Farewell Football

Dear football,

As my time with you slowly reaches its end I just wanted to thank you for always being there. I will miss you but you have given me so many memories that will last with me for the rest of my life. You have taught me a lot of things and I hope that I can keep in contact with you even though my playing days are nearing the end.

                I still remember running routes in my front yard with my father. My father is the reason I love football so much. He introduced me to the game before I can even remember. There are pictures of me when I am just a baby with a football in my hands. He played in high school and has been a hard core Chief fan his whole life. But my father isn’t trying to live his dreams through me which I appreciate seeing all things parents that pressure their child into doing something they don’t like.

                Tomorrow we have a game against Cedar Falls, who is pretty good this year. I still think that we can win this game but it is hard to think about it being my last game ever. Even if my career is over tomorrow I still have to be thankful that I made it through my whole life without getting injured. I will still be a huge fan even though I won’t be playing. I will still be watching every Saturday and Sunday and hopefully I will watch my son play under the lights on Fridays.

                You have taught me a lot of valuable things throughout my time with you. I hope to put the things you taught me to the test once I get out in the real world. I must thank you for all you have done for me. Who knows where I would be without you. You have kept me from trouble and give me something to look forward to. I know I will miss you but I have enough memories to last a life time.

                You have also connected me with the friends I will hopeful maintain a relationship for the rest of our lives. I have learned how you have to play as a team or you don’t stand a chance. You could have the athletes in the world and if they don’t play as a team they won’t be any good.

                So this is my farewell letter to you football, I want to thank you for what you have done for me and I hope you make it last as long as possible for me and my team mates.

Sincerely,

Alex Boomershine

Annie

                Ever since school started I have been dealing with someone in my 5^th hour. My first impression was good, plus I have heard about the person before just never actually met them. But as we get more comfortable with each other this person kept getting meaner and meaner. I am talking about Annie.

                Annie is a nice girl with a strange personality; she is very funny and outgoing. Annie is the person that introduced me to Hanna (see older blog post). Annie always can make me laugh I don’t know why either. Something about her personality is just funny. She is always happy and nice to others. Even though she is nice, she also has a very mean side. She is a bully to me and even though it’s always on the fun side and she is rarely serious she is still a bully and needs to stop. We are planning on throwing a party for her birthday so if you want to come just contact me or Annie.

                Annie, I just finished my blog about you. I hope it was all you ever wanted. But really stop being mean to me.

Ninja Turtles

Since Halloween falls on Wednesday this year it was celebrated a little early. I haven’t dressed up for Halloween since probably 5^th grade but I figured I would this year for a party. I didn’t have any idea what I was going to be.

One of my friends asked if I wanted to be a ninja turtle with him and I said sure. I agreed to be a ninja only if I could be the orange one. We all agreed to colors but we didn’t actually go get the costumes until the last day possible. We went to the mall and we looked for a backpack that came with the four masks but the backpack was forty dollars so we split it and one person got to wear the backpack. While we were looking for the backpack I came across a sweet bro tank that was a ninja turtle with an orange belt. Even though I wasn’t planning on getting anything I fell in love with it and bought it.

                I ended up spending thirty-two dollars on my costume which didn’t really bother me since I feel like I will randomly have the urge to wear the mask again. I got a lot of compliments on my costume. My friends and I all got compliments for our awesome costumes.

Hanna

                Recently I have been blessed with a new friendship. I met her a week ago while celebrating my birthday. She came to the house and we started talking. We only talked for about 30 minutes but it was enough. She is a cool and funny girl. This blog post is about Hanna.

                Her older sister is friends with my older sister but Hanna and I have never known each other. I always heard her name and seen her in the hallways but I never actually talked to her. That is until the day before my birthday. I said hi and introduced myself.  We talked about random things then I somehow talked her into doing something that was hilarious, well at least I think it was funny.              

