"Professional Football". Why Don't Players Act Like It?

Well, college and pro-football are upon us and I am glad for several reasons - Fall Season, cooler weather and watching our favorite teams.  My wife Carey, graduated from FSU, however we now live "Between The Hedges" in North Ga.!

Today we are going to focus on "Professional Football".  During Labor Day weekend my brother Erik told me that if he was a college football coach that he would tell his players;  When you score in the end-zone, act like you have been there before and not a prima-donna.  Further more the only excessive celebration should occur at the end of the game when you have won!


This got me thinking about Humility or Meekness and the lack of it today.  Whatever your job was or is, did you jump up and down, come up with a special dance or yell to your coworkers to look at you and what you did?  This was or is what you get paid to do!  Others should be "tooting our horn" like the crowd in the stands and your fellow players - NOT YOURSELF!


Don't imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he won't be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who's always telling you that, of course, he's nobody. Probably all you'll think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him. If you do dislike him, it will be because you feel a bit envious of anyone who seems to enjoy life so easily. He won't be thinking about himself at all. There I must stop. If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you're not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed. --C.S. Lewis


A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility.-- D. L. Moody

Just a thought...
ernie