Whatever else you do this weekend, tune in for at least a quarter of the annual Army v. Navy football classic. If you don’t watch sports anymore because of chest thumping, self serving, scumbags like Terrell Owens, or doped up cheaters like Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa and Mark McGuire, or the criminal element that populates most collegiate and professional sport – less NASCAR, this is the game for you. Sit down and watch how real men, with real obligations, play the game. If you have youngsters playing sports, any sport, this should be a mandatory lesson in sportsmanship, team play and life for them. No one knows where our war on terror will lead us. Some of the men on the field and in the stands tomorrow may well make their last stand before next year’s kick off. They know it. That knowledge will not lessen their enthusiasm, curb their commitment or prevent them from stepping up to take their turn on the line. Other football teams and their alumni fight for BCS bowl births. The men in tomorrow’s game and their alumni have fought and are fighting for something much more important. These men of honor and their classic game should serve to put all of sport into the proper perspective.
GO NAVY!
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