                Then a week past and I didn’t talk to her but I didn’t know who to give it to and someone suggested that I give it to Hanna. I didn’t see anything wrong with that so I did and she wore it to school. Then I had to get my jersey back but didn’t know how to contact her. So I had to send her a direct message via Twitter asking her for my jersey back. But right after I asked for my jersey back I realized that I didn’t really need it back so I decided to see if she wanted to wear it the next week. And she said she would.

                That gets me back to now, when I asked her what to blog about and she said to blog about the word poop. After finding out why she said that I decided to blog about my favorite word. Then I asked her what to blog about again and she said me so I said ok I will try. Now I am blogging about her just because she told me to. This was a lot harder than I thought it would be but I got it done and I am done blogging. So there you go Hanna.

AWK

                Every one has favorites. Favorite colors, things, songs, shows, etc. But you rarely hear any one talk about their favorite word. Personally my favorite word is awkward. I don’t really know why but I love it. Maybe it the fascination I find in awkward situations or the way it rolls off the tongue. Either way it is an awesome word.

                I tend to over use the word awkward a lot, I don’t try to it’s just the first thing that pops in my head so I say it. Another cool thing about the word awkward is how I can shorten it and it still sounds awesome. If I ever encounter an awkward situation I will just say “awk” instead of the long version. It’s cool because people still understand what I’m saying without having to add that extra syllable. Another word that I over use way to much is swag.  I use swag due to how cliché it became when all the rappers starting say swag and how much of it they had. So now I use it to poke fun at all the people that have so much swag. Instead of saying cool I just tend to yell swag and if something bad happens I just yell not swag.

                Since we are on the topics of words I was reminded with the trick of just saying a word out loud for a long time until the word doesn’t even sound like a word anymore. Which makes me think of the creation of words, like how does someone put letters together and make sounds that mean something? I know these are random thoughts but I cannot just sit down and blog about something so I’m just writing about my thoughts.

                So think what your favorite word is and why.

Falling Leaves

                The freshness is in the air and the leaves are on the ground. Weekends are filled with football. Sweatshirts are a must in the mornings. Yep its fall, the foreplay before the greatest season, winter. Fall is just a baby step to help people transfer from the blistering hot summers we have to the ridiculously freezing winters we have. Like it or not fall is awesome.

                First of all fall is beautiful. The leaves slowly changing colors every day until the finally reach the limit and begin to fall one by one leaving the tree naked. Fall also brings majestic sunsets at the end of each fantastic day. Fall is the best time of the year for bonfires. Every one cuddling around the fire trying to stay warm, maybe making some s’mores to snack on in the brisk evening.

                Next you have football. It’s impossible to get bored in the weekends when there are football games on. Waking up late and watching football is the best way to spend your weekends, unless your team gets demolished. Luck for me the Chiefs have a bye week so I don’t have to worry about that this week. Even if you aren’t a huge sports fan you could always watch some football.

                But my favorite part about fall has to be the fact that winter comes right after. So this season is just transition time. To get used to wear jeans and sweatshirts 95% of the time. Knowing that 40 degrees won’t be that could in a few weeks when it hits negative numbers and you can’t go outside without gloves. So even though it isn’t my favorite season it leads the way for my favorite season so I must give credit to Fall.

Walking Dead

                Yesterday while I was just chilling flipping through the channels I saw that The Walking Dead was on so I click on it and I saw that it was the first ever episode  and that there was a marathon. I know I’m probably a little late knowing about this show but I don’t have Netflix and I don’t like starting to watch series in the middle of a season so I never watched it before but I’m glad I did.

                If you have never seen it, it is about the world during a zombie apocalypse. Which I think would be fun to live in. Honestly I think I would enjoy living during the zombie apocalypse. Living in a place that has no rules or anything, even though you have the constant threat of being eaten by zombies. The hardest part about the apocalypse would be losing people, like family or friends. But it’s just like life now, people are going to die it’s just a little different way of death. Even though I would want to live in the zombie apocalypse I don’t think that it can happen. I think it is impossible that dead people can come back alive and eat people. And even if people can become zombies I don’t think that they would be able to take over like they do in the movies.

