yep I have been pegged as a job hopper and I have come to realize that with that stigma it is a kiss of death.

So with that I keep going to interviews and keep getting rejected and the longer it goes the more stress that weighs down. The holiday season is looming soon, not quite there yet but boy it hits quick. Halloween then 4 weeks to Thanksgiving, then 4 weeks to Christmas, then one week to New Years. How far we fall so quickly.

Ok, so enough of all that good stuff but one of the "stigma's" that I have is that I have experience in a lot of different areas (sales, training, HR, production..) but master of none. So I had to laugh at this mornings Dilbert.....Dilbert rocks!

We Are Team

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Thursday night football and it was the first sunny game we have played all year. Sheboygan Badgers at Oostburg, kick off was 7:00. Quickly the lights turned on as the sun was setting and the kids take the field. The game plan was to hit quick and hard, score early and often. From the first snap the Badgers owned the game, runs to the left again to the left then a quick hit to the right that went 40 yards for a touchdown. The whole game we controlled the line of scrimmage and blocked with intensity that lead to long runs, punt returns for touchdowns, smashed mouth football up the middle. The kids played hard and hit people quick and with a focus.

The defense was fast and quick to the ball not allowing the blocker to get his hands on them and gang tackling like they are suppose to. They allowed only 1 first down all night, never letting Oostburg past the 50 yard line. In the end the Badgers scored 34, Oostburg 0. It was as close to a perfect game as I have ever seen from 11 and 12 year olds. I was impressed.

Badgers 34, Oostburg 0

Badgers are 4-1 on the season and the road is paved forward.