                Back to the Walking Dead, if you haven’t seen it watch it and become addicted. The new season is starting up on the 15^th and I can’t wait to see it. I promise that you will want to keep watching and watching.

Quinn in KC

                Today my 1-4 Kansas City Chiefs play the 1-3 Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I hope the Chiefs can pull this one off even with their backup quarterback, Brady Quinn. I think that the Chiefs will win just because of Jamaal Charles who will probably run for 200 yards against the Buccaneers defense. I hope Quinn does good things though so that when Matt Cassell recovers from his concussion that he received last Sunday against the Ravens, he won’t be the starter again. I absolutely hate Cassell and think he is the worst quarterback in the league and only plays due to his connection with the big shot owners.

                If the Chiefs lose today I will probably lose all faith in a playoff chance even though it would still be possible. If the Chiefs have solid quarterback play they could be a very good team but I don’t think that will happen with Quinn in even though I do think he is a better quarterback than Cassell. The Chiefs have the best running back in the league, Jamaal Charles and one of the better defenses in the league that is lead with very young talent so I will say, even though I have been saying it forever that the Chiefs could be Super Bowl contenders in upcoming seasons.

                The Chief fan base was brutally attacked by the media after Chief fans cheered when Cassell received his concussion. Yes, they shouldn’t do it but it is hard to not be happy when someone that you dislike and think is bad gets hurt. I honestly cheered and I was in my house so I can only imagine what I would have said if I was there. After the game the Chiefs right tackle for the Chiefs was interviewed and he freaked out about the incident which really caused the drama in the media. What the big shot commentators don’t understand is how the Chiefs fans see Cassell. We see him as the worst quarterback in the league and he shouldn’t even be allowed to play. But we will see if Quinn can do any better today.

18 Already

              It’s finally October 14^th, which means I’m finally 18 years old. I consider this a pretty important land mark in my life. It changes my social status from a little boy who can’t make his own decision to a man that can start controlling his life.

                I mean it’s cool to be 18 but there is a bad thing about it, I can get arrested. I mean I’m not doing anything to get arrested but if I get caught in the wrong place or wrong time the officers don’t have to call my parents. They could just cuff me and put me in the back of a patrol car. I don’t think that one con comes close to all the pros. But one thing that bothers me is that yeah I can go buy cigarettes and cigars but I can’t purchase alcohol. So my brain isn’t mature enough to drink but I am old enough to get addicted to the worst drug in America, while they just take my money and don’t care.

  This particular birthday, like the actually day, will be a pretty boring day, but that is fine with me because my friends and I celebrated last night. My day will consist of homework (blogging) and watching some football. I can’t complain especially because it is rainy Sunday. Even though it is still my birthday I’m going to say that I had a great birthday weekend. It started Friday night when we destroyed Hempstead, which involved me scoring two touchdowns. That was actually pretty special to me because it was senior night and one of the last times I will ever play football. Then onto Saturday which consisted of me chilling and flipping between college football and The Walking Dead, which had a marathon. I personally enjoy days like that, where I can just relax and not worry about anything. But later the night I met up with some of my friends and celebrated my birthday which was really fun. Then onto Sunday, my actually day of birth, which will consist of absolutely nothing special. I will do what I usually do but be doing it as an 18 year old.

Chiefs v. Ravens

                It’s the 5^th week in the NFL and the Chiefs don’t look like they will get another when to increase their season to 2-3 but that doesn’t bother me as long as the Chiefs show improvement. As long as the Chiefs show some good things.

                The main thing I want to see is if Matt Cassel can compose himself and play good against the vicious Raven defense. Cassel, in my opinion is the worst quarterback in the league. He should have it easy because he has the best running back in the league behind him but even with that luxury he still can’t lead the Chiefs to victories. Cassel only targets Bowe, who is a good receiver but you can’t throw the ball to one person and be successful no matter how good the receiver is. I hope to see Cassel prove that he is a decent QB and spread the ball around to all the weapons the Chiefs have.

                I also want to see Jamaal Charles have a big game against a good defense. I know Charles has the talent to thrash any defense but I want to see it actually happen. Even if he doesn’t have a huge game he needs to at least be a distraction for the Chiefs and help open up the passing game for Cassel. I think the Chiefs are going to rely on Charles a lot which isn’t a bad idea, I mean he is the leading rusher in the NFL but the Ravens defense will also be targeting Charles knowing that Cassel can’s tear them apart like some  of the other quarterbacks in the league.

                The last thing I want to see is the Chiefs defense step it up and hold the Ravens to as little as possible. The saying “defense wins championships” may seem a bit cliché but it is also so true. If a team can hold a team to two touchdowns they will win the game. I hope the Chiefs young defense can stop the Ravens offense, which is pretty good with Ray Rice at running back and Joe Flacco at quarterback. The chiefs have the talent to stop the Ravens but they have to play their best to pull this one out.

                I hope the Chiefs win but I won’t be devastated if they lose. I hope to see improvements by everyone and maybe, just maybe they can pull the W out from today’s game.

Movie Madness

                I don’t tend to watch too many movies unless someone says it is a “have to watch” movie but last summer when I had HBO and Starz in my basement I watched a lot more movies than any human should.

                After football workouts I would get home early and after I showered there wasn’t anything to do so I would go to my basement and look at what’s on TV. And I would usually find something entertaining in the movies. It seemed like every other day the movie Inception was on. And every time I saw that Inception was on, no matter if it was the beginning or end I would watch it. And I fell in love with it. It is the best movie I have ever seen. The ending to the movie may bother some people, the ones that have to know what happens, but not me. I think that that is the best ending of a movie I have ever seen. Making you decide what happened and not knowing the actual ending.

                Also the story line is so unique and original that it would be hard to make a movie like it. I think that Inception would be the coolest thing to live in real life. I would love to be my own architect in dreams and design my own word to visit every time I am dreaming. Even though there are some dangers in living in your dreams but I think the pros out shine the cons.

                I also watched Avatar more than a normal human should. I think being an Avatar driver would be the coolest thing ever. Controlling something with no personal risk of injury. Even though in the movie the drivers have a mission to accomplish I think it would be fun to just be able to control your Avatar for fun and do whatever you want to. The best part about Avatar is that they are working on a Avatar 2 which isn’t supposed to come out until 2016 which is a good thing if you ask me because that means they are putting a lot of work into which just excites me. I can’t wait to see what they can do in the next Avatar.

                So even though I don’t watch a lot of movies the ones I do watch are enough for me. And I hope that more movies come out that are like the two I talked about.

Cold Weather

It’s finally that time of the year, sweatshirt weather. Finally we get to put the shorts away and move on to jeans and sweat pants.  Even though it is a little too cold for early October but I take this over the mid 90’s that we get in the summer.

I don’t know where my love for the cold comes from but I have had it for a while, always begging for the winter weather to come earlier and earlier. Maybe it’s the memories I have of winter and all of the activities I used to do when I was smaller. When I was little I loved to be outside in the cold. Whether it was helping my parents shovel the drive way or just playing outside building forts and snowmen. Winter also brings Christmas with it, my favorite holiday ever, waking up early to go downstairs and open all of my presents. Looking out the window and seeing nothing but snow just brings a warm feeling to me.

Even though the cold can be a hardship, like Friday night when we had to play a football in the 30’s when it still should be in at least the 50’s. Even though I played enough to maintain my warmness it was still a little too cold for a football game. But on the other hand I much rather be cold at a game than be dying of heat exhaustion and needing a drink every second to replenish all of the sweat you are losing.  But for the rest of the season we will have to deal with these frigid temperatures. Which I don’t mind too much because personally I think I play better in the cold.

No matter what this is still my favorite part of the year and I wish it last longer than it does even though it tends to drag on a little long for most people’s preferences. So I will start cherishing these days as they slowly pass until the last snow melted and the smell of spring is back in the air. But until then I will love everyday.